This afternoon I was helping a student find pronunciations for a couple of medical terms on Collins.com, a free dictionary site, when I spotted a list of “latest published words”. Amazeballs was at the top, and I had to see how this slang term, most often used by my friends to describe ridiculously cute cat photos, is actually defined. So, if your parents or colleagues want to know why you just exclaimed, “OMG! That is amazeballs!”, just send them to the dictionary: