Every year, Merriam-Webster bequeaths society a gift: a bunch of brand-new words that have officially been introduced into the English language. This year, a mind-boggling 840 words were inducted into the dictionary’s vaunted pages. And here’s the TL;DR (that’s one of the new ones, by the way): You’ve likely already been using a whole lot of them.
From marg to mocktail, blockchain to biohacking, and all the slang and rando abbreviations in between, here are some of the newest words added to the lexicon in 2018
1-Bougie
2.Bingeable
3. TL;DR
4.Marg
5.Fintech
6.Wordie
7.Hangry
8.Blockchain
10.Time Suck
11.Glamping
12.Hophead
13.Airplane Mode
14.Biohacking
15.Rando
16.Mansplain
17.Instagramming
18.Generation Z
19.G.O.A.T.
20.Mocktail
21.Bubblehead
22.Adorbs
23.Me Time