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New words in OxfordDictionaries.com: phubbing – OxfordWords blog (May 23, 2016)

New wordphubbing-1200x330s in OxfordDictionaries.com: phubbing – OxfordWords blog (May 23, 2016)

In the 2004 film Mean Girls, high school queen bee Regina George famously chastises one of her minions for using a slang term she has invented (fetch, meaning ‘cool’):

Gretchen: That is so fetch!
Regina: Gretchen, stop trying to make fetch happen! It’s not going to happen!

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