There are several words that have found their way into our day to day conversations. While you have been throwing the words around almost everyday, you may have little idea that most of these words have come to existence surprisingly recently. Check out the list of such new-age lingo to find out which word one among them was invented the year you were born.
1. Apparently, a New York magazine food critic, Gael Greene was the first to coin the term.
2. The term caught up with the advent of ADHD pills used for calming hyperactive people.
3. The term came into existence with the remarkable progress of computing in the same year.
4. The first ever Air Guitar handbook emerged in the same year.
5. Not that there weren’t shopaholics before…
6. A mix between English and Scottish slangs, the term was the coolest lingo during the 80s.
7. Wall Street Journal coined the term for the very first time.
8. The word has a certain ring to it that sounds just apt for dude with dough.
9. Hip-hop had just got cooler that year, didn’t it?
10. The best rock stars die at 27. People born in 1989 turn 27 this year. Just saying.
11. Here comes the 90s and the advent of emotions and icons.Â
12. When they finally started naming the modern genres of experimental music…
13. There couldn’t have been a better word for appreciating your favorite pop music.Â
14. Being a geek had never been cooler before…
15. The year the kids started becoming too cool for old school.
16. The punks found a new way to paint the city walls and they named it.
17. Because it was important to demarcate between good and shitty food joints.
18. J.K Rowling invented the word and we had no choice but to add it our urban dictionary.
19. The media picked up the term during the Kosovo Conflict.Â
20. The word caught in with Baby Gangsta’s 1999 rap album.
21. The more office friendly version of a Mohawk.
22. The word was first used in an issue of TransWorld Surf in 2001 from where it made it to the Oxford Dictionary.
23. The term came into being with world’s first Parkour Jam in 2002.
24. It happened for the first time in Manhattan in the same year.
25. The Australian Sunday Telegraph Magazine used the term for the very first time.
26. Merriam Webster coined this modern business term as recently was 2006
27. The users invented the feature themselves and thus the name came into being.
28. Men have been photobombing since ages – they just didn’t have a name for it until 2008.Â
29. They hit the fashion and fitness market since 2009 but you feel as if they have been there since forever.
