bucket as a verb

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>From Mike's List:

ONE OF THE UNUSUAL FEATURES OF ENGLISH is that nouns can evolve into verbs.
Linguists call it "conversion" or "zero derivation." Flip newsletter writers
call it "verbing."
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Silicon Valley geeks, venture capitalists and technology marketers
instinctively use and abuse this unusual characteristic of the language. One
of my favorites, for example, is "bucket," which is a verb here in Silicon
Valley that means "to categorize conceptually," as in "we're going to bucket
visitors to the site according to region."
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