Ten craziest new Oxford dictionary words, from moobs to squee

Gender-fluid, skronk and YOLO among more than 500 new entries to the Oxford English Dictionary this year

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Slacktivism, moobs and 'Merica have all made the cut in the Oxford English Dictionary's latest list of words to be added to the prestigious tome of the English language.

More than 70 editors have been working on a Third Edition of the dictionary since 2000, the first major overhaul since 1989. As part of the process, every three months the OED updates its online database with new words and new senses of existing words – this time, more than 500 of them.

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