An Early Morning Thought

Sometime in that fuzzy period while I was waking up, I coined a new word:

snorange - n. Something that is created for a specific purpose, but has much broader applicability.

Example: "That law was a snorange. It was created to close a narrow loophole in the tax code, but the IRS found they could use it to go after a wide variety of tax cheats."

Of course snorange is a snorange itself. I thought of it as a word to rhyme with orange, but it could serve a useful function in the language. I can't think of another English word that captures this idea.

Just for the fun of it, I googled snorange and found that there are already two definitions in the urban dictionary. In fact every word ending in "orange" that I tried had at least one definition in the urban dictionary. If we're ever going to have a "real" word that rhymes with orange, one that enters the general vocabulary, we're going to have to pick one and start using it. So go and look in the urban dictionary and propose your favorite, most useful orange rhyme in the comments.