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When three or more people are riding in a car and they drive through a tunnel, all the windows are rolled down and everyone screams out the windows all the way through the tunnel. Their shrieking reverberates off the walls of the tunnel causing quite a ruckus.
Bum #1: Listen to those damn fools yelling out their windows!
Bum#2: They can't help it, Earl. I think they got that disease.
Bum #1: What disease, Fred?
Bum #2: That there Car Pool Tunnel Syndrome.
Bum #1: You're a fucking idiot, Fred.
by theinstigator September 22, 2016
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Temporary, post 9/11 restriction imposed by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey requiring all cars entering the Holland and Lincoln Tunnels during rush hour to have more than one occupant. This caused NYC-bound drivers to pull up to complete strangers at NJ bus stops and ask if they wanted a ride into the city. Sharing of tolls was optional.
Bus stop standee 1: "Did that dude in the Mercedes just ask you if you wanted a ride into the city?"
Bus stop standee 2: "Yeah. Must be carpool tunnel syndrome. I might have accepted, if he didn't have a boner."
by Webster, Merry M. August 09, 2011
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When you are carpooling and you enter a dark tunnel and get that "uneasy feeling" as you sitting next to someone you don't "Really" know.
On the way out of Boston, Sally got Carpool Tunnel Syndrome from the new guy John.
by Daryl Tempesta February 23, 2008
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Repetitive-stress injury afflicting attendants at highway and tunnel tool booths.
Chuckie O'Brien, the head of the New York State toll-takers union, has filed a lawsuit to force the state to recognize car pool-tunnel syndrome as an injury coverable by disability insurance and the state workers' compensation system.
by Tummy AuGratin March 03, 2006
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A person who uses a car pool to travel to work, but is petrified to travel through an underground tunnel to get there
I have a fobia that brevents me from travel through an underground tunnel which is called ,carpooltunnelsyndrome
by Steveo50 August 22, 2018
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Any of a wide range of afflictions resulting from repetitive commuting. Most common are sciatica and butt zits.
Crushed by cement ceiling tiles - that's serious Carpool Tunnel Syndrome!
by hbm September 21, 2007
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