The term "woke," originating from African-American Vernacular English, signifies social consciousness and alertness to ...

Saturday Night Live just nailed what it's like to live with tweens and teens in a new skit. A group of "12-year-old boys" ...

Chances are you've heard some of these terms over the past year-whether you understood what they meant or not.

Are you showing a little too much enthusiasm? Chances are, you might be “glazing,” and we're not talking about doughnuts or pottery. While the definition for “glaze,” according to Merriam-Webster, is ...

After weeks of deliberation and more than 37,000 votes worldwide, the Oxford English Dictionary has announced a Generation Alpha slang term is its 2024 word of the year, "brain rot." Here's an ...

As slang finds its way into lexical institutions, experts ponder its place on the internet. By Julia Carpenter There was a time when Urban Dictionary felt essential. Twenty-six years ago, when ...