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Trendy term
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buzzword
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also buzz word , 1946, from buzz (n.) + word (n.). Noted as Harvard student slang for the key words in a lecture or reading. Perhaps from the use of buzz in the popular counting game.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ 'Going snap' on a decision was the latest buzzword in our office. ▪ Customer-friendliness was the buzzword in British business circles. ▪ Multimedia has been a buzzword in the computer industry for years. ▪ The big Internet ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A buzzword is a word or phrase that becomes very popular for a period of time. Buzzwords often derive from technical terms yet often have much of the original technical meaning removed, being simply used to impress others, although such "buzzwords" may ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. stock phrases that have become nonsense through endless repetition [syn: cant ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context pejorative English) A word drawn from or imitative of technical jargon, and often rendered meaningless and fashionable through abuse by non-technical persons in a seeming show of familiarity with the subject.
Usage examples of buzzword.
HDLs were the trendy blood component of the 1980s, something called apolipoproteins will surely become the blood buzzword of the nineties.
He was a good speaker, jumping on all the trendy buzzwords to elicit the right reaction.
He had done his homework well, knew the proper jargon and buzzwords and would probably be able to fool most people--but not her.
When talking to Bishop Dugan in the Diocese office, he had used all the correct buzzwords of the time to express this unease: anomie, urban malaise, an increasing lack of empathy, a sense of disconnection from the life of the spirit.
Nor will any of the buzzwords that have helped him in previous moments of crisis be of any help to him here.
Always leaving the same signatureGaiathe buzzword of yuppie ecology, the science of global issues, global weather, the global village.
As long as he didn't use any easily predicted buzzwords, his messages should be secure, Mohammed judged.
Conrad even knew the buzzwords to explain it: a zettahertz laser—that’s a trillion gigahertz, you know—operating at four watts and refracted through a pair of Fresnel condensates to form an isotropic beam exactly thirty meters wide, terminating at the collapsium barrier of the forward ertial shield.
I larded my account of my hopes for the future with casual references to owner-friendly buzzwords like 'point-of-sale', 'food cost percent', 'labor-intensive' and 'more bang for the buck', careful to slowly, almost accidentally reveal that I was a serious, experienced chef, a reasonable man-good-tempered, reliable-the sort of guy a fifty-five-year-old Scottish steakhouse owner could talk to, spend time with-a realist, a journeyman professional-without airs, illusion or pretense.
Whenever he logged on at his Mospheira office port he'd inevitably acquire, through the filter that censored and frequently made hash of what it let him have, a mishmash of messages, some official, some scholarly inquiries, some the advisories of the hard-worked staff that supported the paidhi's office, from the devoted crew that sifted the outpourings of the phone-ins of every ilk, to the more reliable information that came to him down official channels, and to the Mospheira news summaries, neatly computer-censored for buzzwords and restricted concepts the paidhi couldn't take with him across the strait.