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The Oxford English Dictionary has 137 words with first citations from 1988. In that year, you could microchip someone with a product made by a mid-cap, fabless semiconductor company; pimped-out, gangsta wiggers dropped the F-bomb; acid jazz and techno were on the music charts; Hamas had many people afraid of rising Islamofascism; and one could use one’s gaydar to find out if that himbo was a potential partner.