‘Vape’ — the act of smoking from an electronic cigarette — has been chosen by Oxford Dictionaries as its international word of the year for 2014 after use of the term more than doubled over the last year.
Defined as to “inhale and exhale the vapour produced by an electronic cigarette or similar device” — ‘vape’ beat contenders including ‘slacktivism’, ‘bae’, ‘contactless’ and ‘indyref’ to be chosen as Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year 2014. language research conducted by Oxford Dictionaries editors shows that use of the word vape in 2014 has more than doubled compared to 2013.