The phrase ‘friend zone’ was just added to the Oxford Dictionary online. ‘Friend zone’ is defined as follows:
noun
informal
a situation in which a platonic relationship exists between two people, one of whom has an undeclared romantic or sexual interest in the other:
I always wind up in the friend zone, watching them pursue other guys
Other new additions were dumbphone, cruft, appletini, social sharing and tweetable.
See the complete list of the words added for February 2013 see here.
