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At last, recognition for custard creams

The custard cream has finally made it into the Oxford English Dictionary - after 100 years.

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Literary experts decided it was time the vanilla-filled snack was included when nine out of 10 people voted it their top biscuit in a survey.

It joins a host of new words to make the 11th edition of the dictionary - including muffin top, sleb and cosplay, reports the Daily Mirror.

Muffin top is described as "a roll of fat visible above the top of a pair of women's tight-fitting low-waist trousers".

Celebrity, already shortened to celeb, undergoes a further shrinkage to sleb and cosplay describes the practice of dressing up as a character from a film, TV show or book.

Also making their debuts are the terms car crash and train wreck - as in "her life is turning into a car crash".

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