[hellbender]

Careen is nautical term for heeling a boat over, and that is the only definition in my Oxford English Dictionary. When a word is misused for years, lesser dictionaries will cave in and start listing the misuse as a secondary meaning. The fact is that careen got this misuse because it sounds like "career."

Something similar is happening today with the word "eke," which means to supplement. Because it reminds people of "squeak," it is frequently being used to mean "barely get by," as in "Bush eked out a victory over Gore."

[luvbach1]

Careen is nautical term for heeling a boat over, and that is the only definition in my Oxford English Dictionary.

Don't mean to argue but my source for the meaning(s) of careen was the Random House Unabridged Dictionary. The fact remains that words do have more than one meaning.