NEWWORDS.CBS 07/07/06 10:57 PM-DLR   1:31     07/07/2006-8:06
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A wordification update.  This is Dave Ross....

Merriam-Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary is out with its latest list of concepts that have now been officially wordified.   And the big winner this year is GOOGLE.  

Google, small "g", is now in the dictionary as a verb, meaning to use the Internet to look stuff up.  As in ... to Google Angelina Jolie, or even to Google yourself.   Just be careful.
 
"Gastric bypass" is there for the first time -- we all know what that
is-- a two-lane road that has no drive-thru restaurants on it.

There's also "supersize" -- which is what happens to you if you miss the turnoff for the gastric bypass.

What else here -- 

Ah RINGTONE!  A euphemism for "Unstoppable Videogame Music coming from the next cubicle because some idiot didn't take his phone with him to lunch."

It's companion phrase is the term "Wring NECK" which is already in the dictionary.

"Biodisel" is in the new dictionary -- but sadly "Road Whiskey"  is
not. 

I myself coined the term "Road Whiskey" when I discovered that several of my friends had set up a backyard distillery to brew their own biodiesel using discarded oil from Chinese restaurants.  At least that's what they SAY they're doing.  And I'm pretty sure they are because their Mercedes smells like General Tso's Chicken.

[CUT FROM CBS FEED:  I'm also still waiting for "gundamentalist" to make it -- that's a guy who worships his weapons as a religion.]

Ah but my favorite in the new dictionary is this one:   Agritourism --
officially defined as "the practice of touring agricultural areas to see farms and often to participate in farm activities."

See -- THAT's why there so much traffic in the Arizona desert.

Now this.
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