tromboned

Verb

trombone (third-person singular simple present trombones, present participle tromboning, simple past and past participle tromboned)

1. To transmit a signal or data back to a central switching point before sending it out to its destination.
2. (slang, transitive) To extend and retract (the zoom lens); to use it too enthusiastically.
   • […] do things wrong (like rotating the lens turret while shooting or backwinding and doing multiple passes on the same strip of film or doing in-camera fades with the variable shutter or tromboning a zoom lens like a teenager on acid, etc., etc., etc.) […]2015, Kathryn Ramey, Experimental Filmmaking: Break the Machine, page 357

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