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Jan 01

New Words 2011

  • boomerang child: a young adult who returns to live at his or her family home especially for financial reasons
  • bunga bunga: A phrase of indeterminate origin and meaning, often used in reference to the sexual exploits of Silvio Berlusconi, former prime minister of Italy.
  • crowdsourcing: the practice of obtaining needed services, ideas, or content by soliciting contributions from a large group of people and especially from the online community.
  • fist bump: a gesture in which two people bump their fists together (as in greeting or celebration)
  • helicopter parent: a parent who is overly involved in the life of his or her child
  • humblebrag: to describe the kind of fake humility that we often hear from celebrities when they’re tweeting and talking about how tough their lives are.
  • robocall: a telephone call from an automated source that delivers a prerecorded message to a large number of people