Test your knowledge of 1980s slang! See if you can define these 25 Gen X phrases that most people today have completely forgotten. I work as a Writer at BuzzFeed, creating and curating quizzes, listicles, and articles that cover everything from pop…
Germans arrive in Darlington to break a tailors’ strike and trouble ensues, as Echo Memories reports. THE year of 1866 was strewn with strikes and industrial strife. Anyone who was anyone was out: puddlers, moulders, ironworkers, joiners, ship-joiners, masons, bricklayers, brickmakers,…
image of a sunburned Southern man in a bayou outside of New Orleans, Louisiana The old phrase goes ‘American by birth, Southern by the grace of God.’ And according to Google, the exact origins of that phrase are not known…
Dictionary.com has named “maxxing” its Word of the Year for 2026, highlighting the growing influence of internet slang and the popularity of online self-improvement trends. Announced on Monday, October 26, the selection reflects how people are increasingly using social media to…
Parents puzzling over Gen Alpha lingo can start here. We decode 3 of the 5 slang terms a 2026 roundup defines. In Gen Alpha usage, scuba names a dance that tells onlookers someone or something smells bad. Tweens and teens act it out…
Like clockwork, once a new generation reaches a certain age, they start coming up with words that sound absolutely alien to previous generations. Of course, you always think it could never happen to you. You aren’t like your parents; you’re…
Updated on: October 29, 2025 / 1:39 PM EDT / CBS News Sorry, parents and teachers of middle schoolers: your days of hearing "67" shouted randomly are far from over. Dictionary.com on Wednesday announced it has chosen "67" — pronounced "six seven," not sixty-seven — as its 2025 Word…
By Martha A. Lavallie Slang is a fun and lively part of language, often shaping the way we communicate. You might be surprised to learn that many slang terms you use today actually came from films and TV shows. These words…
Though 95 percent of currently unionized workers have never voted for the union that represents them, union bosses have generally felt the need to pay lip service to the idea that, at least at one point in the past, a majority…
Merriam-Webster added 1,400 words and definitions. Here are 20 of them, from AGI and uncanny valley to cuffing season and cake pop. Looksmaxxing reaches the dictionary as one of the social media culture terms in this batch, and the announcement salutes it…
New words, vibe shifts, and internet dialects moving from posts to everyday speech.
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