How To Keep From Getting Kanyed on the Job

"Kanyed": To get interrupted by a self-absorbed jerk during a moment of glory.

A new slang word slipped into the lexicon when singer Taylor Swift began to accept her trophy for Best Female Video at the 2009 MTV Music Awards and Kanye West rushed the stage, grabbed the microphone from her hand and objected. Most recently, at the 82nd Annual Academy Awards ceremony, Short documentary winner Roger Ross Williams was accepting the Oscar for Music by Prudence when he got Kanyed by adversarial co-producer Elinor Burkett.