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Today’s Rhymes With Orange:

A phrasal overlap portmanteau (POP), with jack as the overlapping portion: lumber jack + jack-in-the-box. Hilary Price is fond of these, and as usual, the linguistic combo labels a real-world combo: a jack-in-the-box toy with (omigod) a lumberjack in it, complete with working ax.

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