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DEFINITION: To assert your right-of-way in traffic, even when it's stupidly dangerous to do so.
Verboticisms
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Roadreign
Created by: allwise
Pronunciation: road-rein
Sentence: The motorway quickly filled with a massive chain-collision as every man claimed their roadreign with discredit to the crash in front.
Etymology: from roadrage - the missconception that everyone else on the road are assholes, and reing - ruling a dominion.
Assdrive
Created by: kevinrio
Pronunciation: Ass Drive
Sentence: I am the best assdriver ever!
Etymology: Assertive driving or driving like an ass
Soccermomniac
Created by: dstorm78
Pronunciation: Socker-Mom-Nee-Ak
Sentence: The roads are no longer safe with all these soccermomniacs taking over with their huge SUVs and the total disregard for the other drivers on the road.
Etymology: A mix of soccer-moms (characterized by their big cars and disregard for anyone other than a member of their family) and a maniac, often related to the word soccer-mom, but more importantly related to one who is a driving maniac, road hog.
Stubmerge
Created by: sodium
Pronunciation: stub-murj
Sentence: When the two lanes became one, Harold obstinately stubmerged right into the middle of a pack of motorcycles.
Etymology: stubborn + merge to form a word similar to submerge
Wrongofway
Created by: bondfool
Pronunciation: rong-ov-way
Sentence: too many people these days think they can just take the wrong-of-way whenever they feel like it.
Etymology: a play on the words right of way
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COMMENTS:
Just so we're clear, I created wrongofway before bondfool. Not that it's terribly difficult to conceive, but just so we're clear... - Javeson1, 2007-01-08: 13:48:00
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Coupedetat
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: coop/deh/tah
Sentence: He instituted a coupedetat on a north bound road declaring it a south bound route from here on.
Etymology: coup d'etat + coupe
Rightrage
Created by: mdschermer
Pronunciation: RīT-rāj
Sentence: By some severe rightraging, he managed to make his Beetle grow the size of a roadtrain - in his head.
Etymology: "Right-of-way" + "roadrage"
Carageous
Created by: fonka99
Pronunciation: car-a-geous
Sentence: Peregrine stamped his foot on the accelarator and carageously overtook the truck, despite the thick fog.
Etymology: From car and courageous
Angautomable
Created by: currentlyinsolitude
Pronunciation: ang-graw-toe-maw-bull
Sentence: He was angautomable because he was late to work
Etymology: German
