1987 Words

The Oxford English Dictionary has 128 words with first citations from 1987. In that year, nominees to high government positions might be Borked or given a figurative bitch slap; scientists discussed branes, cryovolcanism, and patient zero; Gorbymania threw political junkies into eppies; and Canada created a new kind of loonie.

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