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SlowVertake

the art of overtaking another vehicle (usually a motorbike overtaking a car or cars) as slowly as possible with almost no acceleration to speak of so as to selfishly get what you want while simultaneously maximizing the inconvenience of everyone around you (especiallyy the 4 guys behind you who'd really like to and could also overtake if you would just speed up or get the fuck out of the way!).
Question Guy: Why are you late?

Answer Guy: I got stuck behind this douchebag who was an absolute master of the SlowVertake. I swear every car on the way here was doing 40kmh and he overtook all of them at 41kmh max without letting anyone get by him. Fucking prick... Hope he dies in a fire.
SlowVertake by spuncer September 25, 2010
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slowvertaking

The incredibly frustrating habit of older drives to occupy the overtaking lane on the road while going at a speed way below the limit; thus making the road effectively single-laned.
Jim was late for work because he got stuck behind a slowvertaking nun in the outside lane.
slowvertaking by hargo October 7, 2009

Slovertake 

Overtaking another vehicle on the freeway at a speed barely fast enough to complete the maneuver. Usually occurs while on cruise control, a slovertake may take many seconds to complete.

Particularly relevant if your journey begins, ends or is via San Luis Obispo (SLO), Calif.
Driver: Gonna pull off at the next exit to get Gas. Just going to Slovertake this Big Rig.

Passenger: Cool.
Slovertake by slo101 January 19, 2010