Josiah
Senior Member
- Location
- 50 miles east of Cincinnati, OH
1990: bushlips (similar to "bullshit" – stemming from President George H. W. Bush's 1988 "Read my lips: no new taxes" broken promise)
1991: mother of all (as in Saddam Hussein's foretold "Mother of all battles")
1992: Not! (meaning "just kidding")
1993: information superhighway
1994: cyber, morph (to change form)
1995: web and (to) newt (to act aggressively as a newcomer, like Speaker Newt Gingrich during the Contract with America)
1996: mom (as in "soccer mom")
1997: millennium bug
1998: e- (as in "e-mail" or "e-commerce")
1999: Y2K
2000: chad (from the 2000 presidential election controversy in Florida)
2001: 9-11
2002: weapons of mass destruction (WMD)
2003: metrosexual
2004: red state, blue state, purple state (from the United States presidential election, 2004)
2005: truthiness (popularized on The Colbert Report)
2006: plutoed (demoted or devalued, as happened to the former planet Pluto)
2007: subprime (an adjective used to describe a risky or less than ideal loan, mortgage, or investment)
2008: bailout (in the specific sense of the rescue by the government of companies on the brink of failure, including large players in the banking industry)
2009: tweet (a short, timely message sent via the Twitter.com service, and verb, the act of sending such a message)
2010: app (an abbreviated form of application, a software program for a computer or phone operating system)
2011: occupy (verb or noun inspired from the Occupy movements of 2011)
2012: hashtag (a word or phrase preceded by a hash symbol (#), used on Twitter to mark a topic or make a commentary)
2013: because introducing a noun, adjective, or other part of speech (e.g., “because reasons,” “because awesome”).
2014: #blacklivesmatter: hashtag used as protest over blacks killed at the hands of police (esp. Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo. and Eric Garner in Staten Island).
1991: mother of all (as in Saddam Hussein's foretold "Mother of all battles")
1992: Not! (meaning "just kidding")
1993: information superhighway
1994: cyber, morph (to change form)
1995: web and (to) newt (to act aggressively as a newcomer, like Speaker Newt Gingrich during the Contract with America)
1996: mom (as in "soccer mom")
1997: millennium bug
1998: e- (as in "e-mail" or "e-commerce")
1999: Y2K
2000: chad (from the 2000 presidential election controversy in Florida)
2001: 9-11
2002: weapons of mass destruction (WMD)
2003: metrosexual
2004: red state, blue state, purple state (from the United States presidential election, 2004)
2005: truthiness (popularized on The Colbert Report)
2006: plutoed (demoted or devalued, as happened to the former planet Pluto)
2007: subprime (an adjective used to describe a risky or less than ideal loan, mortgage, or investment)
2008: bailout (in the specific sense of the rescue by the government of companies on the brink of failure, including large players in the banking industry)
2009: tweet (a short, timely message sent via the Twitter.com service, and verb, the act of sending such a message)
2010: app (an abbreviated form of application, a software program for a computer or phone operating system)
2011: occupy (verb or noun inspired from the Occupy movements of 2011)
2012: hashtag (a word or phrase preceded by a hash symbol (#), used on Twitter to mark a topic or make a commentary)
2013: because introducing a noun, adjective, or other part of speech (e.g., “because reasons,” “because awesome”).
2014: #blacklivesmatter: hashtag used as protest over blacks killed at the hands of police (esp. Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo. and Eric Garner in Staten Island).
