TL;DR

TL;DR
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Apparently, words don’t even have to be words anymore to make it into the dictionary – this one even has punctuation! No idea what it means? We’ll give you a clue: Moby Dick, War and Peace, and most articles in the New Yorker could merit a TL;DR. Still not sure? It’s short for “too long; didn’t read.” But now, the abbreviation has gone beyond its original usage to become a noun or adjective meaning summary information: “The TL;DR of the new policy is that…” or “The TL;DR video gives the basic points of the Constitution.”

TL;DR is one of 16 text abbreviations everyone should know by now.

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Hophead

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If you thought “hophead” was an old-fashioned term for someone who uses drugs, you’d be correct: Urban Dictionary notes it goes all the way back before the beatniks of the ’50s to the jazz era of the 1920s and ’30s. But Merriam-Webster has added a new slang definition of the word for today: simply someone who likes to drink beer, especially hoppy beer and ale. For example, “Hopheads will go crazy for the taste of this IPA.”

Bougie

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Pronounced with a soft “g” – so not “boogy” or “boozy” but “boojy” – this derogatory term for the middle class is short for bourgeois. It’s used condescendingly to refer to those overly concerned with wealth and possessions. Interestingly, Merriam-Webster notes this term goes back to the 1960s, but has just recently made it into the dictionary. Use it as an adjective: “I don’t go to that bar anymore because it’s too bougie” or as a noun: “I don’t go to that bar anymore because it’s full of bougies.”

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Mansplain

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Any woman can recognise the mansplaining phenomena: The male tendency to talk condescendingly to a woman about things that she already knows well but that he likely doesn’t. (“He mansplained to me how to do my job.”) Some may say the word is now being overused, but its contribution to language can be seen in the rash of other “splaining words” that are applicable to all sorts of situations: whitesplaining, straight-splaining, left-splaining, and even potluck-splaining.

Fave

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This is an easy one, and probably one of the slang terms most people have used. Fave is short for favourite, and the truncation traces all the way back to 1938, according to Merriam-Webster – yet the dictionary only recently added it. Merriam-Webster also allows for an alternate spelling without the ending “e,” so “fav,” although this is highly unusual. Most people would use it in a sentence like this: “My fave word in the dictionary has to be ‘fave.’”

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