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trend-dictionary
from lifestyle bonmots & trend slang
look also: future-dictionary and trend-decades and future-trend-literature

if you want to buy the trend books: here

every day a new word is IN here at us,
another OUT

great trend subejcts through the year:
religios dates (X-max and easter) and specials (thanksgiving, halloween,...), summer holidays (booking spring-time), body-sex (diet & fitness in spring), flirt & dates (spring-time)

trend-barometer: - flop/old to top +++++

If you wanna have more trend words, trendy future definitions, buy our trend -dictionary: www.Future-Institute.com.


also after subjects:
- lifestyle: fashion, beauty, party, food & beverage, events, edu, city guide...
- technology: high-tech innovations, games
- wellness: work-life-balance, health, new medicine, holo OP's, beauty lifting, anti-aging
- youth culture

all and more to find in our trend-dictionary (in all languages): here



hot spots, spinning, pitch & pitchen...


sun & sin city, babylon, demon (dämon),

A

adAge

AFTER
after-shock / aftershock, after-sex / aftersex, after-party / afterparty, after-work / afterwork- in a 24 hour never sleeping world a nessary celebration ceremony to shut down the mind from work like a computer: "stop-to-feel-and-for wellness"

ager: best-, kid, teen-, golden-, first, late-, last-, ... life age generations of the scoiety tomorrow

aging: age well-fit consumption (services as products)

alcopops

aldi-shoppers: manifestation for endless europe discounting and answer to asia

alias

+++ all-age: consumer and business products for all generations, making no differences in age, gender / sexes, ...and that the consumers don't ask for, silver shoppers using and doing fun sports


+++++ "all-in-one": "not all-you-can-eat", but a promise for integrated products and software, all included, all get together; see also "covergence"look also: -> "I"

+++++ "allstars": all stars, all-stars, allrounder
all to sex



alltime: ready-steady-ever -go of life, mobilty,...

almanach

aloha


+ ambient marketing

amazon's: amazon-is/es

american style
american dream team
american way of life

++amexico

anglosphere

anime

anti-matrix, anti-christ / antichrist, antiworld, antiglobalisation...
anti-spam(mer)

+++ anti-aging: well popular

aqua: the 3. element, water; evergreen wellness mean
aquos

+++ art-alarm: art-year in any case is sexy and in



asian culture
japanese: aikidô ( jûdô, carate, okinawa-kobudô, kendô) , bonsai, bonseki, caraoke, ikebana, kanji (font painting art style), manga, samurei, sushi (sashimi, tempura,...), tea ceremony,...

asiating: like & live in asean way of life: from -> ikebena(ing) for japanish art flower till -> bonsai(ing) as japanish art tree

atlantis (atlan)


--- avatare

+++ awarding: awards are very popular, also -> contests

OUT: ... :

B

-- babelisation

+-+ b-boy: bad boy <-> boo's: good boys [-> street style]



baggy-pants

banzai

+++ barbie and blaine

barbie generation

+ basicing: basics, basica, back to the roots, ground zero

baywatch: bay beach water watching...

beat'n


++ best agers: the seniors in future - see also silver agers, golden oldies ('goldies'), grey consumers, silver agers,... -> "ager"

++++ big brothering: BB-house



big trends: see macro trends and changes


bingo: a hit private or busines like in a game

+++++ bio

+ bio age: -> "50plus" or "50+": e.g. -> "anti-aging"

bitch: witch of a...

black & white book

blade & blooding


bladers: -> boarders ->”Blade”;

+++ bleaching: whiten-up the dents to smile like stars

blockbuster
+ blockbustering: blockbusters - best-of films, popstars,...



+ blogs & blogger: (web) blogging, weblog, web blogger, wacth log(ger)- to

+++ blogging: corporate communication till political blogging for more authentic personal-touch and blog(ad)vertising: make trends by ; -> vlog, -> weblog

b(l)ond



blue chips & notes, blue hall, blue pictures,...

blue blackberry


+++ bluejackQ

+ blue-chips

+++ blueprint

bluescreen

body work

bollywood

bondage

bonseki -> wellness; -> work-life-balance; -> bonsai, caraoke, ikebana, kanji, tea ceremony,...


boo's: good boys <-> b-boy: bad boy

bookcrossing

booster

borgers

+ botax


brain power: -> brain food like nuts,...)

brain drain: -> best heads

brainwashing


break(ing) point
break dance

break countries: BRIC: brazil, russia, india, china ...supermarkt of the future


++ buddy / buddies


burnen: burn-out (in job) -> burn'n

burning-man

Bus(h)keties -


buster

buzzing: -> buzz marketing

OUT: bunnies, ...

