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Cue the "mic drop" because Oxford Dictionaries introduced new words on Wednesday.

The list gives legitimacy to the acceptable time of day to start drinking, known as "beer-o-clock," and finally acknowledges that "awesomesauce," can be used to describe something great.

OxfordDictionaries.com is the branch of the Oxford dictionaries that focuses on modern language, words that people are using, but may not be added to the Oxford English Dictionary. The new words were released as part of its quarterly update.

So feel free to use "butt-dial" as an excuse next time you accidentally call your ex, or just let them know it's "NBD." (That means no big deal.)

Here are ten of the new words and their definitions from oxforddictionaries.com:

• Mic drop (noun): An instance of deliberately dropping or tossing aside one's microphone at the end of a performance or speech one considers to have been particularly impressive.

• Manspreading (noun): The practice whereby a man, especially one travelling on public transport, adopts a sitting position with his legs wide apart, in such a way as to encroach on an adjacent seat or seats.

• Hangry (adjective): Bad-tempered or irritable as a result of hunger.

• Cat cafe (noun): A cafe or similar establishment where people pay to interact with cats housed on the premises:she was one of many waiting in line this morning for the opening of North America's first pop-up cat cafe.

• Redditor (noun): A registered user of the website Reddit.

• Rage-quit (verb): Angrily abandon an activity or pursuit that has become frustrating, especially the playing of a video game.

• Butt-dial (verb): Inadvertently call (someone) on a mobile phone in one's rear trouser pocket, as a result of pressure being accidentally applied to a button or buttons on the phone.

• Grexit (noun): A term for the potential withdrawal of Greece from the eurozone (the economic region formed by those countries in the European Union that use the euro as their national currency.

• Rando (noun): A person one does not know, especially one regarded as odd, suspicious, or engaging insocially inappropriate behaviour.

• Brain fart (noun): A temporary mental lapse or failure to reason correctly.

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