What Words Were Added to the Dictionary the Year You Were Born?

Merriam-Webster launched a fun distraction called the Time Traveler to find when a word was first used in print.

Pick a year from their drop down menu and you'll see what hip words coincide with your birth year. For example, let's go with 1988, the year I graced this world.

Here are some words that made the MW cut:

Boomerang child

F-bomb

Docuseries

Swole

Queer theory

I also think it's incredibly rude "unibrow" and my birth happened in the same year. It was a prophecy that 12-year-old me didn't deserve.

Click here to see what words were added the year you were born.


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