Definitions

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  • noun trademark, genericized, vehicles A snowmobile

Etymologies

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From the trademark Ski-Doo, originally an erroneous rendering of "Ski-Dog" that was adopted as the official brand name of the first snowmobile.

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Examples

  • BB pal Richard Metzger of Disinformation points out that the trailer for Skidoo is now on YouTube and it's a gas.

    Boing Boing: July 30, 2006 - August 5, 2006 Archives 2006

  • He was making a film titled Skidoo, starring Jackie Gleason as a retired organized crime figure.

    Paul Krassner: Mods and Rockers Festival: Skidoo 2008

  • "I couldn't see many redeeming social factors in his movie [entitled Skidoo] about Jackie Gleason dropping acid."

    Grace Slick The Biography Rowes, Barbara 1980

  • Writer Christian Divine is the world's foremost authority on Otto Preminger's 1968 acid-comedy "Skidoo".

    Christian Divine: Mods & Rockers Festival: Six Degrees of Skidoo 2008

  • So then he called me up, and he’s like, I’ve written a more commercial screenplay called Skidoo, and I’ve written a supporting part for you in that.

    My Year of Flops Nathan Rabin 2010

  • Otto Preminger's 1968 counterculture oddity "Skidoo," he's rendered almost speechless in describing a 46-year-old

    NYT > Home Page By STEPHANIE ZACHAREK 2010

  • Otto Preminger's 1968 counterculture oddity "Skidoo," he's rendered almost speechless in describing a 46-year-old

    NYT > Home Page By STEPHANIE ZACHAREK 2010

  • Other film credits include Otto Preminger's 1968 gangster comedy "Skidoo," with Jackie Gleason; "Hercules in New York" (1970), a comedy with Arnold Schwarzenegger; and "Dennis the Menace" (1993), with Walter Matthau.

    NYT > Home Page 2009

  • Reminiscent in their thundering, noise and bass-filled excursions of some quite trendy post-punk names to drop – 23 Skidoo, PiL, Killing Joke, to name but three – at least part of Mi Ami's strength live is in the considerable discrepancy between how they look (smart, collegiate) and how they sound (drooling, woad-daubed, cauldron-stirring).

    This week's new live music amp; John Robinson 2010

  • Skidoo suffers from a surplus rather than a dearth of ideas.

    My Year of Flops Nathan Rabin 2010

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