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app: A smartphone application; the American Dialect Society's 2010 word of the year. "There's an app for that." Example: "is there an app for that?"

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Meaning
A smartphone application; the American Dialect Society's 2010 word of the year. "There's an app for that."
Example
"is there an app for that?"
Origin
Apple's App Store, 2008
Era
2008 onwards
Part of speech
noun
Sources
  1. 1.
    "App" voted 2010 word of the year by the American Dialect Society · American Dialect SocietyResearch · 8 Jan 2011
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