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Awesomesauce, adj. : (U.S. Informal) extremely good; excellent
Bants (also bantz), pl. n.: (Brit. Informal) playfully teasing or mocking remarks exchanged with another person or group; banter
Beer o’clock, n.: an appropriate time of day for starting to drink beer
Blockchain, n.: a digital ledger in which transactions made in bit coin or another cryptocurrency are recorded chronologically and publicly
Brain fart, n.: (Informal) a temporary mental lapse or failure to reason correctly
Brexit, n.: a term for the potential or hypothetical departure of the United Kingdom from the European Union
Bruh, n.: (U.S. Informal) a male friend (often used as a form of address)
Buttdial, v.: (U.S. Informal) inadvertently call (someone) on a mobile phone in one’s rear trouser pocket
Butthurt, adj.: (U.S. Informal) overly or unjustifiably offended or resentful
Cakeage, n.: (Informal) a charge made by a restaurant for serving a cake they have not supplied themselves
Cat café, n.: a café or similar establishment where people pay to interact with cats housed on the premises
Fast-casual, adj.: denoting or relating to a type of high quality self service restaurant offering dishes that are prepared to order and more expensive than those available in a typical fast food restaurant
Fatberg, n.: a very large mass of solid waste in a sewerage system, consisting especially of congealed fat and personal hygiene product that has been flushed down the toilets
Fat-shame, v.: cause (someone judged to be fat or overweight) to feel humiliated by making mocking or critical comments about their size
Grexit, n.: a term for the potential withdrawal of Greece from the Eurozone (the economic region formed by those countries in European Union that use the Euro as their national currency)
Hangry, adj.: (Informal) bad-tempered or irritable as a result of hunger
MacGyver, v.: (U.S. Informal) make or repair (an object) in an improvised or inventive way, making use of whatever items that are at hand
Manspreading, n.: the practice whereby a man especially one travelling on public transport adopts a sitting position with his legs wide apart, in such a way as to encroach on an adjacent seat or seats
Mic drop, n.: (Informal, chiefly U.S.) an instance of deliberately dropping or tossing aside ones microphone at the end of a performance or speech one considers to have been particularly impressive
Mx, n.: a title used before a persons surname or full name by those who wish to avoid specifying their gender or by those who prefer not to identify themselves as male or female
Rage-quit, v.: (Informal) angrily abandon an activity or pursuit that has become frustrating especially the playing of a video game
Skippable, adj. : (of a part or feature of something) able to be omitted or passed over so as to get to the next part or feature
Wine o’clock, n.: an appropriate time of day for starting to drink wine
Credit: Oxford Words Blog
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