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'Wedgie': additions to Web. Coll.

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March 28, 2005, 08:29
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'Wedgie': additions to Web. Coll.
News flash: There are 58 new entries in the new edition of Webster's New World College Dictionary, which will reach bookstores by May. There are also 20 new senses of existing words.

Among them is wedgie: noun. a prank in which the victim's undershorts are jerked upward so as to become wedged between the buttocks.

"'Wedgie' was always a part of the high school terminology that you sort of never thought about later," said Editor in Chief Michael Agnes. "It never really entered the mainstream until the '90s. It broke out of high school and, boy — if you don't know what it is, you're absolutely at a loss."

Now that you are no longer at a loss, you will be pleased to know that further additions include Al Qaeda, blog, cargo pants, irritable bowel syndrome and partial-birth abortion.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming.