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Example sentences for: hypodermic
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My fellow Slate columnist Robert Wright asked me recently: "Isn't it slightly absurd to apply the prefix over to something whose Greek root means under ?" As Wright knows, the hype in overhype probably comes from hypodermic , as in needle, the components of that term deriving from Greek words meaning "under the skin."
William Safire in his New Political Dictionary writes: "Investing a minor occurrence with false importance is called 'hype' or 'media hype,' from the euphoric kick one gets from an injection of a narcotic with a hypodermic needle."
Hype in the sense of excessive or false publicity goes back much further than the 1960s (Collingwood's suggested decade of origin)--to at least the 1920s (per the Oxford English Dictionary ), which is the same time that hype is attested to as a verb and noun associated with drug use, and the word is explicitly linked to hypodermic . The OED , the Dictionary of American Slang , the Barnhart Dictionary of New English , and the Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang all make the hypodermic connection.
Dissection began with the removal of the black serosal cutical by sticking the eggs to a microscope slide with double-sided sticky tape, covering with PBS, piercing the serosal cuticle and pushing out the embryo and yolk with a hypodermic needle.
Cullen Murphy replies: Harris Collingwood's letter is one of many I have received that would derive hype from hyperbole rather than more circuitously from the hype derived from hypodermic , and thus from the idea of stimulation associated with drug use.
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