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

Gambling Terms To Get Ahead

Hobbies & Passions

BLURGH! You Fracking Smeghead!

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Everyday English Words With Ancient Arabic Roots

Food & Drink

’Tis the Season for Explaining Common Holiday Phrases

Holidays

The 12 Weirdest Cocktail Names

Food & Drink

Wild Dance Idioms That Will Get You Moving

Hobbies & Passions

Gearhead Slang For The Fast Lane

Hobbies & Passions

Are You A Master Of The Arts? (A Quiz of...

Pop Culture

Whiskey Words To Know

Food & Drink

8 Absurd Sayings Invented By “Family Guy” Characters

Pop Culture

10 Modern Words That Shouldn’t Exist Anymore

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Why Are There So Many Words About Fandom?

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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.