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===Related terms=== The American Dialect Society had a number of related terms for [[word of the year]] nominations in 2004, including ''Janet moment'' ("unplanned bodily exposure at a public function"), ''boobgate'' ("scandal over Janet Jackson's exposed breast"), ''nipplegate'' (like boobgate, "but used earlier in squawk over Jackson's possible nipple ring"), and ''wardrobe malfunction'' ("overexposure in a mammary way").<ref>{{cite web |last=Glowka |first=Wayne |author2=American Dialect Society |author2-link=American Dialect Society |title=2004 Words of the Year Nominations |url=http://www.americandialect.org/Glowka_ADS_2004_Words_of_the_Year.pdf |access-date=October 7, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160819130159/http://www.americandialect.org/Glowka_ADS_2004_Words_of_the_Year.pdf |archive-date=August 19, 2016 |url-status=live}}</ref> People came up with clever terms to describe an occurrence of ''accidental nudity'', like ''nipple slip'' or ''nip slip''. The term has been translated into other languages to describe similar incidents, including ''{{Lang|nl|garderobedefect}}'' (Dutch),{{citation needed|reason=seems to appear frequently only in automatically translated texts|date=December 2012}} ''{{Lang|fr|incident de garde-robe}}'' (French), ''{{lang|it|disfunzione del guardaroba}}'' or {{lang|it|incidente del guardaroba}} (Italian),{{citation needed|reason=I am a native speaker and this doesn't even sound like Italian|date=October 2016}} and ''{{Lang|es|mal funcionamiento de vestuario}}'' (Spanish).{{citation needed|date=October 2016}}
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