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Does the OED also have "verb" as a verb? That would surprise me even more.
nope.
get with the times, guys!
verb, v.
trans. To use (a word, esp. a noun) as a verb; = VERBIFY v.
1936 F. CLUNE Roaming round Darling vii. 62 The Poet accused me of verbing a noun, but I soon fixed him. I threatened to noun a verb. 1978 Verbatim Sept. 7/1 Take..the four names of the four seasons. Two have been verbed, and two have not. One summers, in Maine, and winters, perhaps, in Florida. 1984 Philos. of Sci. LI. 465 Practically any noun can be verbed in English.
OED, ADDITIONS SERIES 1993
note the predating of Calvin & Hobbes.
-joe 
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