"Cheap plow" = "cheap shot, low blow"?

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 5:29 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> From the NYT Online:
>
> "It seems a _cheap plow_ of the NY Times to 'generate points' in a
> story by including only some of the facts."
>
> http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/08/07/is-apple-iphone-ready-for-business-sort-of-says-gartner/?nl=tech&emc=tech
>
> The comment was made by a reader who signed himself as being from
> "NC." Unfortunately, he could be from NC only to the extent that I'm
> from MA.
>
> Not in DARE.

I'm guessing it's a typo for "cheap ploy".


--Ben Zimmer

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