| 2011 WOTY | - squeezed middle
- (the middle class, who neither receive government assistance nor are wealthy enough to easily pay taxes [from British Labour Party leader Ed Miliband; also Oxford American word])
| - Burqini
- (Trademark, blend of burqa and bikini; swimsuit for Muslim women, with hood, tunic, and leggings)
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| 2011 Also Rans | - Arab Spring
- (Spring 2010 protests and revolutions in various Arab countries, including the ousting of leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya [term based on 1968 Prague Spring])
- fracking
- (clipping of [hydraulic] fracturing; oil and natural gas extraction with high-pressure fluid to cause fractures)
| - patchwork economy
- (trade system with prosperous and unprosperous regions)
- announceable
- (government press release for good PR or to distract from bad PR)
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| 2010 WOTY | - big society
- (community and volunteer responsibility for a large amount of services)
| - googleganger
- (blend of Google and doppleganger; someone with the same name as another that is found in Web search results)
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| 2010 Also Rans | - clickjacking
- (blend of click and hijacking; using (literally) transparent or misleading clickable content to gain private information or computer control while the users think they're clicking for something else)
- upcycling
- (blend of up and recycling; recycling that creates items of more value than the originals)
| - vuvuzela
- (South African long and extremely loud plastic horn used by soccer fans, featured at the 2010 FIFA World Cup)
- shockumentary
- (blend of shock and documentary; a documentary with sensationalized violence [similar to fiction exploitation films] or sensationalized attacks on institutions [as used in tabloid journalism])
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| 2009 WOTY | [Unknown] | - shovel-ready
- (easily started re: infrastructure projects)
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| 2009 Also Rans | [Unknown] | - cyberbully
- (online harassment or harasser)
- heritage media
- (old media, traditional media, newspapers / television / etc. seen as losing power to the new media of the Internet [online video, blogs, etc.])
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| 2008 WOTY | - credit crunch
- (difficulty getting a loan, as after the history of bad loans that came to light in the Global Financial Crisis going on in 2008)
| - toxic debt
- (financial debt that turns out to be worthless or of little value to the lender, one cause of the Global Financial Crisis going on in 2008)
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| 2008 Also Rans | - googleability
- (also googlability, blend of Google and ability; how easily one can find something on the Google search engine, both businesses that want to be found and personal information one doesn't want to be found)
- scuppie
- (partial acronym for Socially Conscious Upwardly-mobile Person or Socially Conscious Urban Professional, in contrast to the 1980s' wealth-focused yuppie [Young Urban Professional, sometimes given as Young Upwardly mobile Professional], itself in contrast to the 1960s' socially conscious yippie [Youth International Party], inspired by hippie [hip, as in "up to date"])
| - bromance
- (blend of bro [clipping from brother, as in "buddy"] and romance; heterosexual loving relationship between close male friends)
- flashpacker
- (blend of flash[y] and backpacker; low-frills traveler who still has some conveniences such as high-tech gadgets)
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| 2007 WOTY |
- footprint
- (as in carbon footprint or environmental footprint; environmental impact of fossil fuels)
| - pod slurping
- (based on iPod; wrongful downloading of large amounts of data from an unattended computer to an iPod or USB flash drive)
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| 2007 Also Rans | [Unknown] | - infomania
- (blend of info [clipping of information] and -mania, seemingly influenced by the near rhyme nymphomania; information overload and inattentiveness, such as the constant need to check E-mail and text messages)
- carbon footprint
- (environmental impact of fossil fuels)
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| 2006 WOTY | - bovvered
- (Cockney pronunciation of bothered; from the catchphrase "Am I bovvered?" ["Do I care?"] from the ill-mannered teen character Lauren by comedian Catherine Tate)
| - muffin top
- (bulge of midriff fat accentuated by tight pants / trousers or skirt)
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| 2006 Also Rans | - yeppie
- (partial acronym for Young Experimenting Perfection-seeker, influenced by yuppie [Young Urban Professional, sometimes given as Young Upwardly mobile Professional], itself based on yippie [Youth International Party], inspired by hippie [hip, as in "up to date"]; youth who are uncommitted to anything)
- offlish
- (blend of office and English; business buzzwords and jargon)
- affluenza
- (blend of affluence and influenza; feeling unfulfilled by the pursuit of wealth for happiness)
- administrivia
- (blend of administration and trivia; dull details involved in administration)
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