The arrangement of spikes originally had no distinct name; the term Thagomizer was coined in 1982 by cartoonist Gary Larson in his The Far Side comic strip, and thereafter became gradually adopted as an informal term within scientific circles, research, and education.
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The term thagomizer was coined by Gary Larson in humor, in a 1982 Far Side comic strip, in which a group of cavemen in a faux-modern lecture hall are taught by their caveman professor that the spikes on a Stegosaur's tail are so named after the late Thag Simmons.
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from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License. Coined by Gary Larson in 1982. His comic strip shows a caveman giving a lecture illustrating this part of a dinosaur, with the caption Now this end is called the thagomizer... after the late Thag Simmons. See -ize, -er.
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Term coined by Gary Larson that is most commonly used to describe the arrangement of spikes at the tip of a stegosaur's tail. can be used to describe any such spike arrangement. The Urban Dictionary Mug. One side has the word, one side has the definition. Microwave and dishwasher safe.
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Thagomizer has since been adopted as an informal anatomical term, and is used by the Smithsonian Institution, the Dinosaur National Monument in Utah, the book The Complete Dinosaur and the BBC documentary series Planet Dinosaur.
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Through the Looking-Glass: Lewis Carroll invented quite a few nonsense words and assigned most of them definitions. Some of them have become adopted as real words: He coined the term 'portmanteau' to describe a word that is the combination of two other words (and therefore a subset of neologisms).
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Comic Strips. 1  Peanuts famously coined the term security blanket.. 2  The Far Side: One cartoon featured a classroom of cavemen, with the professor pointing at a picture of a Stegosaur's tail spikes: Now this end is called the thagomizer ... after the late Thag Simmons..
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The tail arrangement is believed to have been a defensive weapon against predators. The term thagomizer was coined by Gary Larson in a 1982 Far Side comic strip, in which a group of cavemen in a faux-modern lecture hall are taught by their caveman professor that the spikes were named for the late Thag Simmons.
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Top definition. Thagomizer. Term coined by Gary Larson that is most commonly used to describe the arrangement of spikes at the tip of a stegosaur's tail. can be used to describe any such spike arrangement. Paleolithic teacher: This end is called the 'Thagomizer'...after the late Thag Simmons..
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Peanuts famously coined the term security blanket.. The Far Side: One cartoon featured a classroom of cavemen, with the professor pointing at a picture of a Stegosaur's tail spikes: Now this end is called the thagomizer ... after the late Thag Simmons..
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Gary Larson coined the term thagomizer.