It’s official: Group selfies are called an USIE

Selfie was named ‘word of the 2013’ by Oxford Dictionaries but now there’s a new term on the block: The Usie.

Pronounced ‘uss-ee’ – and rhyming with ‘fussy’ – the word marks the growing trend for people squeezing their friends into their camera frame, as well as themselves.

In contrast to one-person selfies, usies are ‘more about the relationship, and less about you and your individual looks.

The word, which can be spelled usie, and ussie, has been showing up in written material since at least April 2013, according to Ben Zimmer, executive producer of Vocabulary.com and language columnist for The Wall Street Journal.