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Author Message   Debby Citizen Username: Debby Post Number: 1731 Registered: 5-2001 Posted on Tuesday, March 15, 2005 - 9:46 am:        'Wedgie' Added to Webster's Dictionary Mon Mar 14, 5:42 PM ET Top Stories - AP CLEVELAND - Wedgie, a teenager's locker-room nightmare, has made it into the dictionary. Webster's New World College Dictionary based in Cleveland said wedgie was among its new additions to its latest edition. The new edition will carry this listing: wedgie: noun. a prank in which the victim's undershorts are jerked upward so as to become wedged between the buttocks. The dictionary also carries the tradition wedgie definition of a type of shoe. "`Wedgie' was always a part of the high school terminology that you sort of never thought about later," said Editor in Chief Michael Agnes. "It never really entered the mainstream until the '90s. It broke out of high school and, boy — if you don't know what it is, you're absolutely at a loss." The new edition will reach bookstores by May and has 58 new entries, plus another 20 new senses of existing words (such as wedgie). The additions include Al Qaeda, blog, cargo pants, irritable bowel syndrome and partial-birth abortion. ___ Information from: Akron Beacon Journal, http://www.ohio.com   Tom Reingold Supporter Username: Noglider Post Number: 5858 Registered: 1-2003 Posted on Tuesday, March 15, 2005 - 11:12 am:        Why does it seem that this is more uncomfortable for males than for females? We had all sorts of wedgies when I was in summer camp. E.g. there was a hook wedgie, where the victim was hung by the elastic of his underpants, leaving him dangling helplessly. Talk about torture! Kids are so cruel.   Mark Fuhrman Citizen Username: Mfpark Post Number: 1419 Registered: 9-2001 Posted on Tuesday, March 15, 2005 - 1:06 pm:        The additions include Al Qaeda,... irritable bowel syndrome and partial-birth abortion. Call me crazy, but it seems appropriate that these three terms enter the dictionary pantheon together.   Ukealalio Citizen Username: Ukealalio Post Number: 1880 Registered: 6-2003 Posted on Tuesday, March 15, 2005 - 2:06 pm:        If they add DUMBYA it will prove the worlds perfect.