"verbification" is a real thing in English (and not all languages), the point of which is that you needn't have heard it before to use it yourself that way, or

"verbification" is a real thing in English (and not all languages), the point of which is that you needn't have heard it before to use it yourself that way, or understand it if you hear it, it follows rules and as a noun, that's what makes it a verb; which is why you had no trouble understanding what GP meant. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/verbification https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/verbification https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversion_(word_formation)#Verbification https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversion_(word_formation)#Ve... and also, though it is attributed to UK https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bum https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bum Verb: bum (present participle bumming, past participle bummed) (UK, transitive, colloquial) To sodomize; to engage in anal sex.