What is Mike Myered?
1.
To be stuck in a tight space, especially when driving a vehicle on a narrow passage or street. The phrase is a play on the word "mired," and refers to a scene from "Austin Powers," in which the title character, portrayed by Mike Myers, is driving a golf cart down the narrow corridor of an industrial building and becomes impossibly jammed in a sideways manner. More specifically, to be "mike myered" is to attempt a three-point turn in a vehicle, only to find that the space is too narrow and requires a turn of four, five, six or more points.
As we were leaving the graduation party, I took a wrong turn, but when I tried to pull a quick
U-turn I got mike myered between all the cars parked on the street.
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