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selfie noun informal a photograph taken of yourself, often for the purposes of posting on a social-networking website
‘The Newsroom’ Reacts To Allison Pill’s Nude Selfie
burn book noun a diary in which you write criticisms of other people
BURN BOOK Last seen in Mean Girls, now someone’s penned one in Suri’s name. Now that’s mean, girls.
pass-agg verb informal to behave in a passive-aggressive manner towards someone
Sarah (Catherine Shepherd) pass-aggs Helen (Jo Page) into next week when the latter turns up late to collect Chloe from school.
gastrocrat noun a wealthy foodie
Notting Hill’s gastrocrat restaurant The Ledbury was packed to the gills in the weeks immediately after 15 thugs stormed in to rob and terrorise diners during last year’s riots.
obesity paradox noun the tendency for moderately obese people with certain chronic diseases, such as diabetes and heart disease, to live longer than people of normal weight with the same diseases
Whatever the explanation for the obesity paradox turns out to be, most experts agree that the data cast an uncertain light on the role of body fat.
dench adjective slang very good; cool
He said: ‘When he says DENCH around the boss I don’t think he knows what’s going on’.
like-gating noun the practice of requiring a user to ‘like’ a brand’s page so that they can access content from that brand on social-networking websites
Well, like-gating on facebook isn’t exactly a new thing. Thousands of companies on Facebook us [sic] it. It’s pretty much page one of most of the Social Media marketing guides I’ve seen [...]
site scraper noun a piece of software that collects content from other sites
‘Use of site scrapers, article crawlers, or other automated methods/scripts to mine the article content of GoArticles are expressly forbidden unless permission has been specifically granted by GoArticles.com’ read one warning.
mansplain verb informal (of a man) to explain something patronisingly to a woman
Lupe Fiasco Mansplains Some More in the Video for ‘Bitch Bad’
on the bubble idiom at a point where success or failure will be decided
I didn’t dive well. I was on the bubble. I’m 18th so I’m in [the final].
jigsaw family noun a family in which two or more sets of children from previous relationships live together
catfishing noun informal the practice of lying about yourself in an online environment in order to impress others, especially to lure someone into a relationship
Believe it or not, a little controlled catfishing is something that plenty of the Instant Message generation has experimented with, even if we’re unwilling to admit it. Really, who hasn’t tried to escape their reality by pretending to be a 17-year-old varsity baseball player in an N SYNC chat room every now and then?
walker noun a platonic male friend with whom to go for walks, to the theatre, etc.
She had been discussing this with two other single women of her age, and she’d said her ideal walker would be a musician [...]
bantz noun slang banter; witty chat
Harry - party-loving prince, lord of the bantz, royal lad on tour - was captured on camera-phone last weekend, bear-hugging a bikini-less babe in a Las Vegas hotel [...]
pay-neutral adjective describes work that only covers expenses once childcare costs, travel, etc. has been deducted
Charities warned of the rise of the ‘pay-neutral’ job; where you only earn enough to cover childcare, so you’re effectively working for nothing.
[Grazia (UK fashion magazine) 1 Sept 2012]
Soaring childcare costs, stagnant salaries and government cuts to tax credits and benefits, have led to an increasing number of people being thrown into so-called ‘pay-neutral’ work.
[www.guardian.co.uk 01 Sept 2012]
spankbuster noun informal a popular novel featuring scenes of sado-masochism
Sales of 5.3m in print and ebook drive EL James’s ‘spankbuster’ past the Highway Code and Dan Brown