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frisbee

FRIZ-bee · noun

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Origin

Frisbee comes from the trademark Frisbee, a brand name for a flying plastic disc toy.

Journey

Over time, the brand name became so dominant that people started using it for any flying disc, regardless of who made it — a shift known as genericization.

Related words

It's related to the trademark it sprang from, having simply lowercased into everyday speech; no other cognate is given in the record.

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