- verbing
- The act of transforming a regular noun into a non-existent verb form.
Our manager said we should work on price-pointing and gold-tagging tonight. Oh, I see she's been verbing again.
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verbing — The act of transforming a regular noun into a non existent verb form. Our manager said we should work on price pointing and gold tagging tonight. Oh, I see she s been verbing again … Dictionary of american slang
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