The New Word That Debuted the Year You Were Born

A whole hundred years before photobombing became a "thing," some practical jokers earned a new name for their escapades.

A bunch of your cheesy, carb-y favorite Italian treats made the crossover into the English language during the 1910s, with tortellini, fettuccine, and penne all getting new entries in the dictionary.

The archetype of a mysterious, seductive woman has long appeared in ancient literature, but the use of the French term — and the other popular slang word "vamp" — really solidified during the silent film era.

Likewise, a word for swoon-worthy men emerged the very next year. (We're not sure this haircut would still fly today though.)

That annoying brown-noser in every classroom who sucked up to the teacher for way too long.

Even today, the flagship Macy's at Herald Square is still the country's largest department store at one full city block – a veritable pre-Costco superstore that opened its doors decades ago. (And they still have the original wooden escalators from 1902!)

Not many women wore this newly named style at the time — if anything, it made it much easier to "bob" their hair per the growing trend.

The popularity of Palm Beach and other shores also led to two other new words: sunbathe and the (not-so-glamorous) swimmer's ear.

We've been doing it since the dawn of time ... which is why it's slightly surprising that Merriam-Webster records the first known use of the word only in 1918.

You might fanboy over Beyoncé right now, but obsessing over something is nothing new. (It's, in fact, almost an entire century old.)

Cowboy flicks made these outsize toppers a staple on the big screen — both then and in modern series like Westworld.

It's fair to say that silent film star Mary Pickford was the cat's meow back in the day as the "girl with the curls."

But if you're in Paris, a romantic date might end in un baiser amoureux ("a lover's kiss") instead.

Only when the motion picture industry began to take off did producers and moviemakers coin the term for where the magic happened: Hollywood.

A year after psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud published The Ego and the Id, we all felt a little more self-aware of our inner consciousness.

This one's bit of a misnomer. Rarely does a slumber party actually involve any "slumber."

Though the process has become much more advanced since its debut, the facelift has been helping people deal with the aging process for nearly 100 years.

Nope, the year of the perm didn't happen during the '80s. In 1927, this rather frightening gizmo allowed everyone to achieve their dream of a head full of curls.

The boom of the '20s was coming to an end, but not before a phrase was coined to refer to the rich industrial types who gained the most.

Space travel has always caught the imagination of dreamers, even decades before we'd actually make it up there.