Examples
“Is that a cow catching a disc (frisbee is trademarked) ..?”
“Maybe frisbee is what they did before they became famous.”
“But his favorite thing to do with the frisbee is tug it or chew on it.”
“The National Disc Golf Tour, also known as frisbee golf, starts in Tasmania this weekend.”
“NISB -- rhymes with "frisbee," the Governor helpfully observed -- would put a new emphasis on securing ports, pipelines, and other projects with greater security against accidents, mischief, and terrorism.”
“Unlike your run-of-the mill Wham-O, however, this "frisbee" will probably be thrown using a device resembling a skeet launcher.”
“Yes, Wham-O illegally copyrighted the term "frisbee", which was in public use at the time for quite awhile.”
“The Man albums were in an appalling condition, they looked as if someone had been playing 'frisbee' with them while decorating the room.”
“So while instead of that sharp over-the-top curveball he once threw, he had what the pitchers call a "frisbee" curve.”
“My Airport 'frisbee' never seems to do this, but my airport express and a neighbor's linksys drop regularly.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘frisbee’.
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Hats, Uses of
Following (a great while after!) a recommendation on debonair; this is an attempt to summarize all possible things that can be done with hats, or reasons to wear them. Creative contributions welcome.
keeping the head ..., keeping the face ..., being doffed, being doffed to l..., being worn at rak..., bump protection, makes you look aw..., showing off inter..., makes you look cl..., makes you look de..., an indicator of y..., to celebrate a ha... and 6 more...
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Playthings and Toys
have fun!
battledore, beanbag, bicycle, Big Wheel, crayons, boomerang, cap gun, doll, kite, jigsaw puzzle, hula hoop, jack-in-the-box and 66 more...
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Things that might glow in the dark
glowworm, lightning bug, firefly, Vibrio fischeri, radium dial, Hawaiian bobtail ..., railroad worm, foxfire, distant cities, Cherenkov radiation, Wint-O-Green Life..., glow sticks and 50 more...
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genericized trademarks
Trademarked names that people use to refer to the thing in general, regardless of maker.
xerox, saran wrap, play-doh, silly putty, jell-o, crapper, band-aid, sharpie, biro, bic, zippo, thermos and 81 more...
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Childhood
Hula-Hoop, fairies, twirl, twinkle, glitter, candyland, firefly, June bug, wonderland, Alice-in-Wonderland, bedtime stories, spelling bee and 27 more...
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No end of plastic
frisbee, hula-hoop, cellulosic, plasticky, fictile, lego, gutta-percha, bakelite, Parkesine, polyethylene, polyvinyl chloride, celluloid and 39 more...
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Serendipity's Words
defenestration, mercurial, syzygy, wicked, iniquitous, metastable, demimonde, entropic, ephemeral, irreligious, frisbee, manifold and 474 more...
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LWC's Words
spork, heteroskedasticity, kurtosis, eigenspace, smithian, skewness, montanan, whoremonger, mellifluous, fishwife, papist, romanist and 142 more...
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kingofbash's Words
bash, poleaxed, salacious, libertine, charlatan, aplomb, fortuitous, finagle, apoplectic, debutante, carte blanche, aardvark and 472 more...
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trademark
all of these are from 7 English
dictionaries and Macquarie dictionary
I havent listed capitalized ones yet
but Viagra would be one and common
words like sterling a sub-machi...agene, airbus, alnico, adware, amberina, amarone, apiezon, aspirin, boxercise, bakelite, bromo, atebrin and 774 more...
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Genericide
Trademarks that have lost their character as indicators of source to become a general term for a product or service.
cellophane, aspirin, butterscotch, escalator, heroin, kerosene, thermos, yo-yo, zipper, dry ice, email, freeware and 106 more...
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Let's Play
Classic Children's Toys and Games and Amusements
colorforms, jacks, hopscotch, louisville slugger, duncan imperial, flexible flyer, radio flyer, troll doll, dam doll, pick-up sticks, silly putty, marbles and 155 more...
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oddball
wackadoodlery.
( personal list )
related (from me):
http://www.wordnik.com/lists/onomatopoeias--1
bric-a-brac, succotash, humbucker, skedaddle, scallywag, sassafras, gadzooks, humdinger, hoity-toity, wishy-washy, namby-pamby, ding dong and 436 more...
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Stuffie: Go Long
Stuffie #1. Stuff you throw.
ball, paper airplane, party, hissy-fit, up, gauntlet, snowball, card, suggestion, pillow, rug, voice and 33 more...
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trademarks
kleenex, xerox, hoover, google, styrofoam, dumpster, frisbee, band-aid, klaxon, teflon, nalgene, hula-hoop and 15 more...
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surprisingly eponymous
words that derive from personal names, though you might not have guessed it
rodomontade, celadon, galvanize, diesel, sideburns, bloomers, chauvinism, quixotic, epicurean, sandwich, chesterfield, gerrymander and 76 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for frisbee.
oroboros "There was a woman named Mary Frisbie who made pies in Connecticut," Marciano tells Renee Montagne. "Students would throw around her pie plates after they had finished her pies, and kind of like you would say, 'Incoming!' they would say, 'Frisbie!' just to give people the heads-up that there was something spinning and flying coming at their head.
Meanwhile, the Wham-O corporation, producer of the hula hoop, was having trouble selling its own flying disk, awkwardly named "The Pluto Platter".
They went around to college campuses, knowing that this was where trends started," Marciano says. "To their surprise, in the Northeast, people were already throwing flying disks, and they had this name 'Frisbie' for it.
For trademark purposes, "Frisbie" became "Frisbee," and a sensation was born.'
--On-air interview by NPR of John Bemelmans Marciano about his book Anonyponymous: The Forgotten People Behind Everyday Words Nov 17, 2009
treeseed Wham-o classic flying disk Jan 27, 2008