n. (German)—Panic buying (little twitchy rodent hoarding)
The word of the year. From point of news, it’s coronavirus. And there are many more important words. But none as beautiful. And none as good at encompassing the tragicomedy of a meanspirited, rodent-brained hoarding of toilet paper.
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