The Oxford Dictionary of New Words:

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 The Oxford Dictionary of New Words:
                 A popular guide to words in the news
 PREFACE Preface
    This is the first dictionary entirely devoted to new words and meanings to
    have been published by the Oxford University Press. It follows in the
    tradition of the Supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary in attempting
    to record the history of some recent additions to the language, but,
    unlike the Supplement, it is necessarily very selective in the words,
    phrases, and meanings whose stories it sets out to tell and it stands as
    an independent work, unrelated (except in the resources it draws upon) to
    the Oxford English Dictionary.
    The aim of the Oxford Dictionary of New Words is to provide an informative
    and readable guide to about two thousand high-profile words and phrases
    which have been in the news during the past decade; rather than simply
    defining these words (as dictionaries of new words have tended to do in
    the past), it also explains their derivation and the events which brought
    them to prominence, illustrated by examples of their use in journalism and
    fiction. In order to do this, it draws on the published and unpublished
    resources of the Oxford English Dictionary, the research that is routinely
    carried out in preparing new entries for that work, and the word-files and
    databases of the Oxford Dictionary Department.
    What is a new word? This, of course, is a question which can never be
    answered satisfactorily, any more than one can answer the question "How
    long is a piece of string?" It is a commonplace to point out that the
    language is a constantly changing resource, growing in some areas and
    shrinking in others from day to day. The best one can hope to do in a book
    of this kind is to take a snapshot of the words and senses which seem to
    characterize our age and which a reader in fifty or a hundred years' time
    might be unable to understand fully (even if these words were entered in
    standard dictionaries) without a more expansive explanation of their
    social, political, or cultural context. For the purposes of this
    dictionary, a new word is any word, phrase, or meaning that came into
    popular use in English or enjoyed a vogue during the eighties and early
    nineties. It is a book which therefore necessarily deals with passing
    fashions: most, although probably not all, of the words and senses defined
    here will eventually find their way into the complete history of the
    language provided by the Oxford English Dictionary, but many will not be
    entered in smaller dictionaries for some time to come, if at all.    It tends to be the case that "new" words turn out to be older than people
    expect them to be. This book is not limited to words and senses which
    entered the language for the first time during the eighties, nor even the
    seventies and eighties, because such a policy would mean excluding most of
    the words which ordinary speakers of English think of as new; instead, the
    deciding factor has been whether or not the general public was made aware
    of the word or sense during the eighties and early nineties. A few words
    included here actually entered the language as technical terms as long ago
    as the nineteenth century (for example, acid rain was first written about
    in the 1850s and the greenhouse effect was investigated in the late
    nineteenth century, although it may not have acquired this name until the
    1920s); many computing terms date from the late 1950s or early 1960s in
    technical usage. It was only (in the first case) the surge of interest in
    environmental issues and the sudden fashion for "green" concerns and (in
    the second) the boom in home and personal computing touching the lives of
    large numbers of people that brought these words into everyday vocabulary
    during the eighties.
    There is, of course, a main core of words defined here which did only
    appear for the first time in the eighties. There are even a few which
    arose in the nineties, for which there is as yet insufficient evidence to
    say whether they are likely to survive. Some new-words dictionaries in the
    past have limited themselves to words and senses which have not yet been
    entered in general dictionaries. The words treated in the Oxford
    Dictionary of New Words do not all fall into this category, for the
    reasons outlined above.  Approximately one-quarter of the main headwords
    here were included in the new words and senses added to the Oxford English
    Dictionary for its second edition in 1989; a small number of others were
    entered for the first time in the Concise Oxford Dictionary's eighth
    edition in 1990.
    The articles in this book relate to a wide range of different subject
    fields and spheres of interest, from environmentalism to rock music,
    politics to youth culture, technology to children's toys. Just as the
    subject coverage is inclusive, treating weighty and superficial topics as
    even-handedly as possible, so the coverage of different registers, or
    levels of use, of the language is intended to give equal weight to the
    formal, the informal, and examples of slang and colloquialism. This
    results in a higher proportion of informal and slang usage than would be
    found in a general dictionary, reflecting amongst other things the way in
    which awareness of register seems to be disappearing as writers
    increasingly use slang expressions in print without inverted commas or any    other indication of their register. The only registers deliberately
    excluded are the highly literary or technical in cases where the
    vocabulary concerned had not gained any real popular exposure. Finally, a
    deliberate attempt was made to represent English as a world language, with
    new words and senses from US English accounting for a significant
    proportion of the entries, along with more occasional contributions from
    Australia, Canada, and other English-speaking countries. It is hoped that
    the resulting book will prove entertaining reading for English speakers of
    all ages and from all countries.