![]() ![]() The dictionary has mentioned Hat Flick being a racist gesture as well. The Urban dictionary has also described the Hat Flick as a gesture to greet someone. Talking generally on TikTok, the Hat Flick trend doesn’t seem to be racist at all. Some people say it is a racist thing whereas, other people have linked it with a desire to have sex with sheep or goats. However, two other claims are being made by the users on TikTok about its meaning. Cowboys from the past used to wear big hats and used to flick them when they met someone as a sign of greeting. One of the main meanings seems to be cool, like the cowboy thing. But salons have definitely picked up on them, and now they're very, very common.But, that doesn’t seem to be the case on TikTok at all. People wouldn't talk about it too much and just did them at home. “Bikini waxes are now old hat,” said Shannon Fluery, owner of the Brooks and Butterfield Day Spa in Northampton, where as many as 40 women come in for a bikini wax each week. Merriam-Webster traces the bikini wax's origins to 1985, and some spa owners say it's about time the hair-removal procedure made it into the dictionary. ![]() Others terms seem like they've been a long time coming. It was new, it designated that the fact that this was a civil act, and it suggested the bringing together of a union.” “Somewhere, someone said ‘civil union,’ and we all said ‘oh, that sounds good.’ It was a name that did what we wanted it to do. “We needed to decide a name for this, and we just didn't have one,” said Bill Lippert, a Democrat who now chairs the Legislature's House Judiciary Committee. Or it will come back, and everyone will go to the dictionary in a time of need to see how SARS is defined.” Either we'll never hear about SARS again, and if so, I've wasted three lines of type in the dictionary. “That was enough of a public health concern to get it in the dictionary right away,” Morse said. But some have a speedy rise to Merriam-Webster legitimacy, depending on the urgency of their meaning and impactĪmong this year's fastest climbers is SARS, the acronym for the severe acute respiratory syndrome that began making headlines just two years ago with an outbreak in China. It takes about 10 years for a promising word to get into the dictionary from the time it first gets noticed. ![]() Once a decade, the Collegiate Dictionary is completely rewritten, with some old words tossed out to accommodate the influx of about 10,000 of the latest nouns, verbs and adjectives. Every year, a few of them make it into print, followed by a succinct definition. The Springfield-based dictionary publisher has an ongoing list of about 17 million words it monitors. You could try your hand at being a cybrarian (a person who finds, collects, and manages information available on the Internet,) or as a hospitalist (“a physician who specializes in treating hospitalized patients of other physicians in order to minimize the number of hospital visits by other physicians.”) The new words offer explanations of emerging technologies and careers, thereby reflecting changes and developments in American society. “We're looking for words that show up in the contexts that the average adult might encounter.” “We have editors who spend a part of each day reading magazines and newspapers, looking for evidence of how words are being more commonly used,” said John Morse, Merriam-Webster's president and publisher. Try steganography, the “art or practice of concealing a message, image, or file within another message, image, or file.” That may not be the latest craze among hobbyists, but it's an activity that caught the attention of Merriam-Webster's lexicographers. So if you're not interested in movies meant to appeal to women, discreet hair removal procedures or running the risk of feeling a sudden shooting pain in the head caused by ingesting very cold food, maybe there's another endeavor to catch your fancy. The words are joined by 15 other new entries that make up the 1,664 pages of the newly published book.
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