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by mkr-hn 1495 days ago
This is the second Usenet-borne word I've seen enter the dictionary recently. I forget what the other one was, though I remember it had to do with graffiti and was popularized by rather than created on Usenet. I think we're going to see this more and more over the next decade or three as slow-burning words from the early internet stumble into memes and discourse around major events.
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‘Unfriend’ is another one.

> (…) though I remember it had to do with graffiti and was popularized by rather than created on Usenet

That one’s probably king as a verb (“kinging New York”).

I don't think so. This one had to do with a memorial for someone who was murdered.
I'm doing my part! I use "plonk" once or twice a day, which is probably more than the average person.