DICTIONARY ADDS 640 NEW WORDS AND DEFINITIONS.

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Buzzy (as in "generating buzz") joins more than 640 new words and meanings added to the Merriam-Webster dictionary. These new terms and uses offer a window into how the English language is changing and expanding, and reflect a wide variety of fields and endeavors, from business to sports, from social media to today's headlines.

The world of entertainment brings us the new term bottle episode, "an inexpensively produced episode of a television series that is typically confined to one setting." While not known for its bottle episodes, "The Walking Dead" series has inspired some viewers to prepare a bug-out bag. Every show has its starts, of course--that is "an extremely devoted fan."

"Our language is constantly evolving, and we observe and report on these changes," explains Peter Sokolowski, editor at large for Merriam-Webster. "This means not only the new words in our vocabulary, but the new uses of existing words like peak--as in peak television--and the disparaging meaning of snowflake."

Sports enthusiasts may be familiar with the term garbage time, defined as "the final moments or minutes of a game in which one side has an insurmountable lead, substitutes often enter the game in...

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