New words for the term

Every week, the Macmillan dictionary team search the media to find out the newest and most interesting words being used in the English language, and you can find their ‘Word of the Week’ on the www.macmillandictionary.com website. Thanks to lexicographer Kerry Maxwell and her compilation book Macmillan Words of the Year, we’ll be featuring a couple of these words each term to keep your vocabulary up to date. We will also include examples taken from a variety of print and electronic sources, illustrating how the words are used.

The words we have chosen for this term are:

Movieoke (n countable):

Here is the perfect past time for the frustrated actor! If you’ve always wanted a chance to act out scenes from your favourite movie, then cinema’s answer to the karaoke should make your dreams come true! Stand in front of the movieoke screen, and you too could battle it out with Darth Vader in Star Wars or bring the hills alive with The Sound of Music! The idea originated in a small club in Manhattan’s East Village.

Shopgrifting (n countable): 

It’s a tempting idea: buy the shirt one day, wear it to the party, carefully repackage it the next day, take it back to the shop, get your money back. Result: you wore something new but you didn’t spend any money! If you’ve thought of doing this, or maybe you’ve even done it, then remember this is shopgrifting, which sounds frighteningly similar to something which is totally illegal: shoplifting.