50 Funniest Pop Culture Sayings That Made it to the Dictionary

Each year, the dictionary adds new words to its collection. Whether they've been used a certain amount of times, or have just entered common language, there's no limit to the absurdity of what can be included. Here, we'll take a look at some of the funniest pop culture sayings that slipped in to the dictionary.

General

These sayings are all over pop culture, and now, the dictionary.

1. Kidult: Kidults are adults interested in games, TV, and more for kids.
2. Retrosexual: Retrosexual men don't spend a whole lot of time or money on their appearance.
3. Intexticated: Driving while texting, or intexticated, can be just as bad as driving intoxicated.
4. Grrrl: Grrrl has been added to describe independent, aggressive young women.
5. Staycation: Bring your dictionary along on your staycation.
6. Frenemy: Do you have true friends, or just frenemies?
7. Singleton: Singletons were made famous by Bridget Jones's Diary.
8. Serial monogamy: If you've jumped from one relationship to another, you might be taking part in serial monogamy.
9. Green collar: Green collar workers have jobs that protect the natural environment.
10. Frankenfood: Frankenfood makes genetically modified crops sound downright creepy.
11. Locavore: If you like to eat locally grown foods, you're a locavore.
12. Lookism: Lookism is discrimination on the grounds of appearance.
13. Gaydar: If you can spot a homosexual a mile away, you might have great gaydar.
14. Drama queen: Embrace the dictionary drama with drama queens.
15. Bouncebackability: If you can recover from a setback, you've got bouncebackability.
16. Blamestorming: Blamestorming is a catchy way to talk about collectively blaming someone for a mistake.
17. Sexting: Sexters send sexy texts and pictures by cell phone.
18. Adultescent: Adultescents stay interested in youth culture.

Computers & Internet

Here you'll find sayings that originated in computer or Internet usage.

19. Google: Want to know when this word was added? Just google it.
20. Screenager: Screenagers are young people with an aptitude for computers and the Internet.
21. Leet: Leetspeak has a dictionary of its own.
22. Webisode: View TV episodes online with webisodes.
23. Mouse potato: Do you spend too much time on the computer? You might be a mouse potato.
24. Ego-surfing: Google yourself to do some ego-surfing.
25. Cyberslacking: Killing time at work with the Internet? That's now called cyberslacking.
26. Unfriend: Facebook's term unfriend has made it to the dictionary.

TV

These words and phrases made it from TV.

27. D'oh!: Homer Simpson's annoyed D'oh was added in 2001.
28. Property porn: Property porn makes checking out homes obsessive.
29. Wardrobe malfunction: Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake's mistake made it to the dictionary.
30. Yadda yadda: Elaine's phrase from Seinfeld has made it to the dictionary and helped prevent boring details everywhere.
31. Meh: Don't get too excited about meh getting added to the dictionary.

Gaming

Video games have made their contribution to the dictionary with these words.

32. Meatspace: Meatspace recognizes the physical world, rather than the virtual.
33. Noob: Noob has become a new word in the English language.
34. Achievement whore: If you're addicted to great game scores, you might be an achievement whore.

Food

The pop culture of food can be found in the dictionary.

35. Brain freeze: Watch out for brain freeze when eating ice cream.
36. Supersize: Get an extra helping with this supersized dictionary word.

Fashion

These pop culture fashion terms are now in the dictionary.

37. Unibrow: Grab some tweezers-unibrow is taking over the dictionary.
38. Soul patch: This small growth added to the dictionary has soul.
39. Bling: Bling has added some glitz to the dictionary.

Movies

Check out these pop culture sayings from the movies.

40. Threequel: Hollywood has made enough threequels to necessitate a new word.
41. Fanboy: Fanboys have an enthusiastic devotion to movies, comics, games, or even products.
42. Chick flick: Chick flicks appeal almost exclusively to women.
43. Muggle: The Oxford English Dictionary had to add "muggle" from Harry Potter because it's become so widespread.
44. Full monty: The full monty lays it all out in the dictionary.
45. Mini-me: Mini-me means that the dictionary has been changed by a movie about a horny British spy.

Politics

The dictionary has political culture to thank for these words.

46. Prerebuttal: A prerebuttal allows you to make a rebuttal for an accusation before it's even made.
47. Waterboarding: Read about this controversial interrogation technique in the dictionary.

Music

These entries represent music's contributions to the dictionary.

48. Riffage: Riffage is just a fun way to describe guitar riffs.
49. Crunk: The dictionary has gotten crunk.
50. Jiggy: Get jiggy with the dictionary.