road-trip, v.

[Jonathan Lighter]

Jesse, this is a linguistics list.  Were it a geopolitical awareness list the headline would have differed.

  Perhaps you missed the comment, "Yeah, I know."  To quote the late William S. Burroughs, "A word to the wiseguy."

  (That used to mean "smart-aleck.")

  JL

Jesse Sheidlower <jester at PANIX.COM> wrote:
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On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 05:18:05AM -0700, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>
> One of Fox's beloved _F & F_ anchors suggests that they
> "could road-trip to England and look for the Loch Ness
> Monster."

And your main problem with this is _road-trip_ being used
as a verb?

Jesse Sheidlower
OED

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