John Wayne
v.— «“We did it the old way. We John-Wayned it,” a firefighter mused using the term for hitting a door with your shoulder.» —“More vignettes from the Gulf Coast area” by Tony Gnoffo et al. in Kiln, Miss. Knight Ridder Sept. 2, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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