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- noun finance
Debt acquired through normal financial transactions which later proves to have little or no actual value
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kewpid commented on the word toxic debt
Macquarie Dictionary's 2008 word of the year. It is two words.
February 4, 2009
bilby commented on the word toxic debt
Sorry about this long post of the short-listed words and the various categories of the MD woty 2008:
ENTERTAINMENT
machinima
mockbuster
webcom
car crash TV
verbatim theatre
BUSINESS
animateur
moral hazard
freeconomics
GFC
toxic debt
COLLOQUIAL
toad buster
bromance
fanta pants
bff
dub-a-dub-dub
COMMUNICATIONS
internet roaming
lifestreaming
QR code
sexting
textaholic
ECOLOGY
bioplastic
ecocentrism
ecolabel
ecotheology
conservation tillage
ENVIRONMENT
bioethanol
global commons
guerilla gardener
plastic soup
water footprint
FASHION
ear gauging
lace eyelashes
mouth grills
pimp cup
scene kid
EATING AND DRINKING
black tomato
guerilla dining
kiwi berry
shisha tobacco
yuzu
GENERAL INTEREST
Wii shoulder
nomophobia
twitterverse
sugging
shwopping
GENETICS
directional selection
divorce gene
hybrid embryo
saviour sibling
supergene
HEALTH
baby brain
bionic eye
brain bank
dysthymia
personal medical alarm
INTERNET
celeblog
click-and-mortar
extreme programming
linkbait
lolcat
LAW
Brendan's law
collaborative law
lawfare
patent troll
transformative justice
POLITICS
climate porn
pod person
climate wars
environmental equity
wholesale politics
SOCIAL INTEREST
bullycide
celebutard
fur child
generation Z
helicopter parenting
SPECIALIST
water splitting
mirror matter
audiation
GIS
Torino scale
SPORT
chess boxing
chicken-wing tackle
adventure running
roller trainer
tunnelling
TECHNOLOGY
uberveillance
electronic whiteboard
fire cam
PODS
terminator technology
TOURISM
connoisseur tourism
flashpacker
granny season
film tourism
wellness tourism
February 5, 2009
sionnach commented on the word toxic debt
Fascinating stuff - thanks, kewpid & bilby!
February 5, 2009
bilby commented on the word toxic debt
Over at the American Dialect Society, someone was less than impressed with the shortlist:
"Gee, this is pretty disappointing. You think of Oz you think of all that hearty slang like 'bogan', 'tin-arsed', 'bludger', ''within cooeeof' and such like, but this is all stunt words & media portmanteaux. I did have hopes for 'toad buster' but then I looked it up and discovered it just means somebody who busts toads."
- Geoff Nunberg, ADS Forum, 7 Jan 2009.
February 8, 2009
plethora commented on the word toxic debt
Yeah but.
Those words are all far older than 2008.
February 8, 2009