duckshove
v.— «It will be toppled by your well meaning but hopelessly misguided eviscerators! It’s time to call a spade a spade again, and stop duck-shoving.» —“School Logo” by Terry Bowden in N.Z. Usenet: k12.ed.life-skills Dec. 17, 1993. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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