The latest Collins English Dictionary, launched this week, includes the following words and phrases:

funemployment – the condition of enjoying being unemployed.

greige – a colour between grey and beige.

grow the beard vb informal, to show a marked improvement in quality.

schooligan – informal, a person of school age who engages in acts of public disorder.

simples! – sentence substitute, informal, an expression used to suggest that something can be done or understood without any difficulty.

hashtag – (on social networking sites) a word or phrase preceded by a hash symbol (#), used to identify the topic under discussion, in order to enable a user to search for mentions of a particular subject.

haul queen – informal, a young woman who displays her recent shopping purchases in films uploaded to video-sharing websites, and is paid according to the advertising revenue those videos generate.

intexticated – informal, adj. (of a driver) distracted while writing or reading a text message on a mobile phone.

panic button (on a website) – a button that can be used to alert the police if a user is concerned that another user on the site may be committing a criminal act.

sext – vb to send a text message of a sexual nature.

tweet-out – a greeting sent to one’s friends via Twitter.

birther – informal, a person who believes that Barack Obama, US President from 2009, was not born in the US and is therefore not eligible to be President.

broken society or social recession – a perceived or apparent general decline in moral values.

Cleggmania or Cleggstasy – informal (in the UK), the surge in popularity for the politician Nick Clegg, after a series of live televised debates preceding the general election in 2010.

new politics – a form of consensual politics promised by the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government that took power in the United Kingdom in 2010.