C

++++ C : popular for customized, concepted, created, constructed products and software

cannonball-runs: similar with forbidden street races

caraoke

care: service, seniors, health, well...

case-modding

castings

cave:

cube

+ cc (copy cat)

celebrity: -> VIP's

+ cell: -> fuel cell

++ changes: are macro trends

chart(s) & charting

cheat & cheating

chick'n

chillen: chill out

chiller..

chimaera (chimäre)

+++ chippies: chinese yuppies and hippies

+ chinoise

chuzpe or chuzpà

cinemascope

city-guide

clubbing

clocky:

code of conduct: ...of contact - way of to give guidlines like knigge(ethic rules to act fair with others, modern version of the 12 requirements

computainment:

computing: -> ubiquitous computing; -> wearable computing


+++++ CON's

cool: cool'n

copy & copying

+++ chuzpe

+ cloning

--- coconning


CON's: con, -> con-day

conspiracy theories

+++++ contests

--- convergence


conveniance: -> convenience



cool

corporate governance: -> open-door policy

correctness: -> private public, -> neoc(r)on's (neo -> "Knigge"

cowboy


crack, cracks, cracking

+++++ cross: -> cross living, -> cross-board'n, -> cross -golf'n

cross dresser: -> transsexuality

++ cruisen: cruising & crossing around

++ crush'n: crushen, crushing

+ cuddle-parties
+++ cuddly toys

--- cyber: -space, -world,...

OUT: ...

D

+++++ dating: speed

DAY: daying


decades: the trend decades (10 year circles) of 20th, 30th, 40th, 50th, 60th, 70th. 80th, 90th, 00th,...twenties, thirties, fiftties, sixties,seventies,eighties,ninethies, zeros,...

dejeunieren

+++ designed (-by)

- de-trend: de-commercialisation, de-government, de-formation, de-motivation, de-stabilization, de-regulation,...

++ dieting: dieating - dyating -> Robert Atkins diaet: o -> "anti-fat movement"

dipp'n: flip & dip

++++ djane: or DeeJane -> female DJs (deejay, disc jockeys)

discovery

dolce vita

DOMe:-> domination

DomRep

doom

dot-com: dot.com, dot-commers, dot eu,...

drag-queen ->

- driving forces

dschihad


dunking: ->

OUT: ...


E

+ E: popular for electronic: e.g. e-world, e-governement, e-commcere, e-schools...e-people (avatars)


edutainment ->

+ ego ->

+++++ "easy-to-use"->


enigma

+ ethnos:

OUT: ...

F

facework: ->

fash'n: fashion and fashioning

fat cat's: ->

++++ fee-or-free:->

feng-shui: for clothes, rooms, buildings till whole cities; "all round - no corner (angularly)"; to let energy through without blocking; KAN (north: water), LI (south: fire), TUI (q/west: metall), CHEN (east: wood),... SUN (southeast), CHIEN (northwest), KEN (northeast), KUN (southwest)

fetishism: new old spirituals - soft religions


fitness'n


+ flagship stores

++ flashing: flash mobs -> flashen, fash'n

+ 50plus: 50+ - the seniors in future - see also best agers, silver agers, generation 100, golden oldies ('goldies'), grey consumers, silver agers,...

+ free-location:

* functional food

+++++ futuring: future style, futuristic ->

OUT: ...


