pluto (v) – to demote or devalue something (as happened to the former planet Pluto when the General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union decided Pluto no longer met its definition of a planet and demoted it to its present status as a ‘dwarf planet’ or a ‘plutoid’.)
The decision to recognize this new meaning for the word ‘pluto’ was made by the American Dialect Society, a noble institution that has been nitpicking word usage for 117 years. ‘Pluto’ was their 2006 word of the year.
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