GIF, used as a verb, is the Oxford American Dictionaries’ word of the year. The dictionary company announced the pick with an animated GIF. The word of the year is “chosen annually as a word ...

Visuals like emojis and GIFs can make up for the useful cues that are often missing from digital chit-chatting: the raise of an eyebrow, the shrug of the shoulders, the rolling of an eye.

The GIF --a humble file format turned verb -- has been named Oxford Dictionaries USA Word of the Year for 2012. The award completes the 25-year-old GIF's stunning rise from format of choice for ...

That said, this doesn’t guarantee the GIF a lasting place in English language history — a word of the year is not necessarily a shoe-in to be promoted to the pages of the OED. A weekly ...

GIF faced stiff competition on its way to receiving the honor. Among runners up for word of 2K12 was "YOLO." ...