It's been delighting people around the world for 25 years but now formally holds a honored place in the cultural lexicon: "GIF" has been chosen as word of the year by the Oxford American Dictionary.

GIF, used as a verb, is the Oxford American Dictionaries’ word of the year. The dictionary company announced the pick with an animated GIF. The word of the year is “chosen annually as a word ...

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Oxford American Dictionaries chose the verb form of GIF as 2012’s Word of the Year, and we celebrate this news with 30 jubilant GIFs.

GIF beat out words like YOLO, second-screening, and superstorm for this year's crown. In the Oxford English Dictionary, GIF is an acronym for Graphics Interchange Format and is defined as "a ...

"GIF," as in the file type, has been chosen as Oxford Dictionary's American word of 2012. The runner up? "YOLO," which is short for "You only live once." "The GIF, a compressed file format for ...

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It’s official: GIF has been named the Oxford American Dictionary’s word of the year. The word–and the computer science behind it–has been around since the 1980s, but the GIF… ...

Internet culture gets its proper due in journalism today, as "GIF" has beat out "YOLO" as the Oxford American Dictionary's word of the year. “GIF celebrated a lexical milestone in 2012, gaining ...

It's been delighting people around the world for 25 years but now formally holds a honored place in the cultural lexicon: "GIF" has been chosen as word of the year by the Oxford American Dictionary.

In a move sure to delight BuzzFeed fans, the Oxford American Dictionary has announced that 2012's word of the year is "GIF." GIFs, a longstanding part of internet meme culture, are simple, jerkily ...