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DEFINITION: To assert your right-of-way in traffic, even when it's stupidly dangerous to do so.
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Divinerightofway
Created by: IanArcher
Pronunciation:
Sentence: "dammit, it's my divinerightofway, and i'm going to claim it -- or die trying!"
Etymology: a bit kludgy, but a mixture of "divine right" and "right of way"
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"
Steercrazy
Created by: maxxy
Pronunciation: STEER-kray-zee
Sentence: Jim went steercrazy, cutting off a Hummer, two semis and a police car -- but at least he got the last parking space at the drivers license bureau lot.
Etymology: steering + stir-crazy
Accinine
Created by: ubgrud
Pronunciation: ax-see-nine
Sentence: He accinined across 4 lanes of traffic.
Etymology: accident + assinine
Suveer
Created by: Sissyphus
Pronunciation: S U veer
Sentence: The bicycle was technically in the right hand lane, but I needed to turn immediately so I just SUVeered around the corner and hoped he had decent brakes.
Etymology:
Suidrive
Created by: FionaMin
Pronunciation: su-ih-drive
Sentence: Billy decided to suidrive in order to get in front of that Mack truck. Hey, his car fit into that 4 foot space, right?
Etymology: Suicide + drive
Carikazi
Created by: Ahoytheship
Pronunciation: car-i-ka-zee
Sentence: The man became a total carikazi after trying to deal with Thanksgiving traffic.
Etymology: car+kamikaze
Drivenesia
Created by: Orlandin
Pronunciation: Drive-nesia
Sentence: Do you remember how to drive or do you have drivenesia?
Etymology: Amnesia.
Jeopardefy
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: /j&-'por-d&-"fI/
Sentence: Look both ways before crossing even one-way streets. To do otherwise is just jeopardifying yourself.
Etymology: From jeopardy + defy