A screenshot from the game Plinbo at the ball shop - one of the two options is the Driftleft Ball with the description "Chance to go left +15%"

A screenshot from the game Plinbo showing the triangular shape, with two balls approaching the bottom slots - 0.2x multiplier in the middle, 10x muliplier on the far left and right sides.

Played the new roguelike Plinko game Plinbo this weekend and discovered the DRIFTLEFT and DRIFTRIGHT balls, which are more likely to drop to the left or right (respectively) than a standard ball - therefore more likely to fall into outer slots with higher multipliers. #CutthroatCompounds

What Are Cutthroat Compounds? Cutthroats are compounds that name people and things by describing what they do. Cutthroats are made from a transitive verb and a noun, where the noun is the direct object of the verb. Cutthroats a…

cc @e-briannica.bsky.social, collector of #CutthroatCompounds, for torchecul and wipe-breeches, I think they're "new" ^

www.encyclopediabriannica.com?p=57

books.google.com/books?id=CWA...

A spreadsheet excerpt of 23 potential cutthroats that are all names of pinball machines.

23 new potential #CutthroatCompounds in a day?! There are 4 I'm unsure about (in red), but worth including to research more in the future. (Current list now has 1554 cutthroats.)

The backglass for the pinball machine Nudge-It, a gold mining themed game.

A list of pinball games that end in -It. Most are from 1930s except NIP-IT from 1973, and NUDGE-IT from 1990.

And the pinball people told me about pinside.com and ipdb.com, and now I've found more #CutthroatCompounds! ROLL-IT WHIP-IT, WHIRL-IT, MATCH-IT, HIT-IT (all 1930s), NUDGE-IT (1990) In flipperless machines, "tilt"ing the game was necessary. What a day! www.ipdb.org/machine.cgi?...

An excerpt from the Wiktionary page for cutthroat compounds that says "Coined by editor and linguist Brianne Hughes in 2015, as cutthroat is an example of the class of compound words."

I'm cited on Wiktionary?! That's so cool. And in the same breath as my beloved cranberry morphemes? A dream. en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cutthro... The thesis was from 2012, but who's counting. #CutthroatCompounds

The product page for Kneel-It Rolling kneepads kneeling chair v3. A picture of the black and lime green device is to the left of the title.

Just learned about KNEEL-IT products. Unfortunately, I think it's an IT thing for kneeling, because the thing doesn't kneel, you do, but more comfortably. It doesn't kneel it. I don't think kneel can be transitive here. kneelit.com #CutthroatCompounds #AmResearching

Lube-It USA 10 miute oil change and carwash logo and building image from Eugene Oregon

Lube-It Express and Wash-it Express sign from Utah with a sign that says "Thank you Moab for 25 years"

The sign and building for the Lube It Fill business in New Jersey "10 minute oil change - discount tires"

#Endof2024Countdown #CutthroatCompounds continued... LUBE-IT USA is an oil change service shop in Eugene, Oregon. Now I've found LUBE-IT variants in Utah and New Jersey. Actually, the Utah one is older (1993) and New Jersey one says "for over 20 years." Antedating businesses is tough. 6/?

An instagram ad for warm her: a period cramp heat and massage device that fits around the midsection.

Just got an instagram ad for WARMHER (2024), a fanny pack massage and heating pad. I already have BOB HER (1702, a game) and STROKEHER (1332, a surname) on my big #CutthroatCompounds list. #AmResearching

I'm trying to figure out how old some law firm jokes are: "The offices of Dewey, Cheatum, and Howe", "...Dewey, Screwem, and Howe" and in England "...Sue, Grabbit, and Run". All 20th century, but not sure when. Some cite Three Stooges for Dewey Cheatum and Howe. #AmResearching #CutthroatCompounds

An excerpt of a large spreadsheet of cutthroat compounds. This shows 11 examples from 1990 to 1999 - Sally Save-Water (mascot for California drought) to Lube It! USA (a business in Oregon).

#EndOf2024Countdown: This month I'm gonna look back at the modern #CutthroatCompounds - the ones that have in 1990 or sooner. I've found 141 candidates. Some are hard to confirm if they are really [V+N(direct object], and some may be older, which I will some day antedate. 1/?

My profession is #TechnicalEditing, my special interest is #HistoricalLinguistics. I deeply love #CompoundMorphology and #ReferenceWorks and I'm always hunting for new #CutthroatCompounds.

I am a part of many wonderful organizations: #Wordnik, #OddSalon, #ACES, #DSNA, #ADS, and #NPL.