Verboticism: Carnervious

'Kids! Quit fooling around back there! It's dangerous!'

DEFINITION: To drive with one eye on the road, and two on your passengers, in order to ensure that they all follow proper safety procedures.

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Carnervious

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Pronunciation: car-ner-vi-us

Sentence: Bobby's new girl friend wondered why he always stared at her lap when driving, until she realized that it was carnervious habit and that he was just checking her seatbelt.

Etymology: car + nervous

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