"... heat-sinking missile."

[Bill Le May]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: American Dialect Society
> [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of Laurence Horn
> >>  It's "heat-_sinking_ missile," y'all. It ain't nothing
> interesting
> >> about a heat-_seeking_ missile.
> >
> >Or more properly, heat-synching?
>
> as in lip-synching?

Or lap-synching.

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