fool

[Geoff Nathan]

Beautiful example of noun-incorporation in English:

.....

In like manner, Richard Pryor once said,

"When I was in the joint, I was a license-plate-stamping motherfucker!"

That is to say, when he was in the joint, he *license-plate-stamped* his ass off.
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-Wilson

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Geoffrey S. Nathan
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and Professor, Linguistics Program
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