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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..
Carwinism
Created by: jesster
Pronunciation: Car - win -ism
Sentence: George is a terrible driver. The fact that he has survived to the age of 35 and has two kids is clearly a complete failure of the theory of carwinism.
Etymology: Car (you know, a car) + Darwinism (the process of natural selection, by which unfit individuals are eliminated from the gene pool)
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COMMENTS:
Maybe we should be teaching the theory of careationism after all... - jesster, 2007-07-17: 13:16:00
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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
Steeringwill
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: steer-ing-will
Sentence: even though it was going to eventuate in a devastating collision, his steeringwill had kicked in and nothing could divert him from his path
Etymology: steering wheel, will
Deadfast
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: ded faast
Sentence: The undertaker remarked on how deadfast the Lemming family had been through the generations, right back to old Abe who had tried to reason with a herd of buffalo in the days before barbed wire. This time however it was a herd of hogs who had parked in Josia's executive car space at the Lemming liquor store.
Etymology: steadfast, dead fast.
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COMMENTS:
nice intuitive word. Minor objection to it not being a verb but a good idea. - Wiserhinoceros, 2007-07-17: 11:50:00
Hmm where in the rules does it say it has to be a verb? I guess that is somewhat implied from the name of the game, but I didn't realize that was a hard and fast rule. - jesster, 2007-07-17: 13:15:00
I would think the definition implies verb-like action in this case, but a well-placed object works for me too. - Kyoti, 2007-07-17: 15:24:00
would you like to rephrase that Kyoti? - galwaywegian, 2007-07-18: 03:57:00
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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)
Strdiver
Created by: missmurder
Pronunciation: sra-dive-err
Sentence: Dan got a ticket because he was a strdiver.
Etymology: stuipid+driver
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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Ninja
Created by: Girljenta2006
Pronunciation:
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COMMENTS:
Hola - Girljenta2006, 2007-07-22: 11:29:00
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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