Mouse potatoes and googling go mainstream

11:38 - Thursday 6 July 2006 by From the Web
Source: Tom's Hardware – Keywords: google, becomes, verb Category : Miscellaneous

Mouse potatoes joined couch potatoes, google officially became a verb and drama queens finally found the limelight on Thursday when they crossed over from popular culture to mainstream English language.

The mouse potato (who spends as much time on the computer as his/her 1990s counterpart did on the couch), the himbo (attractive, vacuous - and male) and the excessively emotional drama queen were among 100 new words added to the 2006 update of America's best-selling dictionary, the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary.

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