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Caucickaw-sik
adj. Afraid that the rest of your life is already laid out in front of you, that you're being swept inexorably along a series of predictable milestones--from school to graduation to career to marriage to kids to retirement to death--which makes you wish you could pull off to the side of the road for a little while, to stretch your legs and spread out the map so you can double-check that you're headed the right way.
Etymology
Middle English cauci, path or road + caustic, able to burn or corrode living tissue.
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