Bullhorn as a Verb

[Laurence Horn]

You can get a lot more hits for the verb by checking "bullhorning"
(for some reason, the quotes matter, even for a single word":  >24K
hits, although a lot are for a song apparently entitled "Bullhorning
from Behind the Imperial Bird", which I've somehow missed hearing to
this point.  Also "bullhorned":  13K hits, many in a political
context (typically in the passive form "get bullhorned".

LH, who long ago disowned his obstreperous cousin "Bull"

At 5:26 PM +0000 3/11/10, ronbutters at aol.com wrote:
>Just shows how wonderfully flexible the English languge is. And of
>course the creativity of the user is not to be underrated, either.
>Very nice!
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>From: Russ McClay
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>I just wrote this sentence on a forum:
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>If "X" wants to bullhorn their interest in "OUR" community, then
>maybe you might see one come and join in on the friviolity here
>in the General Discussions.
>--
>
>And after re-reading it I thought using bullhorn like this was
>very natural but I couldn't remember hearing it before.
>
>A Google search reveals only a few hits on "bullhorn their".
>
>Maybe this has been discussed here before and maybe it's not
>very interesting. =0
>
>Russ
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