 "Now 'Friend zone' makes it to the Oxford dictionary")
How many of you secretly longing after the person of your dreams, find yourselves firmly in the “friend zone”? Well take comfort in the fact that the Oxford English dictionary has begun to share your pain. In that it has legitimised the phrase. That’s right folks - the ‘friend zone’ is officially a thing. The definition as detailed in the dictionary is as follows: [caption id=“attachment_638492” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]  Getty images[/caption] 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: ex: I always wind up in the friend zone, watching them pursue other guys The coining of the word has been largely credited to Reddit. Along with the Oscar shout out to Kickstarter, the Internet take over of the non-virtual world is almost complete.
That’s right folks - the ‘friend zone’ is officially a thing.
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