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FadedMullet

(310 posts)
Tue Jun 3, 2025, 02:29 PM Jun 3

Words that were first used in the year you were born. Just found this on the intertoobs from Merrian-Webster's.....

......website. My birth year, 1947, introduced apartheid, afterburner, bikini, bank card, counterculture, fair trade, flight attendant, flying saucer, hydrogen bomb, kibbutznik, methadone, Negroni, party-pooper, role-model, red carpet, swim fin, spinal tap (not the band) and strip search. Also new that year was "flop sweat" which does surprise me.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/time-traveler/1947

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Words that were first used in the year you were born. Just found this on the intertoobs from Merrian-Webster's..... (Original Post) FadedMullet Jun 3 OP
Kinda cool odins folly Jun 3 #1
Gonna be hard to beat this year's... 3825-87867 Jun 3 #2
Won't say which year is mine, but I'm a bit surprised -- maybe sad -- that "desegregate" was not coined earlier. Silent Type Jun 3 #3
A few of mine: LudwigPastorius Jun 3 #4
Wow, some of my year words have defined my life!! Coventina Jun 3 #5
a few from my birth year: surrealAmerican Jun 3 #6
Words used the DAY I was born True Dough Jun 3 #7
LOL! Coventina Jun 3 #8
Well, you did come with a great sense of humor, so there's that. FadedMullet Jun 3 #9

Silent Type

(10,470 posts)
3. Won't say which year is mine, but I'm a bit surprised -- maybe sad -- that "desegregate" was not coined earlier.
Tue Jun 3, 2025, 02:53 PM
Jun 3

Maybe I shouldn't be surprised, since even portions of our armed forces were segregated back then. I guess better late than never.

It is an interesting site.

Coventina

(28,445 posts)
5. Wow, some of my year words have defined my life!!
Tue Jun 3, 2025, 03:46 PM
Jun 3

assault weapon
butt naked
coronavirus
data mining
fanfic
LED
safe sex
systemic racism
urban legend (that's me!)

surrealAmerican

(11,661 posts)
6. a few from my birth year:
Tue Jun 3, 2025, 05:56 PM
Jun 3

baby boomer
underfund
upscale
junk DNA
hit man
elevator music
disk drive
barcode

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