A Capable Neologism, Courtesy Major League Baseball
Here’s Hunter Pence absolutely explode-tackling his third-base coach while running to the plate: atmlb.com/LWIfff
— MLB (@MLB) July 8, 2012
The author has often stated — at cocktail parties, at area bars after those same cocktail parties — that neologism is his favorite sort of gism.
Thus it was with no little pleasure that the author found, in the midst of his Twitter feed this morning, the above-embedded message, courtesy Major League Baseball itself.
A brief inspection of the web — noted for being worldwide in its dimensions — reveals that neither explode-tackle nor any of its variants (explode-tackling, will have explode-tackled, etc.) is in anything like common use.
What it (i.e. the WWW) does reveal is that Juan Samuel has ordered a Code Red to be performed in and around and on the head part of Hunter Pence.
Carson Cistulli has published a book of aphorisms called Spirited Ejaculations of a New Enthusiast.
It’s a neologasm!!
In this context, neologism takes on additional meaning as well.
As in, “Oh, dear, Carson got neologism all over his compact OED.”