Verboticism: Reverbermate
DEFINITION: v. To drive around in your car with the widows down and stereo blaring. n. The sounds emanating from the suped-up vehicles driven by strutting human males as they participate their annual spring mating rituals.
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Boganvilla
Created by: readerwriter
Pronunciation: boh-guhn-vee-yuh
Sentence: It was Spring and everything was blooming and booming, including the boganvilla, those townie-boy-racers with their staymen and pistols by their sides, showing off the power of their pedals.
Etymology: Playing on BOUGANVILLIA, the flowering plant native to the Southern climes. Combing BOGAN, a boy racer from Down Under + VILLA, Spanish for TOWN
Swaggeride
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: SWAG-er-ryd
Sentence: Speedball, whose real name was Randy, wanted folks to think he was macho and virile though he felt very insecure about his looks and his size, so his way of presenting himself as a somebody was to tool around town in his very expensive swaggerride, a fast, loud and flashy sports car with a massive and very loud stereo system.
Etymology: blend of 'swagger' (To walk or conduct oneself with an insolent or arrogant air; strut) and 'ride', a slang term for an automobile
Testosteracket
Created by: mrskellyscl
Pronunciation: test-oster-ackit
Sentence: In the spring, young human males, wanting to advertise their prowess and improve their chances of successfully attracting females, will compete for dominance with other males by creating the most impressive testosteracket with their hoopdies.
Etymology: testosterone (male hormone) racket (unpleasant noise)
Blarieoh
Created by: abrakadeborah
Pronunciation: blare-e-oh
Sentence: You could always tell when Billy Boombastic was in the neighborhood... his boom,boom blarieoh was turned wide open for all to hear.
Etymology: Blare - to sound loudly and harshly. Oh! - an exclamation expressive of surprise pain pleasure etc.
Carboating
Created by: RightOnTheWin
Pronunciation: Unnecessary
Sentence: When even birds start complaining about the volume of your music, that’s when you know to stop carboating.
Etymology: Car (A vehicle used for transportation on wheels) + Showboating (To behave in a conspicuous or ostentatious manner)
Auditoryseasonalsubbooming
Created by: abrakadeborah
Pronunciation: Aw-di-tor-e-sea-son-nail-sub-boom-ing
Sentence: Josh had just finished building & installing his dual 12" sub cabinets and mega watt amplifier for his yellow Honda in time for Spring.The first warm day of Spring he cruised around the neighborhood with his music blaring and his windows down...trying to attract the cheerleaders practicing at his school. Everyone within a 2 mile radius knew Josh was coming down the street in his "auditoryseasonalsubbooming" Honda. The sidewalks and streets vibrated as his trunk was rattling and the speakerbox was vibrating the tag,making it sound like aluminum cans in a bag... He was too cool for school cruising around listening to his new CD. Little does Josh realize his days of "auditoryseasonalsubbooming" with those high decibels will be causing him to lose his hearing early...Boom! Boom! Boom!
Etymology: Auditory;of or relating to the process of hearing. Seasonal;A particular season of the year. Sub; As in a stereo sub often made by using two 12" speakers built into a wooden box covered by felt that is installed usually in the back of a vehicle or trunk,that makes your ears itch deep inside when inside the car...it's so loud!!! Booming;When music is so loud it rattles the trunk emblems off,bolts loose from the car and vibrates the neighborhood.
Freakquenchies
Created by: bookowl
Pronunciation: freek/kwench/eez
Sentence: The horrific sounds blasting from the car could only be described as freakquenchies.
Etymology: freak + quench + frequency
Vroombox
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: vroom boks
Sentence: He put the vroombox into (Bachman Turner) overdrive.
Etymology: boombox vroom
Comemotions
Created by: silveryaspen
Pronunciation: come motions
Sentence: It wasn't a low-rider, but a loud-rider tunebuggy, Teenie was stearing down the streets. The amplifliers sent everything on the dash flying. Only his seat belt kept the constant sonic booms from sending Teenie flying. He rolled along with woofears and tweetears blaring, a deaf-defying menace loose on the streets. I'm so sick of the these comemotions all over the streets. I've written my state representatives to introduce a law to make all these comemotions disalloud.
Etymology: COME, COMMOTIONS. Come - as in approach, which is what vehicles do as they move down the streets. Commotion - a ruckus: a scene of noisy confusion or activity, which is what such vehicles with deafening sound systems are. - - - Might as well throw in MOTIONS - for all the movements involved, including those to try to get away from these comemotions!
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COMMENTS:
No song of the day ... we all need ear plugs today! - silveryaspen, 2009-03-24: 01:42:00
I totally relate to this....so annoying. - mweinmann, 2009-03-24: 08:35:00
just imagine how many people will have significant hearing loss in the future - Jabberwocky, 2009-03-24: 11:05:00
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Phalloom
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: fal loom
Sentence: The annual spring mating ritual of the young male human starts as soon as the snow melts. Many a souped up vehicle, usually bright and shiny in colour with loads of added on parts and noises starts the migratory prowl. Up and down beach fronts, main drags and in front of malls, fast food places and other areas where the female of the species may congregate. The phalloom of this annual display of muscle can be heard each day and night for several weeks until school goes back in September.
Etymology: Phallic (relating to a phallus especially as an embodiment of generative power;the male organ of copulation) & Voom (sound a car motor makes when revving up)