Thursday, 29 August 2013

Long Connect

Connect :-



  •  bushlips (similar to "bullshit" – stemming from President George H. W. Bush's 1988 "Read  my lips: no new taxes" broken promise)
  •  mother of all (as in Saddam Hussein's foretold "Mother of all battles")
  •  Not! (meaning "just kidding")
  •  information superhighway
  •  cybermorph (to change form)
  •  web and (to) newt (to act aggressively as a newcomer, like Speaker Newt Gingrichduring  the Contract with America)
  •  mom (as in "soccer mom")
  •  millennium bug
  •  e- (as in "e-mail" or "e-commerce")
  •  Y2K
  •  chad (from the 2000 presidential election controversy in Florida)
  •  9-11
  •  weapons of mass destruction (WMD)
  •  metrosexual
  •  red stateblue statepurple state (from the United States presidential election, 2004)
  •  truthiness (popularized on The Colbert Report)
  •  plutoed (demoted or devalued, as happened to the former planet Pluto)
  •  default (an adjective used to describe a risky or less than ideal loan, mortgage, or  investment)
  •  bailout (in the specific sense of the rescue by the government of companies on the brink of failure, including large players in the banking industry)
  • tweet (a short, timely message sent via the Twitter.com service, and verb, the act of sending such a message)
  •  app (an abbreviated form of application, a software program for a computer or phone  operating system)
  •  occupy (verb or noun inspired from the Occupy movements of 2011)
  •  hashtag (a word or phrase preceded by a hash symbol (#), used on Twitter to mark a topic or make a commentary)



Answer (highlight to read) : These are the word of the year in the USA from 1990 to 2012


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