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NEW YORK — Merriam-Webster on Thursday announced a major overhaul<\/a> of its popular \u201cCollegiate\u201d dictionary. The company has added more than 5,000 terms. Here’s a few of them with definitions \u2014 and some usage examples of our own.<\/p>\n

DEFINITION: An extremely aggressive or energetic style or manner that someone adopts temporarily to overpower an opponent in a fight or competition.<\/p>\n

EXAMPLE: He needed to go beast mode to crush the hot dog eating contest.<\/p>\n

DEFINITION: A physique regarded as typical of an average father, especially one that is slightly overweight and not extremely muscular.<\/p>\n

EXAMPLE: Harry rocked a dad bod even before the birth of his first child.<\/p>\n

DEFINITION: A cellphone that does not include advanced software features, such as email or an internet browser typically found on smartphones.<\/p>\n

EXAMPLE: Want to really get lost? Destroy your smartphone, buy a burner dumbphone and head for the hills.<\/p>\n

DEFINITION: Involving or advocating the direct sale and distribution of food from its point of origin to customers.<\/p>\n

EXAMPLE: Farm-to-table, shmarm-to-table. Jack wants a Big Mac, not a pricey restaurant meal.<\/p>\n

DEFINITION: A firm refusal or rejection of something, such as an offer.<\/p>\n

EXAMPLE: The egg salad\u2019s been in the sun for six hours. That\u2019s a hard pass for me, Suzy.<\/p>\n

DEFINITION: A person\u2019s characteristic means of showing love or care for another.<\/p>\n

EXAMPLE: Charlie’s dating profile says his love language is making mac and cheese. Could go either way, dude.<\/p>\n

DEFINITION: A distinctive, earthy, usually pleasant odor that is associated with rainfall, especially when following a warm, dry period. <\/p>\n

EXAMPLE: Molly refused to let the weather dampen her mood, especially as the petrichor reminded her of cozy rainy days past. <\/p>\n

DEFINITION: Romantic appeal or charm.<\/p>\n

EXAMPLE: \u201cYou come here often?\u201d Joe’s rizz was way, WAY off.<\/p>\n

DEFINITION: A sidelong glance or gaze, especially when expressing scorn, suspicion, disapproval or veiled curiosity.<\/p>\n

EXAMPLE: Anna side-eyes every man in white socks and sandals. That’s all.<\/p>\n

DEFINITION: A unit of measure for the calculating speed of a computer equal to one trillion floating-point operations per second.<\/p>\n

EXAMPLE: Cough up enough teraflops to let me bed rot with my PlayStation. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK — Merriam-Webster on Thursday announced a major overhaul of its popular \u201cCollegiate\u201d dictionary. The company has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38593,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[31397,127,114,146,85,46,4212,231,125],"class_list":["post-38592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-31397","tag-article","tag-business","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-language","tag-lifestyle","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}