The public downfall of many high-profile figures has influenced Macquarie Dictionary's choice for Word of the Year for 2017 - Milkshake Duck.
The Dictionary's editor, Susan Butler, says the term was inspired by a meme by Australian cartoonist Ben Ward in 2016.
"The milkshake duck is presented as this cute duck that loves drinking milkshakes, and everyone falls in love with it, and then two seconds later it's revealed as being racist, so suddenly everyone has to turn around and hate it."
She says the #MeToo movement led to a flood of milkshake ducks being revealed globally.
Ms Butler cites celebrity gardener Don Burke - accused by several women of sexual harassment - as the most prominent Australian example.
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