Have you heard any new words lately? Well, they’re being added to the English language all the time. But how do you know if a word’s just a bit of slang among friends - or if pretty much everybody will know what you mean when it trips off your tongue? Answer: When it shows up in the dictionary!

So, courtesy of the Associated Press, here are a few words that have recently been added to Merriam-Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary:

• Soul Patch - a wispy tuft of hair right below your lower lip that’s not big enough to be a goatee.
  
  
• Unibrow - Instead of an eyebrow above each eye with a space in between, it’s one long, uninterrupted line of hair.
  
  
• Drama Queen – someone who’s frequently over-dramatic or over-emotional.
  
  
• Himbo -That’s an attractive but empty-headed man. Think “male bimbo.”
  
  
• Empty Suit -  an ineffectual executive. 
  
  
• Mouse Potato - It’s a popular twist on the phrase couch potato – meaning someone who’s always in front of a computer.
  
  
• Bling -  which means big, flashy, glitzy jewelry. 
  
  
• Google – the online search engine name is now a verb meaning “to search for something on the Internet.”
  
  
  Let’s see if I can put these words in a sentence: “My friend the mouse potato was Googling himself at a cyber café, when this empty suit sat down just dripping with bling, sporting a soul patch and a unibrow – and he was so rude to the waiter, we couldn’t decide if he was a clueless himbo or just a drama queen.”