The expression "6-7" spread like wildfire last year, making its way outside the realm of usual adolescent slang and into the ...

While the latter refers to someone who looks exactly like another person, being called a choppelganger is not polite. Since ...

Speaking from his home in Washington, D.C., Fatsis reflects on the thousands of words that were added to the lexicon in 2025, ...

The tome of internet terminology, Urban Dictionary, has several entries that say mostly the same thing about what FAFO means. One post from 2017, which is one of the highest-rated posts, states that ...

Have you ever overheard two teens talking, only to realize you didn’t recognize any of the words coming out of their mouths? In a digital age where language evolves at the speed of a viral TikTok ...

Every language, every culture, every era has its own slang, and as these terms come and go, language expands and becomes more colorful. The proof is in the work of Jonathon Green, a.k.a. “Mister Slang ...

A few weeks ago, Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky asked his top lieutenants to identify the problems they saw quietly plaguing the company. Chesky called it the “fester list.” ...

If you’re not a Black American, there was likely a time when you didn’t know what “tea” meant—and no shade, you’re likely not alone. It’s only in recent years that slang words and phrases from Black ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- A recent study by Unscramblerer has uncovered the most popular slang in 2025. The slang words have been “heavily influenced by TikTok, Instagram, gaming, streaming, Gen Z, and ...

There’s a vast difference in texting etiquette amongst different generations. That Boomer thumbs-up reply is on the opposite end of the spectrum of Gen Z’s slang acronyms. So 22-year-old Jason ...