“what a piece of Acrobat!”

Adobe does not like people using their product names as verbs, specifically, “photoshopping” is not allowed.

Trademarks are not verbs.
CORRECT: The image was enhanced using Adobe® Photoshop® software.
INCORRECT: The image was photoshopped.

(emphasis not mine)

Over the years I’ve grown to hate the bloated, often-crashing, slow going, Acrobat Reader. When my system (or browser) is slow, or not responding, the first thing I try is to kill the Acrobat process. That usually does the trick. It’s a poor product, to say the least.

So it occurred to me that as a response to their prohibition of the verbing of their product names, I’ll start using “Acrobat” in all sorts of new ways, like so:

“This product is a piece of Acrobat®!”
“I just Acrobatted myself. Acrobat®!”
“This plum tastes like Acrobat®.”
“He’s got Acrobats® for a brains.”
“Get out of here, you Acrobatting® piece of Acrobat®”
“I Acrobat® you not!”

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