Oxford Dictionaries has declared "Youthquake" as 2017's Word of the Year, reflecting what it calls a "political awakening" among millennial voters
It was first coined in the 1960s by Vogue editor, Diana Vreeland, who used it to describe sudden changes in fashion, music and attitudes
The Oxford English Dictionary defines youthquake as the "series of radical political and cultural upheavals occurring among students and young people in the 1960s".
Oxford Dictionaries said late Thursday that its use had seen a recent resurgence, to describe young people driving political change.
Oxford Dictionaries' Casper Grathwohl said it was "not an obvious choice".
But he said youthquake's use in everyday speech had increased five-fold during 2017
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