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Colonel "Bat" Guano (Keenan Wynn) to Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake (Peter Sellers): I think you're some kind of deviated prevert. I think General Ripper found out about your preversion, and that you were organizing some kind of mutiny of preverts. Now MOVE!!
This usage by Kubrick (or the novelist Peter George, I don't know who gets credit) could be termed, I think, acyrologia, in terms of Rhetoric; but is more popularly known as a malaprop.
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