Oxford Dictionaries, your source for hawt duckface lolcats (and 997 more words)

Thanks to every selfie you took between 2005 and today, "duck face" has finally been added to the venerable Oxford Dictionaries

It's joined there by 1,000 other popular words and phrases from the pop culture lexicon, such as "lolcat" and "five-second rule," known and beloved by anyone who has ever dropped a perfectly good piece of candy on the ground.

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The update come just weeks after Oxford Dictionaries, part of the Oxford University Press, announced its choice for 2014 word of the year: "vape." The editors defined the word as a verb ("to inhale and exhale the vapor" produced by an e-cigarette) and a noun (referring to the e-cigarette itself). Read more...

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