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		syncsynchalt on May 16, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why Van Halen's tour contract had a "no brown M&M'... It's a portmanteau of electric + execution. It's been misused so often that the non-fatal meaning is becoming a separate line item in the definition, but the parent comment is correct.

jefftk on May 18, 2014 [–]

By that argument "electrocution" for "accidental death by electric shock" is also misuse, as the initial definition was "execution via electricity".

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