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Jan. 12, 2015
Word of the Day

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\gluht\
noun
1. an excessive supply or amount; surfeit.
2. a full supply.
Quotes
Somehow, among the glut of social networks that emerged in the mid-2000s, Twitter survived Fail Whales, corporate back-stabbings and attempted buyouts by Yahoo, Facebook and Al Gore to become one of the biggest websites on the Internet, with 230 million monthly active users.
-- Victor Luckerson, "The 7 Most Important Moments in Twitter History," Time, November 07, 2013
Origin
Glut is a back formation of the word glutton referring to "a person who eats and drinks excessively or voraciously."
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