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'Don't worry. I'm not asleep. I'm meditating.'

DEFINITION: n. A state of heightened, subconscious awareness that allows drivers to "safely" navigate and control a vehicle without watching the road. v. To drive without bothering to watch where you are going.

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Wheeltrancefulness

Created by: mana1066

Pronunciation: weel'trans'ful'ness

Sentence: I've perfected both makeup-driving and wheeltrancefulness.

Etymology: Wheel + trance + wakefulness

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COMMENTS:

They should teach that in driver's school - mana1066, 2007-03-13: 13:14:00

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Napigate

Created by: Nuwanda

Pronunciation: nap-a-gate

Sentence: After years of working the graveyard shift, Joel was highly skilled at napigating between his home and workplace. So successful in fact, that after retiring, he would sometimes awake with a start to find himself trying to unlock his old office.

Etymology: Navigate plus nap.

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COMMENTS:

I hate it when I go to work when I don\'t have to. - artr, 2009-09-30: 14:43:00

Love it... - Nosila, 2009-10-01: 01:30:00

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Somnambuslate

Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: salm/nam/bus/late

Sentence: Our local bus driver would somnambuslate his way through his route - he was never on time.

Etymology: somnambulate (sleep walk) + bus + late

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COMMENTS:

rancid transit indeed! - Nosila, 2011-02-17: 21:31:00

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Hibernavigating

Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: hy ber navi gay ting

Sentence: Morphea was good at hibernavigating on her long commute home. She was there, but could never recall how she got home.

Etymology: Hibernating (be in an inactive or dormant state;Sleeping) & Navigating (direct to travel carefully and safely)

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Antecrashsomnia

Created by: Paige

Pronunciation: ante crash som ni a

Sentence: While Shannon was driving down the windy road late last night she was slowly drifting into antecrashsomnia.

Etymology: ante: before crash: crash somn: sleep ia:

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love - sammrorkeydork, 2011-02-17: 11:31:00

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Pelagnosanspect

Created by: jrlion2016

Pronunciation: pell-egg-noss-an-spekt

Sentence: Mary was tired and decided to not pay enough attention to the road while she was driving. She went into her pelagnostanspectic state so she could continue driving home without have any memory of her drive home.

Etymology: pel-to drive; a-without; gnos-knowledge; an-without; spect-seeing

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Carthorsemode

Created by: letterati

Pronunciation: huh? cart-horse-mode

Sentence: He was so mad, he switched into carthorsemode the rest of the way

Etymology: er, old English farming practice?

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Inthezzzzoom

Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: in the zoom

Sentence: It always freaks me when I see other drivers operating their vehicles inthezoom.

Etymology: "in the zone" (being totally focussed on an activity) + zzzz (cartoon language for sleeping) + zoom (move fast, typically when driving a car)

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