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> Uber—the first company since Google with a service so popular that its name is in regular use as both a noun and a verb

Skype?




I think "tweet" should count. People say "Facebook me" too. I hear both more regularly than "uber," in fact I can't remember a anyone using it as a verb but that's just because an uber is something you get rather than do. I don't taxi over to your house either.


I don't taxi over to your house either.

Well, not unless their house is at the end of a runway :)


I've heard 'taxiing over' many times as well as 'ubering'.


Instagram, Snapchat, Facetime, Tinder, WhatsApp


Facebook? Come on, people!


Never heard Uber in use as a verb before. Skype, a few times.


Google?




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