"substance-free"

[Laurence Horn]

At 11:14 AM -0500 12/31/03, sagehen wrote:
>Heard on the local public radio station's Community Calendar this morning:
>One of our upstate towns is having a "Substance-free Celebration" tonight!
>Ethereal? Vaporous? Spirituous -- er, um -- Spiritual?  Hmmm.
>A. Murie

Right; this has been around in the form of "substance-free floors"
and "substance-free dorms" for at least 6 years.  One of my favorite
examples of clipped compounds.

larry