WNW: 2009 Word of the Year

Each year, The New Oxford American Dictionary picks a new word that has become a part of the lexicon and declares it the word of the year.
Past popular words of the year you might recognize include:
2005: truthiness (a word invented and popularized by Stephen Colbert of The Colbert Report)
2003: metrosexual (my husband's not, thank goodness)
2000: chad (memories of that election are enough to make us all have horrid flashbacks, right?)
1999: Y2K (if you're too young to remember this one, be...