Pop Culture Word Search
Forty words from pop culture: the meme, the hashtag and the emoji, the selfie and the influencer, the summer blockbuster and its sequel, the red carpet, the paparazzi and the fandom that follows a star.
Many of these words are younger than they look. The biologist Richard Dawkins coined meme in his 1976 book The Selfish Gene, for an idea that copies itself from mind to mind the way a gene copies itself from parent to child. Chris Messina suggested the hashtag to Twitter users in 2007, and Oxford Dictionaries named selfie its word of the year in 2013.
Paparazzi comes from Paparazzo, a news photographer in Federico Fellini's 1960 film La Dolce Vita. Emoji is Japanese, from e for picture and moji for character, and has nothing to do with emotion; Shigetaka Kurita drew one of the first sets, 176 small icon images for a Japanese phone company, in 1999. The blockbuster took its name from World War II bombs big enough to flatten a city block.
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Puzzle Vocabulary Words
Below you can see all possible words that the topic Pop Culture has.
Depends on difficulty level you select in the game amount of words hidden in the puzzle will be different.
In Easy game you have to find up to 5 words, medium game can have up to 15 words and hard puzzle can have up to 23 words.
Every time you start a new game - our word search generator will pick random words to build the puzzle.
- Blockbuster
- Box Office
- Boy Band
- Cameo
- Catchphrase
- Celebrity
- Chart
- Cosplay
- Craze
- Easter Egg
- Emoji
- Fad
- Fandom
- Franchise
- Grammy
- Hashtag
- Icon
- Influencer
- Jingle
- Meme
- Merch
- Nostalgia
- Oscar
- Paparazzi
- Playlist
- Podcast
- Red Carpet
- Remake
- Remix
- Retro
- Selfie
- Sequel
- Slang
- Slogan
- Spoiler
- Superstar
- Throwback
- Trend
- Unboxing
- Viral