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The cab of taxicab is from cabriolet , a light passenger cart; and hack is hackney coach , a coach for hire, hackney or hack being a hired horse and by extension anything shoddy and overused, whence hack-word and hackneyed phrases.
Mundell's work is so central to that field, so "seminal"--an overused term that really applies here--that on many disputed issues his ideas are the basis for both sides of the debate.
This chunky little device, which weighs just under a pound and a half, actually deserves that overused epithet "revolutionary," because it has the power to change something as basic to human civilization as the way people read.
But even at his most glibly nihilistic, in A Clockwork Orange , Kubrick foresaw the punk movement in a way that makes the overused term visionary seem an understatement.
These may be overused, and they are certainly noun-verbs; but they most decidedly are not non-verbs, as the LSSU P.R. pundits declared.