I think the food media world really amped up its usage in the last few years. I never heard it in my whole life, and then all of a sudden I heard it everywhere - on all the cooking shows and in food magazines. Everyone is always looking for the latest "new thing" to promote.
Free running is different from parkour in that the latter seeks the fastest route, as referenced in the clue by "...preserving momentum." Free running involves movement not necessary for the definition, such as flips.
"Sport" would be in quotes, I suppose, because it is not inherently competitive, compared to other forms of running. Athletic, to be sure, but not necessarily bound by rules for competition.
@moofish's argument for keeping the scare quotes around "sport" don't really make sense. Of course parkour isn't necessarily governed by the rules of sport or competition, but neither is any sporting activity. Kickboxing is a sport even though you're not always competing or might have other reasons to engage in it or pursue it (recreation, self-defense, fitness). With governing bodies, regular competitions and competition rules, parkour is certainly also a sport.
I was amazed at the 'turducken' being a real thing that people make. Talk about decadence and the fall of Rome. Truly we are living through the end times, people. Break out those beanburgers while you still can.
And thank God they don't. It started out as describing straight guys who were really into fashion, but expanded to include ones who were into self-care routines like with moisturizer etc, then expanded and expanded to eventually include any guy who took care of himself in any way and just wasn't a slovenly pig. It's one of the few examples of a new term totally self-destructing via broadening and overuse. One of my other favorites of these is "hipster."
Umami that's a ridiculous word. I hereby reject any claims of validity as to the purported meaning of this "word". Any credence I might have given to the concept of there being another taste, is now utterly eradicated.
Cougar isn't strictly speaking a neologism, it's just a new meaning to an already existing word. And deepfake can also refer to videos, not only images.
"Chad" was new to me - at 60, having spent my entire life from teenagerhood to now calling a very masculine man "Butch", I kept wondering why the answer would not work. May I suggest it as an alternate?
"Chad" is absolutely an American thing but if you're not a chronically online young person, a follower of alpha bro podcasts, or an member of incel/MGTOW/"men's rights"/red pill communities, it might not be something you've encountered. You're unlikely to hear it used in traditional media, and I have never heard it used in real life.
As a lexicographer, I really can't let this pass! These are not all *words* that have come into the lexicon in the past couple of decades, but words *and meanings* eg, spam has been around since at least the second world war.
Could I also point out that this use of 'woke' is first attested, contrary to common misconception, in the late 1960s in the American civil rights movement. Please check online Oxford English Dictionary (on which I worked, so I do know what I'm talking about! Some of my best friends are etymologists 😳🙂)
I think the description should say "Can you guess these words that have entered the lexicon **or had new definitions added** in the last 20 years or so" (or something like that).
After all, some of these words have other meanings that have been around for far more than 20 years, such as "cougar" (mountain lion), "troll" (like ones that hide under bridges), and "woke" (as in 'woke up from a nap')
A deepfake is not just any convincing AI image, it's typically a video or image used to superimpose a different person's face onto someone else specifically.
Half a point for mixed eaters?
"Sport" would be in quotes, I suppose, because it is not inherently competitive, compared to other forms of running. Athletic, to be sure, but not necessarily bound by rules for competition.
I suggest removing the scare quotes from "sport".
Could I also point out that this use of 'woke' is first attested, contrary to common misconception, in the late 1960s in the American civil rights movement. Please check online Oxford English Dictionary (on which I worked, so I do know what I'm talking about! Some of my best friends are etymologists 😳🙂)
After all, some of these words have other meanings that have been around for far more than 20 years, such as "cougar" (mountain lion), "troll" (like ones that hide under bridges), and "woke" (as in 'woke up from a nap')