‘Moobs’ and ‘YOLO’ among 1,000 words and terms added to dictionary
Moobs, a term for unusually prominent breasts on a man; gender-fluid, referring to a person who does not identify with a single fixed gender; and YOLO, the acronym for the phrase “you only live once”, made the cut in the OED’s quarterly update.
Food-related terms including cheese eater, chefdom and cheeseball will appear in the new edition alongside Yogalates, the combination of yoga and Pilates, and Westminster bubble, an insular community of politicians.
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