Slang words make the world go around! Nothing explains exactly what we want to say in a more confusing, nonsensical way than good old slang words. Boomers and Gen X will remember "groovy" and "cool" ...

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 ...

“Yinz” is essentially Pittsburgh’s version of “y’all.” It’s used as a second-person plural pronoun, so someone living in ...

When Tony Thorne first started researching slang, he was largely on his own. This was in the ’80s, when, according to Thorne, the academic community “virtually ignored” slang as a part of linguistics.

A new study ranked the most annoying slang words, as well as those that are most confusing and most popular. Among the most annoying slang words analyzed were G.O.A.T., bae, hangry, Gucci, and ghost.

A Parents guide to decoding the lingo your kids use in texts, on TikTok, and IRL. Fact checked by Elizabeth Brownfield Teens in each generation develop a unique language of their own—and the same can ...

Vacay is one of many modern entries that are simply shortened versions of actual words. According to Merriam-Webster, the truncated form of vacation was first used in 1991. Does this word-shortening ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link The VSCO girl trend, a contemporary rehashing of "valley girls," rose almost as quickly as it fell, but the phrases popularized alongside the ...

Beyond offering collections of words and their meanings, dictionaries act as windows into the evolution of language, revealing the history, culture and constant flux of human expression. In their ...