misogynistic
Misogynistic climbed 4,000 spots in rank from 2013. A handful of related terms were trending to a lesser degree, including misogynist and sexism. Events in the news that may have contributed to the interest were the Santa Barbara shooting in May in which seven people were killed by a young man who targeted a sorority house, and the social media campaign #YesAllWomen that emerged shortly thereafter, which explored experiences and perceptions of sexism and gender norms.

sociopath
Sociopath is perhaps the most interesting of the trending words for 2014. It broke into our top five most looked up terms, occupying a rank between top-lookup fixtures metaphor and affect. Interest in the term was high 2013, so the increase in rank was just 40 spots, but the steady and growing interest is noteworthy. Fictional characters with tendencies that some might label sociopathic have been popping up all over TV and film; notable examples this year include Louis Bloom in Nightcrawler, Amy Dunne in Gone Girl, Hannibal Lecter in Hannibal, and the Underwoods in House of Cards. More recently, in the podcast Serial, the host Sarah Koenig entertains the idea of whether or not convicted murder Adnan Syed is a sociopath. People were also curious about the term psychopath, which jumped 988 spots, and sociopathy, which was up by over 11,000. Narcissist moved up 648 spots.

caliphate
The word caliphate spiked in interest this year, jumping over 17,000 spots in rank. The term was used in a flurry of news stories in June, when ISIS declared itself a caliphate and shortened its name to The Islamic State. We define caliphate as “the rank, jurisdiction, or government of a caliph,” a caliph being a spiritual leader of Islam. People were also looking up the word caliph this year; the term saw a shift of 6,945 spots.

Notable drops in rank for 2014 include the word Facebook, which was down 3,574 spots, furlough, a word that won the title of our most commonly misspelled term in 2013 but was down 6,972 spots in 2014, and twerking, which dropped 12,001 spots with twerk down 3,149. Sorry, Miley.

Top 50 Trending Slang Terms - Live - 26th December 2014
1. VATO Dude (Mexican)
2. MANKY Nasty, dirty
3. SAP Sad And Pathetic / Fool
4. THUG Violent criminal  / Person struggling to make something of their life  
5. PYP Play Your Position
6. PIU         Pump It Up
7. TATA Goodbye
8. EWW Expression of disgust
9. SFSG So Far So Good
10. CR Credit / Copyright / Carriage Return
11. BIM Barbados
12. PDP Pretty Darn Precious
13. ROOTS Type of Reggae music
14. GEEZ Jesus
15. HBU? How About You?
16. MVA Motor Vehicle Accident
17. MY BAD (Flippant) apology
18. OMZ Oh My Zeus
19. UKT You Know That
20. INTP Introverted iNtuitive Thinking Perceiving (personality type indicator)
21. IYKWIM If You Know What I Mean
22. IAWTC I Agree With That/This Comment
23. DT Down Town
24. DITTO The same, me too, I agree
25. CKI Chair-Keyboard Interface

1 Robin Williams
2 World Cup
3 Ebola
4 Malaysia Airlines
5 Flappy Bird
6 ALS Ice Bucket Challenge
7 ISIS
8 Ferguson
9 Frozen
10 Ukraine

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I didn't see the Arfcom word of the year on that list.

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I didn't see the Arfcom word of the year on that list.

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Frozen is a Disney movie

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I didn't see the Arfcom word of the year on that list.

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Frozen has been out for over a year and it isn't slowing down at all in popularity.

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Most Googled of 2014 I don't understand #9 "Frozen"???

1 Robin Williams
2 World Cup
3 Ebola
4 Malaysia Airlines
5 Flappy Bird
6 ALS Ice Bucket Challenge
7 ISIS
8 Ferguson
9 Frozen
10 Ukraine
The person who complains mos

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This was an election year and this is the most googled shit?  We are fucked.

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Urban Dictionary's list, of course can't be pasted here due to nature of ud.