Words of the Year -
1990: bushlips - insincere political rhetoric.
1991: mother of all - greatest.
1992: not! - expression of disagreement.
1993: information superhighway - the national and international network of computers.
1994: cyber - pertaining to computers and electronic communication.morph - to change form.
1995: web - world-wide webnewt - Newt, meaning to make aggressive changes as a newcomer.
1996: Mom - as in soccer mom.
1997: millennium bug
1998: e-
1999: Y2K
2000: chad
2001: 9-11
2002: weapons of mass destruction
2003: metrosexual - a fashion-conscious heterosexual male, or, as coiner Mark Simpson put it, a man who "has clearly taken himself as his own love object".