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Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. An article based around a list.
Etymologies
- Blend of list and article (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The country music star is all butterflies and Jesus love onstage, but this scintillating Facebook quiz of a listicle is a cry for help from a cold, lonely prison.”
“listicle" - that all-too-popular journalistic device that organizes information into ranked lists, such as "The Top Five Ways to Flatten Your Abs" or "The 10 Best Margaritas in Town.”
“And while we might decry the era of atrophied attention spans that's brought us bite-sized blog posts and slimy creations like the "listicle", for better or for worse, the text is the medium of the moment.”
The Huffington Post: Stefan Sirucek: The Book of Bad Decisions: Texts From Last Night
“This is Newsweek refusing to do the legwork of real journalism focusing on the Jewish community, and instead creating yet another "listicle" that can do nothing but entertain.”
Steven I. Weiss: Why Newsweek's 50 Most Influential Rabbis...Aren't
“I don't know what I was thinking, mucking about yesterday with Time Magazine's annual Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world, when there was a much more important listicle to talk about: the 2009 list of the Top 25 Psychiatric Prescriptions, released by IMS Health.”
The Huffington Post: Top 25 Psychiatric Medicines List Released
“I'm sure nothing will wrong with these listicle-based counterterror plans!”
“Anyway, all of this research and criticism apparently resulted in this listicle on Joe Klein's blog, which was generally regarded as a game-changing moment in the 2008 election.”
The Huffington Post: Sarah Palin Lashes Out At Media, McCain Campaign And JournoList, Maybe
“Ed: Far beyond the lowly listicle, the piece is more a commentary on how storytelling is evolving, what the market wants to read, and who's innovating.”
“Please click on over to see Chait and Downie's wonderful listicle.”
“What this is, instead, is the music-listicle equivalent of the 1984-vintage Democratic Party, a cynical amalgamation of interest groups to be appeased, fooling no one, on display as obviously less than the sum of its parts.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘listicle’.
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Lists
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grocery list, santa's list, A list, backlist, frontlist, midlist, Franz Liszt, baronage, bibliography, index, list, listing and 66 more...
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learning
A list of words whose meanings I am learning, either because a) I don't know the meaning b) I know the meaning, but could stand to better appreciate certain inflections or secondary meanings or c) ...
louche, educe, loam, cob, sclerotic, palliate, axial, syndicalist, ecumenical, sally, fatuous, parvenu and 1380 more...
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Portmanteau Words
listicle, smog, Spanglish, brunch, bardolatry, spork, skort, jeggings, turducken, stagflation
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trendy words and phrases
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