G

- gadget

+++ gaming: total, online ->

+ gendering: uni-sex look ->

+ generation-XYZ, 100: gen-X, -Y, -Z, people getting elder and 10 -> 30% the next decade over a hundert years old

generation.exe,
generation.doc
generation.dotcom

+ generation-over: over-sixties, over-fifties,...-> best-ager, silver-ager, goldies,...

generica

+++ reGeneration: is more re-/next-generation -> the "endless 30"

ghettoblaster

GIG: gigs

girly look: girlies

girly men: ->

glamour girls & boys

+ globetrotter


+++++ golden eye

+ golden girls

golden week: ->

++++ (G)OLdies: golden oldies - the seniors in future - see also best agers, 50+, silver agers, grey consumers, silver agers,...

+++ "Goldfinger-accounts"->

grande: la grande nation (France,...), "grande boucle": la Tour de France

greenscreen: green screening
->
groops & loops: -> boarden & surfen -> trickings and loopings

Guinness Book of Records

OUT: grunge,...

H

hall of fame (like -> walk of fame): ->

halloween: see -> "Thanksgiving"

++ hdtv: high-definition television


hedge: fond: -> assets, -> blue, red, green, grey chips

+ HSDPA: highspeed downlink packet-access->

++ healthery:

- heritage: ->

hi-Lo: high-low communities, consumers,...


hip(hop)
hippies

+ hijacking: ->

hopp'n:-> hopping & happing(s)

Hollywood: ->

hollywood games: -> Tomb Raider f.e.

+ homesitting: ->

++ homing: like cocconing -> home-delivery ->

honey moon: like sweetheart, darling

hot spots: ->

XXXXXXXX


house style: dependant art & music time-lifestyle

+++ humidor's

+ hydra: subject ancient mythology - many lives like a cat (9 lives), trying to kill all the heads hydra let them grow again; so it is a nice way of marketing like guerilla trend: going and coming again, when no one believes it(hat)

+ hydro: -gen: "water power" [tech] part of fuel cell energy like oxigen

+++ hyper: space, technology, world [tech]


hypes: high points of trends


OUT: ...ex & old: hell, hippies,...


I
+ I: stands for interactive, intelligent, informative(l)y/informated, integrated, indeopendant; i-sensitive/i-motion products and technology


+++ I,Robot: I, human - the try to live with robots as a long way of misunderstandings [Steven Spielberg]

ice letter: got a blue letter that there is no job today, but perhaps tomorrow and have to wait for...

ikebana (asian-japanese culture): flower setting symbol style art for well-feeling design and part of meditation; ikeru = living and hana = flower(s);-> Hanami [o-hanami] means"flower / cherry blossom (bloom / Blüte) watching"

+++++ instant technology: always ready: computers like automobiels/cars quickly , fast and easy to start


iTunes: a beginning for commercial music downloads and a oversized word in future for tu(r)ne-on mobile music (like Tempo for handkerchief,...)

iTV: interactive television, digital TV; personal-use tele

J

--- jackass: people doing ugly things (eating bad stuff...), making dangerous silly 'mad' stunts -not for copy!


+++++ jetset: jet setting; jetsetter till globetrotter - not necassry but one of the things in world
jet-lag: jetlag

OUT: ...


K

Kabala more than -> Feng-Shui is used and promy-trendstyle to prevent agianst negative/evil energy

kamasutra

+++ karaoke: the pendant to -> movaoke; music karo also as movie cari: coping blockbuster love scenes f.e. - for enjoying others; very popuklar in Asia

kicking
kick off: start breaker of events & happenings

kimono (retro): traditional asian clothes with 9,84 feet (3 métres) long belt called -> "OBI"

OUT: ...


L

LAN-parties

latinos:

liferies:

+++ liming: the best form of -> wellness, -> selfness, -> grooming, -> homing, relaxing, like in holidays doing nothing and enjoy it

little china: all over the world chippies gorunding communites (San Francisco, Hamburg,...) settling and selling industries, politicains,...

lolita-effect: be & behavior of dolly sexy babies


loops & groops: movements from boarden & surfen - loopings and trickings

"lost-city" (the last paradies on earth or jurassic parc) <-> sin & sun-city: in Florida, Las Vegas, South-Africa (near Johannesbourg), Hongkong (Macao-a)

loveparade: starting in Berlin and now a festival, culture event and party in all big cities and never-sleeping metropoles worldwide as a symbol for peace, freedom, liberty, equality,... for all human beings ... in the new-age tradition of the -> flower power generation of -> hippies in the seventies (70th decade)


luna: lunamoon, lunetcis, lunaris,...


