It's Official--cleveland Is a Verb

cleve·land

 [kleev-luh nd]


-- verb
1. to be the subject of a sports-based injustice. My kid's little league team had a 1 run lead and we got clevelanded by the umpire.

2. to defy statistically favorable circumstances and still yield an unfavorable result.  e.g. snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.  Man, you prepared all day for that presentation and still clevelanded it up. 

3. to remember any single or combination of the following people or events: Red Right 88, The Drive, The Fumble, the Shot, Jose Mesa, Art Modell, 2007 ALCS, or LeDecision. My friend and I clevelanded last night over a beer.


*never to be capitalized ... ever.