If you're among the people confused by young folks who laugh at the punchline 6-7 or use "mogging" as a compliment, we have two bits of good news for you. First, your confusion is kind of the point ‒ ...

Has your 2024 been katz or have you been plagued by too many skibidi videos? Are you too sigma to care if your preen thinks you're demure? Did any of that make sense to you? They are just a few of the ...

What does it even mean?! Every generation has its own slang. But with Gen Z and Gen Alpha now spending more time online than watching television, their internet-based vernacular in particular has ...

Gen Zers, those adorable digital natives born between the years of 1997 and 2012, have rather famously given themselves a dictionary’s worth of new slang, mixing acronyms, emojis and internet-isms ...

IYKYK and if you don't, well there's always Urban Dictionary. Online language learning platform Preply released their 2023 survey of the most commonly used slang terms that parents of teenagers are ...

Do you know what "rizz," "sigma" and "skibidi" mean? The latest Generational Alpha slang can initially seem confusing, especially without a kid in your life to explain. But don't worry, here's your ...

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This story originally appeared on Mental Floss. As any good descriptive linguist will tell you, slang is and always has been a valid part of language. In the Victorian era, for example, you might say, ...