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Recent linguistic creation such as chillax, staycation or selfie (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

neologism

(Other definitions for neologism that I've seen before include "Newly coined word" , "Newly-coined word or expression" , "Brexit maybe" , "New word or phrase" , "new term" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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