New year, new list of obnoxious slang terms proliferating society — from mind-numbing rap song catch phrases to good words ...

Chances are you've heard some of these terms over the past year-whether you understood what they meant or not.

A look back at 2025 through Gen Z and Gen Alpha slang, from 6-7 and brainrot to aura farming, and what these phrases reveal about youth culture.

Rizz is a description for someone’s charm and was popularized by streamer Kai Cenat. Here’s everything to know about the ...

Gen Zers, those adorable digital natives born between the years of 1997 and 2012, have rather famously given themselves a dictionary’s worth of new slang, mixing acronyms, emojis and internet-isms ...

A recent survey found that some parents are in favor of using slang in classrooms and that's not cap. More than 3 in 10 parents of K-12 students even believe slang terms should be added to school ...

Flipping through the thin pages of a dictionary, it can be hard to imagine the humans who actually put the thing together, deciding how each word would be defined and discovering how it trickled down ...

Language isn’t just how we speak—it’s how we tell on ourselves. Say the wrong thing in the wrong place (looking at you, “pop” drinkers in the South), and you’ll out yourself as an out-of-towner faster ...

On January 24, 2017, a user by the name of d0ughb0y uploaded a definition to Urban Dictionary, the popular online lexicon that relies on crowdsourced definitions. Under Donald Trump—who, four days ...

Holed up in his London flat, Jonathon Green has been toiling among his antique books for years, trying to bring a great work to the masses. That work includes 1,740 terms for sexual intercourse ...

We are a nation of slang slingers. Eight out of 10 Americans say they use slang, but half admit to not even knowing the meaning of the slang terms they use. These findings come from a recent survey of ...

When they make movies about the 2010s, which words will make notable appearances? Which will be made fun of, which will sound retro and cool, and which will be completely unnoticeable, because they've ...