Chances are you’ve heard some of these terms over the past year—whether you understood what they meant or not.
(WSYR-TV) — If you’ve been on TikTok, Instagram or X, you might have come across the terms “Rizz,” “Coquette” and “Pookie” and thought, “What does that even mean?” On TikTok, a favorite among US teens ...
What are the kids even saying these days? It can be difficult to keep track of all the new words Gen Z and Gen Alpha say on a consistent basis. Cap? Rizz? Sometimes it can feel like your child, ...
From the East Coast to the Midwest and beyond, these 10 regional slang terms reveal how language changes across the United ...
(Jenny Kane, Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.) Are you often hearing new words you just don’t understand? Every generation has slang, used ...
Similar to microshifting, coffee badging was another new workplace trend in 2025, in which workers turn up at the office, ...
Slang, a term for the informal, non-standard lingo used in social settings, doesn't originate in a vacuum. The invented words we casually throw around come from the culture around us, particularly the ...
Like any online community, bookish spaces come with their own lingo. Ever heard someone refer to an author as an “auto-buy”? They’re telling you they would pick up anything said author published ...
Skiers are a funny bunch. When they ramble about the snow conditions and what they plan to ski during any given day, they often use sometimes made-up words like "stoke," "squeeze," or—our ...