What words first appeared in print in the year you were born?

[Dilbertian]

https://www.merriam-webster.com/time-traveler/

Curious to see the era of my birth so clearly reflected in the language. Among the first words listed are acidhead, Afrocentric and babywipe. Yup, I was born in the 60s!

Even more curious are words that were recent additions to the dictionary (so must have been commonly used) yet are already obsolete:

computernik: a computer enthusiast or expert

Wow this is so cool!

A few from mine are internet, HIV, bungee jump (1986)

Booty call, wet Willy and body camera 🤔

This is cool!
Sad, but not surprising the words for 2020.

Booty call, DVD, fashionista, wet willy, blue screen of death.

I am the same age as ‘compact disc’ and ‘la-la-land’!

Laser printer, hip hop, MRSA

Well the worst ones are Anti-cellulite, Bikini wax and Deep throat but there’s interesting ones Antarctic tooth fish, biosecurity and beefalo

Bloody hell 2020 is depressing!

High five and air guitar are amongst mine. Among with killing field, yuppie, gridlock and NIMBY.

@ChessieFL then you're the same age as I am! 😄

Thanks OP that is really cool to see.

Unfortunately this is an American dictionary site. But still fascinating.

Angel Dust, Crystal Meth, IVF.
1969.

Wow this is brilliant. Mine were

Afro, druggie, cost effective, ski mask, knockoff, co-sleeping.

Yup a 60's baby!

Do you know a British one,silver? I still think it's interesting!

A selection of mine:

Hyperlink
Channel surfing
Adaptive cruise control
E-book
Joypad
Mosh pit
Unibrow :o

DS1 has mansplain, adorbs and bitcoin! Some of which haven't made it into my phone dictionary.

This is brill! I'm 1967

Aerobics, cheapo, ego trip, paramedic.

Surprised to see gastric bypass and videoconferencing. I definitely thought these would have been early eighties.

And paramedic was very much an American term back then as I still remember calling them ambulance men (or ambulance drivers!) in the seventies and eighties, certainly where I live anyway. Sadly, no mention of women in those days - at least the term paramedic covers both sexes!

Duct tape, gender dysmorphia & bralette to name but a few! 1973

Crackhead

Cardiac catheterisation, cock-up, digital computer, ground zero, microdot.
I'm amazed at some of these, I was born 1946.

Baby-wearing, beat down, caffeinate, misgender, generation X, right click, viral marketing.

A lot of mine seem to be about computers.

Sleazebag

Photoshop, biohacking, buzzkill, transphobia, arm candy, man cave, Frankenfood, polyamory, hacktivism, cytokine storm, augmented reality.

Think that was the year things started to go downhill tbh 😅

Rather appropriately I’m the same age as sertraline

BMX, date rape, gender bender, greenhouse gas, nouvelle cuisine..... loads of stuff!

Flower power, humongous... also 60s!

Bet none are as old as mine - UFO, loner, and party pooper!