- Hold the vator.
vator
noun; clipping
short denotation of elevator, a transporter that shifts people and freight vertically. Vator is a few syllables shorter than elevator and thus more quickly pronounced. Vator is easily recognized as elevator because it still has great similarity to the original word.
Etymology : vator. Clipping of ‘elevator’ (a transporter that moves people and freight up and down)
Source : A Sid student as she ran towards the elevator
Last modified: 10 June 2008