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What's a word you like that people don't know or a word you learned recently? (hexbear.net)
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[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 6 points 6 days ago

Today I learned the word "velocitize" from musical criticism quote on the Wikipedia page of a guy named Lester Bangs.

His 1970 review of Black Sabbath's first album in Rolling Stone was scathing, rating them as imitators of the band Cream:

Cream clichés that sound like the musicians learned them out of a book, grinding on and on with dogged persistence. Vocals are sparse, most of the album being filled with plodding bass lines over which the lead guitar dribbles wooden Claptonisms from the master's tiredest Cream days. They even have discordant jams with bass and guitar reeling like velocitized speedfreaks all over each other's musical perimeters yet never quite finding synch—just like Cream! But worse.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lester_Bangs

Off the net...

To become or cause to become accustomed to traveling at a high speed so that when entering a zone in which the speed limit is reduced, especially a highway exit ramp, the driver tends to drive too fast.

merriam-webster.com...

to cause (an automobile driver) to misjudge or become unaware of true speed or to become drowsy as a result of prolonged traveling at a high speed (as on an open highway)