List of 'banished' words and phrases

Every year, Lake Superior State University, The BBC, New York Times, Time, and other institutions, publish lists of overused words and phrases that they would like to see banned, retired, and avoided. Listed below are some of their selections.

The lists

2014	2013	2012	2011	2010	2009	2008
selfie	fiscal cliff	amazing	viral	shovel-ready	green	truthiness
twerk	kick the can down the road	baby bump	epic	transparent/transparency	carbon footprint	perfect storm
#hashtag	double down	shared sacrifice	fail	czar	carbon offset	webinar
twittersphere	job creators/creation	occupy	wow factor	tweet	maverick	waterboarding
mister mom	passion/passionate	blowback	aha-moment	app	First Dude	organic
t-bone	yolo	man cave	back story	sexting	bailout	wordsmith/ing
on steroids	spoiler alert	pet parent	bff	friend as a verb	Wall/Main Street	authored
-ageddon	bucket list	win the future	man up	teachable moment	-monkey	post 9/11
-pocalypse	trending	trickeration	refudiate	in these economic times	icon/iconic	surge
intellectually bankrupt	superfood	ginormous	mama grizzlies	stimulus	game changer	give back
morally bankrupt	boneless wings	thank you in advance	the American people	toxic assets	staycation	x is the new y
Obamacare	guru	netizen	I'm just sayin'	too big to fail	desperate search	Black Friday
adversity	whatever	bro-	facebook as verb	bromance	not so much	back in the day
fan base	24/7	#hashtag	google as verb	chillaxin'	winner of x nominations	random
passion	end of the day	LOL/OMG/WTF	live life to the fullest	Obama-	it's that time of the year again	sweet
look…	world-class	boss	creative	aporkalypse	new normal	decimate
so… conj.	best practices	sexting	organizational	birther	unprecedented	emotional x
absolutely	artisan	crepuscular	effective	conflict minerals	exit strategy	makes x pop
anyway, adv.conj.	brand	epic	extensive experience	Great Recession	green shoots	it is what it is
hipster	gluten-free		track record	I'mma let you finish	historic opportunity	under the bus
iconic			motivated	meep		<3

Banned more than once, still at large

ask for it by name (1999, 2000), awesome (1984, 2007), basically (1984, 1986, 1993), the bottom line (1979, 1992), classic (1982, 1989), enclosed please find (1985, 1989), exact same (1981, 1990), first time ever (1982, 1983), if you will (1984, 1991), incidences (1988, 1993), irregardless (1979, 1988), live audience (1983, 1987, 1990), myself (1990, 1991), on a roll (1984, 1988), ongoing (1984, 1986, 1993), parenting (1978, 1991), proactive (1991, 1993), very unique (1983, 2002), viable alternative (1979, 1992), world class (1982, 1993), yuh know (1978, 1979)