"springboard" the verb

[Joel S. Berson]

A couple of things I notice:

Not in the OED as a verb.

At 2/2/2012 11:30 AM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>used by Sean Salisbury, former NFL quarterback
>and now commentator, on his practicing some
>training regime:  "It's only in the last few months that I've sprungboard
"
>
>A bit reminiscent of "sleptwalked", only here
>it's only the first element that's inflected; it
>was clear he didn't say "sprungboarded".  (Maybe
>it's partly that "board" sounds like a past or participial form already?)
>
>Googling "sprungboard", I do find a couple of
>analogous uses on the first page, albeit with
>simple past tense forms rather than participials (not that it matters):
>
>============
>Well, I only took stuff from your videos, so
>since it's "my idea" that I sprungboard off your stuff,...

An extended use -- "springboarding" is "taking
off from", perhaps sometimes with the added connotation of "stealing"?

Joel


>Now a couple of my friends that have done it
>have lost a ton of weight, but didn't build any
>muscle - so they sprungboard off the p90x to crossfit.
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>In fact (I wasn't listening closely), Salisbury
>himself may have been referring to P90X himself,
>but in any case it was a regime of that type.
>
>LH
>
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