rankshift (third-person singular simple present rankshifts, present participle rankshifting, simple past and past participle rankshifted)
(linguistics) To use a phrase as a subunit of a longer one
rankshift (plural rankshifts)
The action of rankshifting
Source: Wiktionary
21 May 2025
(adverb) at some indefinite or unstated time; “let’s get together sometime”; “everything has to end sometime”; “It was to be printed sometime later”
The Boston Tea Party helped popularize coffee in America. The hefty tea tax imposed on the colonies in 1773 resulted in America switching from tea to coffee. In the lead up to the Revolutionary War, it became patriotic to sip java instead of tea. The Civil War made the drink more pervasive. Coffee helped energize tired troops, and drinking it became an expression of freedom.
