Date:    Tue, 24 Feb 1998 15:40:25 -0500
<br>From:    Jesse T Sheidlower  jester[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]PANIX.COM 
<br>Subject: Re: Slimed
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<br>While I have little doubt that the political sense of _slime,_
<br>and the verb's general currency, was popularized by the movie
<br>_Ghostbusters,_ I feel obligated to point out that OED2 does
<br>record _slime_ as a transitive verb meaning 'to smear or cover
<br>with slime', with citations to 1628, including two from Tennyson.
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<br>Jesse Sheidlower
<br> jester[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]panix.com 
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