Eponymizing Mr. Cruise

Thu Jul 14 03:56:03 UTC 2005

The eponym "Cruising" (in two different senses) has already been noted:

http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0505D&L=ADS-L&P=R6524

Now comes "Cruisazy"...

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http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20050709/CROSBIE09/TPEntertainment/Columnists
Toronto Globe & Mail, July 9, 2005
Those celebrities determined to wear their up-to-the-moment pop gossip on
their chests are currently snagging Crush's new Tom Cruise T-shirt, which
features an image of the maniacally smiling star above the neologism
"Cruisazy."
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http://entertainment.myway.com/celebgossip/pgsix/id/07_12_2005_12.html
NY Post, Page Six, July 12, 2005
TATUM O'Neal at Mod World on First Street, buying a T-shirt showing Tom
Cruise's beaming face over the neologism "Cruisazy," which designer
MissWit defines as, "To be like Tom Cruise. To act in a way that is Tom
Cruise-like. To know something completely, that others do not"...
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--Ben Zimmer