"Slop," which refers to creepy, zany and demonstrably fake content, has landed the title of Merriam-Webster's 2025 word of ...
Creepy, zany and demonstrably fake content is often called “slop.” The word’s proliferation online, in part thanks to the ...
In the announcement, Merriam-Webster said that the word slop originated in the 1700s to mean "soft mud" before the meaning ...
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Some people might describe 2025 as "sloppy" in more ways than one. Merriam-Webster's editors picked “slop” as the 2025 Word ...