"springboard" the verb

[Laurence Horn]

Maybe "ripping off" would be more accurate than "stealing", if you have the same nuances (and register restrictions) that I do between the two.
Not all springboarding (or even prototypical springboarding) involves ripping-off, of course, since there can be different scenarios for picking/taking up where someone else left off.

LH

On Feb 2, 2012, at 12:22 PM, Dan Goncharoff wrote:

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