NEW YORK — Da “Yoopers” up dere in da U.P., Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, have hit it big with inclusion of their nickname in Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary and the company’s free online database.

The moniker for native or longtime residents of the Lake Superior region known for a distinctive manner of speaking and its Scandinavian roots was among 150 new words announced Monday by the Springfield, Mass., company.

The update of the Collegiate’s 11th edition has pleased Yooper Steve Parks, the prosecutor in Delta County, Mich., who pushed for more than a decade to have the word recognized by Merriam-Webster. He and others splashed their joy online when news spread back in March.

“People up here, we really do have our own identity and our own culture,” Parks said Friday. “We’re a really hardy bunch. We love the land, we love the lakes, we love hunting, we love fishing. You have to be very resilient to live up here.”

But really? Is Yooper as recognizable as, say, the Yankees of New England? Peter Sokolowski, a lexicographer and editor at large for Merriam-Webster, insists it has crossed from regional to more general usage.

“Plus, it’s just a really colorful word,” he said.

Many of the other new words and terms stem from digital life and social media — spoiler alert, hashtag, selfie and tweep — while others are food driven, including pho and turducken, a boneless chicken stuffed into a boneless duck stuffed into a boneless turkey.

Such is the Yooper culture that it has its own band, “Da Yoopers.” They rely on the dialect, usually for parodies that include “Smeltin’ USA.” And Jeff Daniels symbolizes the highest Yooper profile in film with his star turn in “Escanaba in da Moonlight,” out in 2001 and so named for the Delta County seat.

Climate change and the environment did not go unnoticed, with the addition of cap and trade, a system that limits the amount of carbon emissions companies can produce but allows them to buy extra emissions from others.

Fracking also made it into the update, which has already shipped to retailers. So did e-waste and freegan, one who scavenges for free food in store and restaurant trash bins as a way to reduce consumption of resources.