"springboard" the verb

[Dan Goncharoff]

Sorry, where does "stealing" come into use?
DanG



On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 12:02 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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> A couple of things I notice:
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> Not in the OED as a verb.
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> At 2/2/2012 11:30 AM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>>used by Sean Salisbury, former NFL quarterback
>>and now commentator, on his practicing some
>>training regime:  "It's only in the last few months that I've sprungboard…"
>>
>>A bit reminiscent of "sleptwalked", only here
>>it's only the first element that's inflected; it
>>was clear he didn't say "sprungboarded".  (Maybe
>>it's partly that "board" sounds like a past or participial form already?)
>>
>>Googling "sprungboard", I do find a couple of
>>analogous uses on the first page, albeit with
>>simple past tense forms rather than participials (not that it matters):
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>>Well, I only took stuff from your videos, so
>>since it's "my idea" that I sprungboard off your stuff,...
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> An extended use -- "springboarding" is "taking
> off from", perhaps sometimes with the added connotation of "stealing"?
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> Joel
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>>Now a couple of my friends that have done it
>>have lost a ton of weight, but didn't build any
>>muscle - so they sprungboard off the p90x to crossfit.
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>>In fact (I wasn't listening closely), Salisbury
>>himself may have been referring to P90X himself,
>>but in any case it was a regime of that type.
>>
>>LH
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