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I vape, you vape, they vape. The verb “vape” was chosen to be the Word of The Year in 2014 by the Oxford English dictionary. In the Oxford Dictionary, as a verb it is defined as: ‘to inhale and exhale the vapor produced by an electronic cigarette or similar device’. As a noun, it is defined as ‘an electronic cigarette or similar device’. Oxford Dictionaries even released a video to explain why the term was chosen:
According to Google Search Trends, the popularity of the term in news headlines has only been growing in the last couple of years. See the graphic below:
The press all over the world are using it was well. The term vapear (Spanish), vapoter (French) and dampfen (German) are also spiking. Check it out:
Vape on!