Catfish, Dubstep And Selfie Are Now In The Dictionary, So Tell Your Mom To Look It Up — mtv.com

“Turducken” is in the Merriam-Webster dictionary now. Turducken. Don’t know what that is? Look it up, and while you’re at it, instead of trying to explain to your mom what a selfie, hashtag, paywall or freegan is, tell her to check out the 2014 edition of the collegiate dictionary. Among the 150 other new words that made it into the MW this year: steampunk, Auto-Tune, catfish, crowdfunding, dubstep, baby bump, big data, e-waste, fracking, hot spot, motion capture, paywall, social networking, spoiler alert and unfriend.

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