skidoosh

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 4:34 PM, Marc Velasco <marcjvelasco at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Squadoosh morphing?
>
> These rates both gave the spark and the squadoosh to the real estate craze
> by allowing super-low intro rates and then steadily raising those rates.
>
> More datapoints will tell the story.

Ah, there it's being used on the model of "kibosh", filling the frame
of "give the X to".

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