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- noun Driving a car slowly so as to maximize fuel efficiency.
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Examples
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Consider the tactics of which some excessively enthusiastic American practitioners have been accused (although the originator of the term hypermiling says that they are
Telegraph Blogs 2008
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It's called hypermiling, but not everybody thinks it's such a good idea.
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In "hypermiling," a quirky new competitive pastime, the winning drivers have surpassed 150 miles per gallon in mass-produced hybrids.
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Have you ever said "hypermiling" in your life, besides just now?
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If "hypermiling" is the 2008 Oxford Word Of The Year, Merriam-Webster counters with "bailout".
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If "hypermiling" is the 2008 Oxford Word Of The Year, Merriam-Webster counters with "bailout".
Archive 2008-12-01 2008
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More now from CNN space correspondent, and based on his reporting last hour on "hypermiling" Mr. Rolling Traffic Jam, Mr. Roadblock, miles O'Brien.
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CleanMPG. com founder Wayne Gerdes, an engineer from Illinois who coined the term "hypermiling" to describe the mileage-maximizing techniques, provided the pointers.
X-bit labs 2009
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Speaking of mileage, I've been hearing the term "hypermiling" a lot lately.
ResearchBuzz 2009
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Yaris, which is free, encourages useful global panic skills such as hypermiling with a subcompact, and is evocative of unemployment because hopefully someone lost their job over it.
Kotaku 2009
kewpid commented on the word hypermiling
Oxford's 2008 word of the year.
November 11, 2008
bilby commented on the word hypermiling
The only one of the 5 finalists I have heard in genuine use is toxic debt. I listed hypermiling because frogblast suggested it on a list of mine 4 months ago.
frugalista? moofer? topless meeting? The last two sound very urban - and Australia is one of the most urbanised countries in the world - yet I've heard neither here.
November 11, 2008
frindley commented on the word hypermiling
I came across this word in a newspaper article, probably online. But I've not heard it spoken. Ditto frugalista and topless meeting: seen but not heard.
November 12, 2008
seanahan commented on the word hypermiling
I've heard hypermiling several times, starting in December 2007.
November 12, 2008