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Wed 11 Nov 2009'Unfriend': dictionary's word of the year
IT IS the online version of the "cold shoulder", and a word that will cause lovers of the English language to wince. But it's a term that defines the times we live in.
A verb, it means to remove someone as a "friend" on a social networking site, as in: "I decided to unfriend my brother from Facebook last night after we had an argument."
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