OUT: ...


M

M: popular for mobile(s)ity: e.g. m-class, m-commcere by handy or laptop/notebook/pad

machos & chicas

macro trends: super big trends like globalisation, world politics, melting poles, disappearing ozone layer, sun collapses, magnet storms and pol changing...

macro shift: global local big like supertrends, but more the risk causes then the consequences to the society: f.e. nature, climate, terrorism, war, lack of water,...


+++++ manga: long-term very good comic style

+++ mass customization: produced individuel on-demand

+++ mass clusivity: mass exclusivity -

+ masters: master & commander, -mastering, MBA (master of business administration: is very popular worldwide as education level)

+++ material arts: popular fight (film) style, best made in asia to find excellent in "Tiger & Dragons" and "Matrix I, II, III" -> kick boxing, -> high kicking

material girl (Madonna): very materiell

mayday: culture events & project round the first may every year as the day for "work" and "working"- remembering the long tradition and history of hard production to reach the wealth of today and all social problems having no job, layoffs, unemployment,.. a festival and holiday popular in europe and also worldwide

-- mediokraty: the ruling of the 4. power is the media & t.i.m.e.s industries


+++++ mega: -city, megapolis...

megaresort: big hotels, parcs, parties,...

megatrends: the high royal class of trends going from -> mini (smart) trends / -> micro trends over -> big / lifestyle trends till -> macro trends or -> century trends, -> evolution trends and -> space trends; megatrends running for decades and being effective more than 10 years, after 20-30 the next megatrend joins or replaces



+++++ me-inc (my incooperation): [Ich-Ag] - make, create, found your own comany; selfness is very trendy in future all-times


+ messages: from Messias Jesus till daily manager business (ad, media, sales,...): sms, mms, xms, vms (video)

++++ metro-lifestyle: lving in megacities like metropolis

++ metrosex-man(na): metru-urban sexuality behavior of woMen between feeling like femini and masculin

MHP multimediahomeplatform: mhp all-inchlusive high-fidelity 3D-surround hiTech entertainment; media center & player between pc and tv for iTV

millepede: supersmini store mem(ory) system like flash-USB

mini trends: limited by time for only some hours or days running and only at special scene places

micro trends: lokal global city and scene trends: very located

mobility

MOD: multi(player) online dungeons
MOG: mmog (massive multiplayer online games): mo's & moggers playing LAN-parties worldwide millions together one till more games at-once a short and longer time to develop characters (very expensive)


mood management: e.g. a.i.-software in future-houses react, that the inhabitants feel well


++++ movaoke: movie karaoke - the pendant to -> karaoke; music karo also as movie cari: coping blockbuster love scenes f.e. - for enjoying others; very popuklar in Asia: see -> karaoke

movies: film trailers (before) & spoilers (beside) accompanying real and internet cinema


myLove (virus)

OUT: ...


N

nannies: -> super nannies

nano-spere: tech(nolopgy)

nap-ospere: e-sleeping in special transparate tanks (cabs with fluid like sole, ...)

NEO
neolib's: neo libereral
neocon's: neo conservative

new life: chamge yourself concepts (TV-shows,...)
new work

nexus: next new generation in the meaning of the great followers & changers bring hope to us on earth or from space

nigger: not always political & social-cultural correctness bonmot word for men, but also no t only for black people and no taboo today: also -> bitch (for women)


nikkeing: nikkei nipon index japan and the art of way to make asean business


nipplegate: a bodytalk way to make quotes: showing the 'tit(ie)s' - boobs like Janet Jackson; the reaction: no real tv any more, all controlled by software and zensors 2 seconds before

nippon
nippies: nippes

ngo: non governmental organisation

NLPD

--- nomads: nomaden

normalos

OUT: ...


