Spoken by a Miami cop describing a situation:

[Ben Zimmer]

On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 4:08 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
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> "He kept hurling one _explicative_ after another!"

http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/english/517/explicative/

Entered by Arnold, inspired by a 2005 ADS-L post by... Wilson!

http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0508B&L=ADS-L&D=0&I=-3&P=10686

--bgz

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