sharknado (a tornado full of sharks, as featured in the Syfy Channel movie of that name) 2014: baeless: without a romantic partner (lacking a bae). 2015: manbun: man's hairstyle pulled up in a bun. Most outrageous 2008: terrorist fist jab (a phrase for a fist bump coined by Fox News newscaster E. D. Hill) 2009: death panel (a supposed committee of doctors and/or bureaucrats who would decide which patients would and wouldn't receive treatment) 2010: gate rape (pejorative term for invasive new airport pat-down procedure) 2011: assholocracy (rule by obnoxious multi-millionaires) 2012: legitimate rape (type of rape that Missouri Senate candidate Todd Akin claimed rarely results in pregnancy) 2013: underbutt (the underside of buttocks, made visible by certain shorts or underwear) 2014: second-amendment: v. to kill (someone) with a gun, used ironically by gun control supporters. 2015: fuckboy, fuckboi: derogatory term for a man who behaves objectionably or promiscuously. Most euphemistic 2008: scooping technician (a person whose job it is to pick up dog poop) 2009: hike the Appalachian trail (to go away to have sex with one's illicit lover, from a statement released by South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford to cover for visiting his Argentinean mistress) 2010: kinetic event (Pentagon term for violent attacks on troops in Afghanistan) 2011: job creator (a person responsible for economic growth and employment) 2012: self-deportation (policy of encouraging illegal immigrants to return voluntarily to their home countries) 2013: least untruthful (involving the smallest necessary lie, used by intelligence director James Clapper) 2014: EIT: abbreviation for the already euphemistic "enhanced interrogation technique." 2015: Netflix and chill: sexual come-on masked as a suggestion to watch Netflix and relax. 2018: racially charged (circumlocution for “racist”) 2019: people of means (rich people) 2020: essential [workers, labor, businesses] (people, often underpaid, who are actually treated as expendable because they are required to work and thus risk infection from coronavirus) 2021: unalive (used as a substitute for “suicide” or “kill” to avoid social media filters) 2022: special military operation (Russian designation for invasion of Ukraine) Most likely to succeed 2008: shovel-ready (description of infrastructure projects that can be started quickly, when funds become available) 2009: twenty-ten (pronunciation of the year 2010, as opposed to saying "two thousand ten" or "two thousand and ten") 2010: trend (verb for exhibiting a burst of online buzz) 2011: cloud (online space for the large-scale processing and storage of data) 2012: marriage equality (legal