sneak preview

[Arnold Zwicky]

On Jan 27, 2010, at 5:36 AM, i wrote:

> plus, under sneak n.:
>
> U.S. colloq. = sneak preview [with cites from 1941 on]

this is what i've called "conversion [in particular, nouning] by
truncation":

   http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2010/01/06/conversion-by-
truncation/

arnold

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