O

obi: a 9,84 feet (3 métres) long belt as part of a kimono (traditional asian clothes)
obi wan kenobi

odyse(e)us

off: offshore, offline,...slowness, outdoor till outland trends


OPEN mind, open door policy, open range, open source, open systems, open world,...an evergreen in trend words

++++ open source: free source codes & software like Linux on one side for self-developing and usable software in internet (price on-demand): pay-what-you-use/need-not more (cheaper & no nedd to buy all),...-> " with great future

orient'n expressing

ostagie: (n)ostalgie till no-ostalgie - east retro wave(s), the life in good old times,...

overkill


+++ over-sixties and over-fifties:(fiftysomething till sixtysomething) best-ager and bayboomer generation ruling the consumption of tomorrow


overtime machismo: the thirtysomething till fourtysomething have no fun to work longer any more - over the time -


oxygen (1. element, air)

OUT: ...



P

pandora's can: all trends inside
pandemy: worldwide virus epidemy (epidemic disease): sarsS, ebola, bird flu, influeneza... growing: first from pet to human, then human-human direct

para:-world, -olympics, -science: mostly in future a word in the time science
paradis'n


party'n: happening(s) & hopping

patchwork family: ugly definition from fashion with a good idea behind to say, that new families form themselve from women and men with different kids of other partners; living togehter because of material, spiritual, economic, sexual reseasons like free communities

PDA: personal digital assistant
PMR: personal media recorder
PVR: personal video recorder

+- phishing: is password-fishing and means the illegal way of stealing account bank dates by asking per email f.e. to complete the own adresses [internet]

phoenix

pin-up boy & pin-up girl

pishing: fish online accounts data

pitch'n, pitcher: fight for ad's

plastination: make humans & nature exist like mummies forever

players: big/run – global/cosmo – net/new – local/city


playboy & playgirl


++++ pod casting: (free till pay) podcasts podcasters (ipod-broadcastings) : radio on-demand, tinternet broadcasting like web-blogging new online fields to publish -make your own radio show (multimedia sound mp3 format files/tracks and customers can choose news from differnet pod-sites,...hear what you are interested in and have time for,...a RSS-Newsfeed is listing all radio offers (news, poems, stories, books,...) to hear mobil or at home )PC, TV, radio player,...)

political correctness: not been radical; worldwide in USA, EU, ASIA,...being between -> neolib's (neo libereral) and -> neocon's (neo conservative)

pope-squatting

pop(ping)
pop-up windows: form of online advertising: mostly people don't like it
pop-up shops: open little till large shops only for a time: 50% some annouced so - 50% some not (dependant to success); from some days till 1 year


power woMen: see woMen


ppp: public private partnership

prez: president

prog(gi)s: scan & store web-radion, iTV...

public enemy No. 1



push-up bra: -> wonderbra

push-to watch: TV on UTMS-smartphone-handies
push-to talk: walkie-talkie,...

Q

OUT: ...


R

rat pack: all 5 famous members of an art & music groups; e.g. boy/girl groups,...-> six pack


re: popular for -generation, -generated
regeneration is more re-/next-generation than regeneration; want to be forever young and do so in behavior and fashion style - the "endless 30"


(p)resident: master dj chief of a scene (style, locasion, disco,...)

revitals(izer)
revivals
renewables: ReNew-ables
relaunches
remakes
retro-retro


retro: again and agein the evergreens of good old times; new products of old ideas or ole products with new ideas

rich kids: less 'enfants terrible", teens, twens...youth; but this getting smaller target group is well-cared and supplied in the way of "less-kids with more parents", sometimes in -> patchwork families with more fathers and mothers

rich kids: human: Qrio,...; animal: Aibi, Cathy,...[tech]

roBots: HomoRoBots, robosapiens,...

rotarier & lions: people in different business clubs doing good social till cultural help by the slogan: "when you had luck - give it back where needed in the society"

+-+- rumo(u)rs: a kind version of still and whispered trends; to find in every city and the -> "who-is-who" and -> conspiracy theories

running along

running mate: the second runner (supporter/helper,..) .and then vize president

OUT: raver,...

S


samurei

screening: a trend instrument

selfmade people

seniority: eldern becoming population of the future(15-20 years): grey consumers, bestAgers, silverSurfers, Goldies,...

