n: The driver's gear shifter on an automatic transmission. The name comes from pronouncing the positions of the shifter as read on the shifter display: PRNDL, park, reverse, neutral, drive, and low (gear).
Other variations include "Prindzle" and "Prindezl, for displays that read PRND21 and PRND321, respectively.
Car with automatic transmission. Also the selector in such a car
A car can be a prundler even though it might not have the traditional automatic transmission with torque converter. Any DSG, CVT, Hybrid that has a fully automatic mode for changing gear is a prundler.
Any car (usually electric) with fixed-ratio transmission is also a prundler.
To not be a prundler a car would need at least two forward gear ratios that can only be selected manually.
Origin:
From PRNDL -> PRNDLer -> PRuNDLer
(referring to the car itself)
Would you believe it, that Peugeot 407 is a prundler, look inside!
So there I was trundling along in my prundler...
(refering to the car part)
The prundler in my car is broken and now its stuck in reverse
When you have to pee in a movie but don’t want to miss anything, and must do the following mental equation: will the amount I have to pee cause enough discomfort to diminish my attention capacity for the remainder of the movie to an extent which is greater than the amount of the movie I would miss by making a mad dash to the restroom.
I saw Satantango last night, wonderful film but by the 5th hour I had to start doing pee calculus.
Short-hand for the word floccinaucinihilipilification, meaning the estimation of something as valueless (encountered mainly as an example of one of the longest words in the English language).