malparkage

English

Etymology

From mal- +‎ park +‎ -age. Perhaps introduced in the animated TV series The Simpsons; see Citations:malparkage.

Noun

malparkage (uncountable)

1. (rare, humorous) An act of parking a vehicle illegally.
   • 1997 21 September, Ian Maxtone-Graham, "The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson", episode 9-1 of The Simpsons, 00:11:46-00:11:59:

     Lisa Simpson (reading letter): Dear motorist. Your vehicle is illegally parked in the borough of Manhattan. If you do not remedy this malparkage within 72 hours, your car will be thrown into the East River at your expense.

   • 2000 August 20, «tµßeguÿ», “Re: automobile tool definitions”, in 3do.bad-attitude‎^[1] (Usenet):

     Coupled with said customer's malparkage in the handicapped zone right in front of the door, this will usually create an atmosphere of tense, suspect aversion.

   • 2010 February 8, Sean Michael Ragan, “UC Berkeley has 'Nobel Laureate Only' parking spaces”, in Make:

     Supposedly, regular mortals have to shell out $50 for presumptuous malparkage among the elite.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:malparkage.

Translations

An act of illegal parking

• German: Falschparken n