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Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.
I have to take exception to this one (second Class Pedant speaking here). "In-ocul-ation" means putting something into the eye, the way the first smallpox vaccinations were administered way back when, which is how the word first came into general use. Maybe they mean to wash away the cobwebs by pouring a cup of coffee in your eye?
{Actually, vaccination is another word which evolved away from its origin (am I crossing threads here?). It derives from the Vaccinia (cowpox) virus, which gave all the smallpox-immune milkmaids their protection against smallpox (which is Variola). Material from active cowpox skin lesions was put into a solution and dropped into the little pocket between the pulled-back eyelid and the eyeball itself, thereby vaccinating people by inoculation.)
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