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The words were originally selected by a panel of 14 to 18-year-olds and divided into six categories: money, cool, friends, girls and boys, street language and put-downs.

Voting starts from today and will continue until the summer when the final choices are announced .

Words to have made it onto the long list include piff (good), stunting (showing off), sick (cool), breh (boy) and pinky (a £50 note). The winning words will appear in the forthcoming 30th edition of the dictionary.

Cormac McKeown, Collins head of content, said: "Teenage slang is notoriously hard to pin down if you rely on the normal channels; by the time it’s filtered into publications, broadcasts, and eventually mainstream speech its too late, young people have stopped using it."

The move by HarperCollins follows that of bookmaker Paddy Power. The betting site is asking people to vote on Facebook and Bebo for one of six former football players to appear in an upcoming ad campaign.