"Crack ho" is favored by Dictionary afficianados

[KurtNYC]

Which is your favorite new entry in the online edition of the Oxford English Dictionary?

thugged out 7%
hoochie 19%
crack ho 49%
fanfic 2%
po' boy 2%
beat down 6%
Joe Schmo 10%
hairy eyeball 5%

Total Votes : 496

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[redqueen]

1. It's definitely my favorite out of that list.

[trotsky]

2. OK, I've heard of all of them except "hairy eyeball".

Can someone please enlighten this tragically non-hip suburban dad?

[redqueen]

3. I think it's like the stinkeye.

i.e. a dirty (or, on edit, susupicious) look

Not positive, though.

[amazona]

5. hairy eyeball is a skeptical eye to something

You give someone or something the hairy eyeball if you have doubts about it. Example: "My pet parrot gave his new bell the hairy eyeball at first, but now he's playing with it just fine."

It is not particularly hip. It is commonly used among nerds, at least in these parts.

[trotsky]

6. Aha, thanks!

Don't know how I've avoided it to this point. I'm in the upper Midwest, maybe that's a factor?

[amazona]

4. how can "hairy eyeball" be a new entry?

We've been using that one since at least the early 1980s if not earlier.

[redqueen]

7. Because they only just now decided to put it in the dictionary?

I guess we coulda looked it up, seeing as how it's in the dictionary now. :)