+++++(+) societyable: to be right listed in society, have the right fashion, style, partner...all to be accepted by the society: -> the old tradiotional and new money aristocracy obligates

+++++ self-ness: is a megatrend for persons as our environment: autuomatic households, robotic producing,...

sentinel

sexeries:

sexification: boom & celebration of erotic lifestyle as cult like in Las Vegas, Paris Moulin Rouge, Hamburg Reeperbahn...

shocking!: 1. neo-green, orange, yellow as spring colors; 2. horror scary movies; 3. state minutes (protokol)

shopaholic: loves to shop without-end till credtitcard stops...runs hot -> workaholic

silver agers: - the seniors in future - see also best agers, 50+, golden oldies, grey consumers, ...

SIM: sim city, sim life, sim sex - very popular game with 2 trends: the people like a simulation of life to understand their own one (by doing also something forbidden by morality, ethic,...) or jump & switch in the role of other persons (normal habitants till showman, presidents, managers,...) to feel, love & work in an other way,...


sin & sun-city: in Florida, Las Vegas, South-Africa (near Johannesbourg), Hongkong (Macao-a) <-> "lost-city" (the last paradies on earth or jurassic parc)

six-pack

++ slam poets: free style poetry
slam dunk: submerge / dive in poems

slim: thin smart design f.e. handies / smart phones, notebooks / web pads

+++++ smart(Ies): small/little, fast, comfortable in the way to use intelligent -interactive - i-sensitivesible/i-motion

smoo (-th like super-smart, -c like cuddle) fon, gadgets, talker,...

++++ soft-air weapons: pistols, guns,... with plastic shootings / bowlers

- soho: living like artists and sometimes artistic

softball
+++ softair guns & pistols: legal worldwide for enetrtainment in-/outdoor games and protection

solar: tech(nolopgy)

spacers

spam

spoiler: movie trailer & spoiler

spyware: spy-ware

stalker: walking through zones and sometimes dimensions or time channels
-> stalking: follow and nerving persons (1.vips, promis...)


star wars: R2-D2, C-P3O, Wookie(s),...

stealth mode: acting and feeling absolute invisible & secure - mostly only a wish

+++++ street style: "your be served" (you've loosed), do and win (dance or gun/fight) battles, boo's (nice girls & boys), b-boy

+-++ strech-limou: long luxery automobile/car


strings: trendy because of double moral: bikini fashion hip style with less is more for bath(ing) suits and theory of the universe, also energy is more than material and all is made of 'waves' ... really funny-bunny

strip: of Las Vegas, Macaco,...

stupid white men (Michael Moore)
stupid-money: coming from investors (persons, companies till countires), who've no experience & knowledge, but investing good (e.g. Germany: many cinema fonds for H(B)ollywood productions, but itself making worse films with bad actors)

sudoku: popular asian creativ game

sumo: ring struggle fight but really not as catch'n, but both have fat muscle woMen as athlets


sun (2. element, light, fire)

+++++ super: all is super-sized - man, gadgets, cars, models,...

super mario
super nannies

super trends: like macro trends, but very popular 'pop' trends in lifestyle, culture, fashion,...

sushi

sweep'n

s.w.a.t.: special weapon (workgroup) ant terror force

swinger

swot: trend analyzing of chances against / contra risks (danger, gaps,...); the third way is security between both


stylish'n: from the 70th, seventies

OUT: ...

T

table vivante: classic contra new-mixed conventions, customs and behaviors in comparison: asiatic, eastern, european, american

tamagotchi connexion: nice little pets crying till roaring also as manga figurs to feed, maintain, guard,...that they grown and not get ill ...and silly (who?)

technolution: the megatrends by high-tech (bio, nano,...) and evolution processes of technologies to human high-touch

terra (4. element, ground)
terracotta (army, house-life,...)

thanksgiving: harvest festival: fruits from the field and special pumkin (-nut) -> "Halloween" till "Charlie Brown"

thriller & thrilling: the scary side of life, and the bright one: -> chiller; the top's: roller coaster in entertainment parc and bloody vampires (dracula till alien) in movies

tiffany: a brand name sounding well-rich(ness)

timing, time (5. element, space)

toastmasters & 'toastmakers': people (in clubs) training to hold (bringing a toast) speeches in a professional way for honourable persons & sujects

