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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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Contrafict
Created by: Wiserhinoceros
Pronunciation: CON-tra-fict
Sentence: He regularly contraficted driving against the traffic as if in contradiction to the rules of the road.
Etymology: Contra (against). fict (unreal). A conflation of contradict, traffic and fiction..
Coupedetat
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: coop/day/tah
Sentence: He instituted a coupedetat on a north bound road by declaring it a south bound route from here on.
Etymology: coup d'etat + coupe
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COMMENTS:
Coupe, there it is... hey, hey, hey! - Kyoti, 2007-07-17: 15:45:00
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Nervyswerve
Created by: mplsbohemian
Pronunciation: NURV-ee-swurv
Sentence: Alex nervyswerved through rush-hour traffic to avoid being late to his girlfriend's house *again*.
Etymology: nervy + swerve
Motormortal
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: mote-r-more-tal
Sentence: Ken motormortalled through the garage driving like a mad man in Barbie's massive party camper, squashing all of her plastic flowers along the way to GI Joe's tent in the woods.
Etymology: motor (drive) + mortal (deadly)
Wheelstup
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: Wheel + stup or stoop(depending on the variety of English you speak)
Sentence: If you're a passenger in a car driven by a wheelstup-insist on your rites!
Etymology: Wheel+ stup:a backformation of stupidity
Termimotor
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: tur-mih-moh-tur
Sentence: As he began to termimotor down the road, he came to the conclusion that the rest of the driving public were idiots.
Etymology: The Terminator, motor
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COMMENTS:
hehehe - galwaywegian, 2007-07-17: 07:18:00
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Driveritis
Created by: r0b0tj0n3z
Pronunciation: dry-ver-ight-iss
Sentence: Steve has driveritis tendencies
Etymology: driver, tendonitis?
Roadstupidity
Created by: leaffan001
Pronunciation: ro-od-stu-pid-i-te
Sentence: driving stupidly even though you think it is right
Etymology: comes from the word roadrage
Deloreanofgrandeur
Created by: jadenguy
Pronunciation: de lo ree an of gran dyur
Sentence: "So I say to Julian, I say, ‘I know we don’t have much time, but we aren’t going to travel through it; lay of this DeLorean of grandeur! We’ve been honked at thrice!’” Vincent stroked Amanda’s hair while taking a pause. “He gets this look in his eye that I can’t begin to describe it!”
Etymology: delorean + delusion of grandure.
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COMMENTS:
daaang that was late. sorry reader(s?)! - jadenguy, 2007-07-17: 16:51:00
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Comments:
Osomatic - 2007-07-17: 00:40:00
Wreckspect
Osomatic - 2007-07-17: 00:44:00
Eeek! I wasn't paying attention and I put my word in the wrong place - could you delete it for me, oh Mightiest of Verbotomists?
Osomatic - 2007-07-17: 00:44:00
Er... and the comment asking you to delete it. And, heh, this one too. I think I'm caught up now.
rikboyee - 2007-07-17: 01:00:00
aaahh...a bit of boxlexia i see
Kyoti - 2007-07-17: 11:12:00
La pequeña caja divertida.
MisUndrstd - 2007-07-17: 12:32:00
Yeah what Kyoti said!
Girljenta2006 - 2007-07-22: 11:27:00
Hi