"pinger" -- possible Word Of The Year?

[Jonathan Lighter]

_Ping_: 'to inquire of.'

CNN's _State of the Nation_ (March 16, 2014)

https://archive.org/details/CNNW_20140316_130000_State_of_the_Union_With_Candy_Crowley#start/780/end/840:

CANDY CROWLEY:  I did talk to a source at the CIA yesterday, and he said
we're pinging everybody we know. You know, we're pinging agencies that we
work with, we're pinging sources.

JL


On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 12:55 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:

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> "The Moving Pinger reads: and, having read,
> Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit
> Shall lure it back to retraverse a Line;
> But all thy Tears plashed out a Word from it."
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> Lines inspired by news that "A pinger locator has detected signals
> consistent with those by emitted by aircraft black boxes."  (CNN, 11
> hours ago.)
>
> Joel
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