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POP goes the taxi

Yesterday’s Rhymes With Orange:

A POP — phrasal overlap portmanteau — combining the clipped compound mani-pedi (a manicure plus a pedicure; see here) and the compound pedicab ‘pedal-operated taxi’.

This entry was posted on July 31, 2014 at 5:18 am and is filed under Clipping, Compounds, Linguistics in the comics, Phrasal overlap portmanteaus, Portmanteaus. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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