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Booyah — Dictionary.com Is 30! A Trip Back to 1995

Learning To Love The Wine You’re With

Food & Drink

Burpees And Other Exercises Explained

Hobbies & Passions

The Truth Is In The X-Files

Pop Culture

Fantastic Festivities Around The World

History

Dictionary.com’s Suggestions For Wordie New Year’s Resolutions

Fun

Lyrics We Totally Didn’t Get As Kids

Pop Culture

Dictionary.com’s Night Before Christmas

Fun

Non-Traditional Holidays We Should Be Celebrating

Holidays

The Sinful Holidays People Just Can’t Get Enough Of

Food & Drink

Unlocking Coded Video Game Slang

Hobbies & Passions

’s Eggnog?

Food & Drink

Dictionary.com’s Suggestions For #NationalHolidays

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Words We Know Because Of Star Trek

Whether or not you're a Trekkie, you are bound to know (and even use) some of these phrases made popular by the beloved sci-fi franchise, Star Trek.

Beam over to these words!

Why Do Americans Call Football “Soccer”?

Why does the most popular sport in the world have two names? Learn about where the names "football" and soccer" come from, and who uses them now.

Find out which term came first.

Have You Ever Heard Of These Strange Studies?

From Escapology to Scatology, we’re touring the campus of out-of-the-ordinary fields of study in which some people specialize. Did your campus have these majors?

Discover your next major.