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Fans of e-cigarettes — and their marijuana-based equivalent — may want to take a moment right now for a celebratory puff. That's because Oxford Dictionaries has just named its word of the year 2014, and it's "vape."
The word, which the Dictionaries' blog defines as both a verb and a noun for the whole category of wildly popular tobacco or cannabis atomizing devices, beat out some potent competition. Its rivals included the highly divisive term of endearment "bae," "indyref" (a popular hashtag for the Scottish independence referendum), "contactless" (as in payments), "slactivism" (ie. slacker activism) and another weed culture-related noun, "budtender." (Dude, we're, like, sensing a theme here.) Read more...
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