Sixty Years of New Words!
Random House Webster's College Dictionary has staked its reputation on its
ability to capture new words faster than any other dictionary. Take
a glimpse into the growth of our language-- check out these
new words that came into English from the 1940's through the 1990's.
1940's
ack-ack, apartheid, atom bomb, baby-sit, barf, bazooka, cheeseburger,
crash-land, flying saucer, gobbledygook
1950's
aerospace, alphanumeric, brainstorming, car wash, cha-cha, digitize,
do-it-yourself, ethnohistory, in-house, meter maid
1960's
area code, ASCII, biohazard, Brownie point, crib death, doofus, disco,
glitch, microwave oven, Op-Ed, sexism
1970's
airhead, bean counter, biofeedback, deadbeat dad, diskette, electronic mail,
junk food, -meister, surrogate mother, gentrify
1980's
AIDS, boom box, caller ID, channel surf, cyberpunk,
dis, fragile X syndrome, greenmail, sandwich generation, trophy wife, voice mail, wannabe
1990's
anatomically correct, bad hair day, brux, digerati, granny
dumping, medicide, olestra, soccer mom, step aerobics, uptalk, World Wide Web