Tom Cruise and his crazy antics on the "Oprah Winfrey Show" has spawned the term, "jump the couch," which has been named 2005's Top Slang Term of the Year.
According to the lexicographers at Oxford University Press, shortly after the Cruiser wildly professed his love for his pregnant fiancee Katie Holmes by popping up on Oprah's furniture, the term "jump the couch" popped up in mainstream newspapers and all over the Internet.
And now, "jump the couch" has been named the "Slang of the Year" by the Grammar Nazis (editors) of the Historical Dictionary of American Slang, which describes the term as as "exhibiting strange or frenetic behavior."
Runners-up for Slang of the Year include "Floodweiser", which describes the canned water that beer maker Anheuser-Busch donated to hurricane victims (that's right: CANNED water), and "Spokesweasel" which is the public relations spokesperson for a celebrity or company.
