BBC NEWS | UK | TV provides new dictionary entries
"The powerful influence of popular culture is evident in the latest edition of the New Oxford Dictionary of English, published on Thursday. The second edition of the dictionary - considered to be the foremost single-volume authority on the English language - includes many new words and phrases which started life on television." (As well as a bunch of "Internet" inspired additions.)
"bada bing", "lovely jubbly", "muppet", "reality television", "bootylicious", "popstrels", "turntablists", "da bomb", "cyberslacker", "fatoush", "blamestorming", "SARS", "cantopop", "bupkis", "noughties", "muggle", "robata", "nerd", "geek", "bad hair day", and "24/7", "hacktivists", "shovelware" and people who "egosurf"m "e-mails" have become "emails" and we are now "online" not "on-line", "a Brazilian", "Foo Fighters", "Duckworth Lewis", "pathogenicity islands", "shotgun cloning" and "terminator genes".
K-Collector