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Michigan 11-pointer, kinnear

Recent interesting catchwords from the Double-Tongued Dictionary are:

Michigan 11-pointer n. an immature male deer with small antlers.

kinnear v. to surreptitiously take a candid photograph, especially by holding the camera low and out of the line of sight. This new word was coined in August 2007 by Stephanie Pearl-McPhee after the actor Greg Kinnear, of whom she was unable to take a photo during an encounter at an airport.

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Grant Barrett