For your interest, here are some words that dominated popular culture in Australia, the US and UK
during the last year.
Macquarie Dictionary
Mansplain (verb) - a man explaining something to a woman, in a way that is
patronising because it assumes that a woman will be ignorant of the subject
matter.
Category winners:
* Agriculture: crash grazing
* Arts: binge
watching
* Business: drip pricing
* Colloquial: mansplain
*
Communications: emoji
* Eating and drinking: share plate
*
Environment: green electricity
* Fashion: loom band
* General
Interest: decision fatigue
* Health: ambulance ramping
* Internet:
typosquatting
* Politics: defund
* Social Interest: lifehacking -
the application of strategies to simplify or improve one's life
* Sport: urban exploration
* Technology:
selfie stick
Australian National Dictionary Centre
Shirtfront - to challenge or confront a person.
Oxford Dictionaries 2014 Word of the Year
Vape - to smoke an e-cigarettes via
vaporised nicotine.
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