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transportation 

Cuban slang for a cheap car.
Get a Ferrari?! I can barely afford this transportation!
transportation by cocomonkilla March 10, 2009

Transportation Security Administration

(US GOVERNMENT) Agency in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Mostly a new entity, which is perhaps the single most conspicuous domestic policy failure of the US government since 2000.

The TSA's job is to inspect baggage carried on flights at 450 international airports in the USA. Implementing this mandate simply consisted of "federalizing" thousands of private-sector employees who had been woefully under-qualified. Initially, the DHS had been formed explicitly to break law enforcement unions (which contribute to fighting corruption in law enforcement, as well as protecting law enforcement officers' rights as employees). In the case of the TSA, this had disastrous consequences for the quality of air travel.
The Transportation Security Administration has one mission, namely, to check passengers and luggage at 450 international airports across the USA. It does not inspect freight or border entries; that is done by Customs and Border Protection. For this function, it employs 45,000 screeners under lousy conditions with awful pay. And it spends more doing this one thing than Sweden spends on its entire military.

public transportation patience 

This is the tremendously flexible patience you have to use to deal with the sorts of weirdos and headaches you encounter on public transportation
After the homeless woman shit on the seat next to her and the subway lights went off, Lisa had to use a serious amount of public transportation patience to get through every second.

TRANSPORTATIONALLY

: Of, relating to, characterized by, or cercerned with transportation
trans.port.a.tion.al.ly - adverb
A student who is stuck on campus with no way to leave is said to be transportationally challenged.

Public Transportation Hands 

The state of a person's hands after riding on public transportation, such as a bus or train, and holding rails or touching seats. Often ends in the use of hand sanitizer.
Don't pick up that sandwich honey! We just got off the bus and you have public transportation hands! Here, use some Purell.

Primary Mode of Transportation

A military term used to describe either your feet or boots. The United States Marine Corps will hump (or hike) for several miles instead of traveling by a vehicle.
The Hummer is broken down, so we'll have to hump it using our primary mode of transportation.