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The Real Meanings Of The New Oxford Dictionaries Words Of 2014

Poke Staff. Updated November 18th, 2014

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The Oxford English Dictionaries have chosen ‘vape’ as their word of the year. But what does vape and the other shortlisted words really mean?

real_oxford_definitions_1vape

real_oxford_definitions_2bae

real_oxford_definitions_3contactless

real_oxford_definitions_4normcore

real_oxford_definitions_5slack

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