HOPEFULLY the judges weren't shirt-fronted in the Australian National Dictionary Centre's word-of-the-year competition.
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The Canberra-based centre has nominated "shirt-front" as its word of 2014 following Prime Minister Tony Abbott's somewhat undiplomatic threat to Russian President Vladimir Putin ahead of the G20 summit in Brisbane.
At the time, Mr Abbott was expressing anger over the MH17 disaster, in which 38 Australians died when Russian-backed separatists shot down the Malaysia Airlines flight over Ukraine.
The comment made global headlines and was described as "unfortunate" by the Kremlin.
Shirt-front is mostly used in AFL to describe an aggressive front-on bump to an opponent and in rugby it refers to grabbing an opponent's jersey.
It can also mean to challenge or confront a person.
Foreign Minister Julie Bishop reports the term has now entered the diplomatic lexicon of many countries.
British Prime Minister David Cameron and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi both used the word in jest when addressing federal Parliament.
Shirt-front was triumphant over another prime ministerial catchphrase: "Team Australia".
Also up were man bun and coward punch.
