Each year, the internet gives birth to a new lexicon, one that's as fast-moving and unpredictable as the online trends that ...

Boiled down, rizz is essentially someone’s metric of charm. An easy equivalent to compare it to is the slang term “game,” ...

If you’re a parent who hasn’t lost count of how many times you’ve asked your child, “Sorry… what does that mean?” this year, ...

Spending time around children this holiday season? USA TODAY defined four Gen Alpha slang phrases to know ahead of your ...

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 ...

Grody was initially spelled groaty, in the mid-1960s, and it’s basically used to describe something that’s slovenly, dirty, ...

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

An assortment of absurd, useful and funny words and phrases entered the vernacular this year. How well do you know them?

If 2025 slang taught us anything, it’s this: teens are funny, brutally honest, deeply ironic, and constantly inventing new ways to describe feelings adults are still Googling. The best move? Don’t try ...

Slang terms like "rage bait" and "6 7" reflect youth culture, spreading rapidly via social media platforms like TikTok.

What exactly drives the creation and spread of slang? There is some social science to it.