1989 Words

The Oxford English Dictionary has 127 words with first citations from 1989. In that year, people were afraid of youths on a wilding giving them a beat-down; lattes and cosmos were the drinks of choice; C-listers were hawking abdominizers on late-night television; boomerang babies were coming back; Billary were the ultimate Arkansas power couple; and LOL began appearing in Cyberia.

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