With each passing year, popular culture welcomes the heavy usage of new words and phrases for an indefinite period of time. Eventually, these terms go from daily mentions to casual references to ...

Don't worry — if you don't know what the word "GIF" means, now you can look it up in the Oxford American Dictionary, which just named the 25-year-old acronym, which stands for "graphic interchange ...

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Donald Trump is our brains on GIFs. Many people who are thoughtful and analytical have a hard time understanding the appeal of Trump's empty but crowd-roiling provocations. But think about the ...

President Barack Obama took sides on one of the most divisive debates in the history of the English language this week by declaring that the word “GIF” — an acronym for Graphics Interchange Format —is ...

Animation by Slate. Yawning cat via Giphy. Recently Adam Leibsohn, the COO of the GIF platform Giphy, made his case that GIFs are superior to words as a medium of communication. Could this possibly be ...

GIF, used as a verb, is the Oxford American Dictionaries’ word of the year. The dictionary company announced the pick with an animated GIF. The word of the year is “chosen annually as a word that has ...

“Higgs Boson” was a contender. So were “superstorm,” “Super PAC” and “YOLO” (an acronym that stands for You Only Live Once). But Katherine Martin, head of the U.S. dictionaries program at Oxford ...

Oxford American Dictionaries announced that the Word of the Year for 2012 is the verb form of GIF, short for Graphics Interchange Format and pronounced as “Jif” at its inception (but now with either a ...

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The word "GIF," used as a verb which means to create a GIF file, particularly animated ones, has been named Oxford Dictionaries US Word of the Year for 2012 on Monday, November 12 MANILA, Philippines ...