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Welcome to another Way With Words mini cast. I'm Grant Barrett. We're continuing our look at some of the words of the year of 2008. Last week we talked about the acronym Puma.

When Sarah Palin took the stage this year as a surprise pick for the Republican vice presidential

nomination, the election changed.

Her hugely popular public appearances, her good looks, and her

role as a Washington outsider served as catalyst for new words and catchphrases. For example, she described

herself as a hockey mom.

It's a decades old term for someone who spends a great deal of time

passionately aiding her children's interest in the sport that uses a puck and a stick.

The only difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull she was fond of saying is

lipstick.

So when Barack Obama said in a speech, you can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig.

Many people assumed he meant to call Palin a pig.

The Bruhaha about that was called

Lipstickgate by some pressing commentators.

That's not the only term that Caribou Barbie, as some people have called her, brought

to the fore. Her constant use of the term Maverick led writer and actor Tina Faye to use the

word Mavericki in her Saturday Night Live impressions of

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