Yep, you read that right. According to Merriam-Webster, 2025’s “Word of the Year” is “slop.” Runners-up included gerrymander, performative, tariff, conclave six seven, and touch grass. The last of ...

Think of it as a word in time. It is the season for dictionaries, news companies, and other outlets to announce their Word of the Year. Wordwise, 2025, and I were not on good terms or even on the same ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Creepy, zany and demonstrably fake content is often called "slop." The word's proliferation online, in part thanks to the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For a Word of the Year, this selection might be kind of so-so. Or it might be completely meaningless. Welcome to the slang term ...

Dictionary.com has revealed its Word of the Year, and it is a phrase that Gen Alpha will instantly recognize. The website announced Oct. 28 that after narrowing down its shortlist of nominees, the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. “Six-seven still hasn’t even peaked in its usage yet,” Steve Johnson, director of lexicography for the Dictionary Media Group at ...

As years come to a close, dictionaries use their status as arbiters of language to make some kind of definitive case for the single word that summed up the previous 12 months. The word chosen isn’t ...

The winning word "has all the hallmarks of brainrot," according to the website Abigail Adams is a Human Interest Writer-Reporter for PEOPLE. Getty Dictionary.com has announced that its 2025 Word of ...

Creepy, zany and demonstrably fake content is often called "slop." The word's proliferation online, in part thanks to the widespread availability of generative artificial intelligence, landed it the ...

Creepy, zany and demonstrably fake content is often called “slop.” The word’s proliferation online, in part thanks to the widespread availability of generative artificial intelligence, landed it ...