Duplicate Keywords - List #16 (Proposals for Permanent Merger and Auto-Conversion) (compilation of lists #11, #12, & #14)

burn-to-death  -->  burned-to-death 

death-by-shooting -->  shot-to-death

earringed-male -->  male-wears-an-earring 

earringed-man -->  man-wears-an-earring 

fridge -->  refrigerator 

pot-smoking -->  smoking-weed -->  smoking-marijuana 

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american-history   -->  u.s.-history 

u.s.-president -->   u-s-president   --> president-of-the-united-states 

cheat -->  cheating 

listening-to-the-radio   -->  listening-to-a-radio 

death-of-main-character    -->  death-of-lead-character    -->  protagonist-dies  -->   death-of-protagonist 

man-in-underwear  -->  men-in-underwear  -->  man-wears-underwear 

situational-comedy   -->   sitcom 

strait-jacket   -->  straitjacket 

teenage  -->  teenaged  -->  teenager 

u.s.-politics  -->  american-politics 

video-tape  -->  videotape 

woman-in-underwear  -->  woman-wears-underwear 

women-fight  -->  fighting-women  -->  women-fighting  -->  woman-fighting-a-woman  -->  woman-fights-a-woman 

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female-with-blonde-hair  -->  blonde 

blood-on-one's-face -->  blood-in-face  -->   blood-face  -->  bloody-face 

caged-animal  -->  caged-animals --> animal-in-a-cage 

caged-human  -->  human-in-a-cage

cut-face   -->  cut-on-one's-face --> facial-cut 

deformed-face  -->   disfigured-face 

deformity  -->  deformed -->  deformation -->  disfigured   --> disfigurement 

face-injury  --> facial-injury 

face-tattoo -->  tattoo-on-one's-face  --> tattoo-on-face 

sms  -->  text-message 

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The following entry is a modification of a previous proposal in my list #11. I discuss this modification here. (Basically, the entire concept of a coworker implies a relationship, given the "co" in "coworker.")

 

co-worker -->  co-workers -->  coworkers  -->  coworker  -->  co-worker-relationship  -->  co-worker-co-worker-relationship  -->  coworker-coworker-relationship 

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This final entry is a recently discovered item that I should have included in my previous list #12:

usa-government  -->  u.s.-government