++ tooth clips: the best accessoires at parties, in all colours and with pictures of animals (1. tiger & dragon, 2. spiderman,...) and stars (1. Robbie Williams, 2. Michael Jackson,...)

touch'e: touché, soft touch down, not cracked

trash trends: a way of innovation or the end of creativity - near together sometimes

trendology: -> futurology


trend tank and think tank

trenchless technology: installing, repairing and renewing underground utilities

tribes

--- tribalisation: people searching and looking for good-old retro-familing and new communities to feel well in th cold times of high-tech -> neo tribes

trinity

tripolis

trojaner: virus form and historical also for trendscouts to infiltrate in scenes and (open as forbidden) locasions or closed communities


OUT: tanga, tango

U


ubiquitous computing; -> computing


+++- utms: new broadband handy smartphone tech for videos, TV, movies, short shots, 'running pictures,...

+ Union Jack (engl flag): pop popular

URBI ET ORBI ist global

UAV: unmanned aerial vehicles - with vodeo-cams,...


OUT: ...

V

van: good as action or mystic name and popular crime/crimnal transportation system

veiling's: à la Christo & Jean-Claude): art of packing great and small 3D-objects

videophony

vintage: retro life style and fashion

virtuos & virtuell

virus: a in reality as in the internet world - beside trojaner, worms, nakes, blasters...- MyLove, MyDoom, Netsky, Bagle, Sasser, …“

vitro scan: make your own face till body 3D as an plastic or steel model out of a special printer unlimited forever as an statue and gift for friends, family, business parents, the competition, and very trendy: put it on your desk in office, so all visitor see you coming in (also a horro for thiefs at night and a shock for your enemies...)

+++ vlog: video (b)logging & video(buster)blogger - make video diaries; -> wlog / webblogging

voodoo

OUT: ...


W

walk of fame (like -> hall of fame): popular to present mostly living stars (movie, musicans,...) forether as an memorial act celebrate far from cemetery feelings - not politicans and the first in Hollywood, but today also in other megacities

walkie-talkie: renaissance of a retro gadget in times of unsecure mobile telefoning (see bluejack; blue(tooth)-spam,...) and cheaper in local-areas and city-distances and able to cross with wlan's; new revical as push-to-talk on smart-hanies, pads,...

warchalking: -> wardriving

water: -gate, -world...

wearable's
wearable computing -> computing

++ web-fon: internet telefony - voice over IP: the new smart phones also as home-located phones with less costs


wlog

++++ webblogger: web bl(ö)ogging -online diaries till e-zines as full reporter stories, 90% private, 10% business - new jobs by internet for journalists worldwide - self-uthors & biographs; -> vlog, -> web(b)log / wlog

+++++ - well-ness: very popular, but misused in so many cases



whistleblowing (to give alert)

white & blackbook

white bread: new "petty bourgeois"

who-is-who: very 'important' and popular in the trend, society and rich world to know VIP's in all cases (movie, designer, architects, authors...)


whopies

wikipeding: free (in every kind) and general dictionnary/enzyklopädy international: www.wikipedia.org

wimax: new -> wlan extension

win-win: situation also as trend

+++++ woMen: power women double better and more successful educated than men as managers and private; also: -> femme fatale,...

+++++ womanizer: power women (self) maker and also men who belief to know the new female generation

wonderbra

+ wonder girl, wonder-boy,...

woopers

workaholic

world-ag (welt-ag)

world's best

world formula

workaholic: loves to work without break end end till overworked or ill...runs hot -> shopaholic

OUT: ...


X

X-Mas & NY'04

X-Day: "X" is very popular and in youth marketing, street fun, sports, music, culture... the absolut sign & symbol, that something is really trendy - "so-don't-misuse,..."

X-Generation: gen-X, -Y, -Z...-> nexus

X-mas
X-men


OUT: ...


Y

yeti

yakuza: asia mafia
yakitori: roasted chickens asia style

YuGiOh: yu-gi-oh; hip trendy monster & freak collecting cards for kids and a erotic version for single adults; must-to-have the symbol on t-shirts; -> tamagotchi & Co.

OUT: ...


Z
zero: the double-zero from 2000 to 2010; zero age; ground zero

OUT: ...old & ex:

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