India, Feb. 14 -- Squid Game, social media and a coffee craze came together to contribute one of the newest words in the Oxford English Dictionary.

"Dalgona" was added in December.

The beverage (2 tbsp each of instant coffee, sugar and boiling water, whipped to a froth) caught on in South Korea but was invented in Macau. It became a trend, a hashtag and entirely unavoidable after it entered the world of K-dramas, and then the Korean Netflix series Squid Game.

It's "a perfect example of the speed with which users of English in different parts of the world. can create and disseminate new words which can later find their way into the pages of a dictionary," OED executive editor Danica Salazar said, in a statement.

It is, in that sense, a...