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Word of the Day for Friday, February 7, 2014

schuss \shoos\, verb:

1. Skiing. to execute a schuss.

noun:
1. a straight downhill run at high speed.

When he schussed down the shallower pistes, his skis were closely parallel and his knees were barely flexed as he rode the moguls.
-- Nigel Slater, Falcon, 1979

That farfetched combination has produced some equally far-out fashions: wait until you see that glittering sequined spacesuit schussing down the slopes.
-- Jennet Conant, Newsweek, 1985

Schuss comes to us from German word of the same spelling meaning "shot." It entered English in the 1930s.

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