Some people might describe 2025 as "sloppy" in more ways than one. Merriam-Webster's editors picked “slop” as the 2025 Word ...
Webster’s 2025 word of the year is “slop.” The word was first used in the 1700s to mean soft mud. It evolved more generally ...
The dictionary has selected one word every year since 2003 to capture and make sense of the current moment. Here’s ...
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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After a year filled with news about artificial intelligence, the transformation of pop culture and more, Merriam-Webster has ...
To select its Word of the Year, Merriam-Webster’s editors review data on which words rose in search volume and usage, then ...
There was a time when Urban Dictionary felt essential. Twenty-six years ago, when then-college freshman Aaron Peckham founded ...
Here's some news for the word nerds out there. Merriam-Webster, the country’s oldest dictionary publisher, is releasing a hefty, new Collegiate edition for the first time in 22 years. “So, the ...
It’s rare for a dictionary to claim that a word has no definition. But that’s what Dictionary.com said about its recently announced word of the year: “67,” pronounced “six-seven,” the slang term that ...