- bushlips (similar to "bullshit" – stemming from President George H. W. Bush's 1988 "Read my lips: no new taxes" broken promise)
- mother of all (as in Saddam Hussein's foretold "Mother of all battles")
- Not! (meaning "just kidding")
- information superhighway
- cyber, morph (to change form)
- web and (to) newt (to act aggressively as a newcomer, like Speaker Newt Gingrichduring the Contract with America)
- mom (as in "soccer mom")
- millennium bug
- e- (as in "e-mail" or "e-commerce")
- Y2K
- chad (from the 2000 presidential election controversy in Florida)
- 9-11
- weapons of mass destruction (WMD)
- metrosexual
- red state, blue state, purple state (from the United States presidential election, 2004)
- truthiness (popularized on The Colbert Report)
- plutoed (demoted or devalued, as happened to the former planet Pluto)
- default (an adjective used to describe a risky or less than ideal loan, mortgage, or investment)
- bailout (in the specific sense of the rescue by the government of companies on the brink of failure, including large players in the banking industry)
- tweet (a short, timely message sent via the Twitter.com service, and verb, the act of sending such a message)
- app (an abbreviated form of application, a software program for a computer or phone operating system)
- occupy (verb or noun inspired from the Occupy movements of 2011)
- hashtag (a word or phrase preceded by a hash symbol (#), used on Twitter to mark a topic or make a commentary)
Answer (highlight to read) : These are the word of the year in the USA from 1990 to 2012
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