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ELEVEXER (N.) ‘el-uh-vex-ur  One who holds up the progress of an elevator by opening the closing doors at the last minute (whether by pushing a button or by jamming an arm in the door) to squeeze in. Usage: Karen was about to lose her mind. Not one, not two, but three elevexers held up the journey to the 18th floor, squeaking in with guilty smiles and false apologies as the doors were trying to close. What was their problem? There were three other elevators, couldn’t they have taken one of them?Text © Liesl Schillinger, 8/17/2009  Image ©Elizabeth Zechel, 5/7/2012

ELEVEXER (N.) ‘el-uh-vex-ur  One who holds up the progress of an elevator by opening the closing doors at the last minute (whether by pushing a button or by jamming an arm in the door) to squeeze in. Usage: Karen was about to lose her mind. Not one, not two, but three elevexers held up the journey to the 18th floor, squeaking in with guilty smiles and false apologies as the doors were trying to close. What was their problem? There were three other elevators, couldn’t they have taken one of them?

Text © Liesl Schillinger, 8/17/2009  Image ©Elizabeth Zechel, 5/7/2012

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