"drone" (v. trans.)

[Jonathan Lighter]

Fascinatingly, I coined this verb independently about two weeks ago.

What are the chances?  Or is my finger simply on the pulse of the Zeitgeist?

JL

On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 6:49 PM, Arnold Zwicky <zwicky at stanford.edu> wrote:

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> On Mar 14, 2013, at 10:53 AM, Ben Zimmer <bgzimmer at BABEL.LING.UPENN.EDU>
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> > "drone" (v. trans.) 'target or kill (someone) in a drone strike'....
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> http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2013/02/10/the-inevitable-verbing/
> drone ‘attack with a drone, kill by a drone’
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