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  1. n00b n. ◐ Dying 1999– A newcomer, spelt with contempt. Still typed by people who were newbies when it was coined, which is the definition of dying. 3
  2. Nae Bother phr. ● Alive 1900– 'No problem' — 'nae bother' — as the Scottish acknowledgement that the internet adopted as shorthand for Scotland itself, alongside 'och aye' (which … 3
  3. Nah I'd Win phr. ◐ Dying 2023– Gojo's answer to whether he could beat the strongest enemy in Jujutsu Kaisen, which became the internet's stock reply to any hypothetical: could you … 3
  4. Nani?! interj. ◐ Dying 2017– 'What?!' — the Japanese interjection, shouted, as it was in a 1984 anime whose famous exchange became a 2017 meme. The word has since been used by an… 2
  5. Nano Banana n. ● Alive 2025– An image-editing model that went by a codename on a leaderboard before Google admitted it was theirs. The name stuck harder than the product's: peopl… 2
  6. Nano Banana Figurine n. ☠ Dead 2025–2025 The September 2025 trend of turning a photograph of yourself into a glossy vinyl-style figurine standing on a desk beside its own box and a monitor s… 3
  7. Nanoship n. ● Alive 2025– A relationship so small it never happened: eye contact on a train, a shared laugh in a queue, a like on a story. Named by a dating app in December 20… 2
  8. Naoero n. ● Alive 2026– The official name of the country formerly listed as Nauru, adopted on 30 July 2026, when the Republic of Nauru became the Republic of Naoero. A small… 3
  9. Naoya Hair Flip n. ● Alive 2026– A single panel of Naoya Zenin flipping his hair mid-fight, redrawn with every character who has hair and several who do not. The redraw meme of Janua… 3
  10. Napster n. ☠ Dead 1999–2001 Every song on every hard drive in the world, indexed. Alive for twenty-five months and sued to death by a drummer; the name survives on a streaming s… 3
  11. Nara Smith n. ● Alive 2024– A model who makes everything from scratch — cereal, gum, sunscreen — in a whispered voice while wearing couture, and became the face of the tradwife … 3
  12. Narwhal Bacons at Midnight phr. ☠ Dead 2009–2013 'The narwhal bacons at midnight' — a password for redditors to recognise each other in public, invented in 2009 and mortifying by 2012. The record's … 3
  13. Nations Championship n. ● Alive 2026– A new rugby union competition whose inaugural Southern Hemisphere Series ran from 4 to 18 July 2026, with a Northern Hemisphere Series to follow in N… 3
  14. Natty or Not n. ● Alive 2015– The eternal gym question — is that physique natural, or not — as a genre of video, comment and argument, applied to every large man on the internet s… 2
  15. Natural Disaster Survival n. ● Alive 2008– A Roblox game in which players stand on a small map and wait to see whether the round's disaster is a flood, a tornado, a meteor shower or an acid ra… 4
  16. Nature Is Healing phr. ☠ Dead 2020–2020 Wildlife supposedly returning to empty cities, mostly fabricated, then the joke about the fabrication. Died within weeks of becoming a caption for a … 0
  17. Navy Seal Copypasta n. ● Alive 2012– A paragraph of escalating military threats — 'I have over 300 confirmed kills', 'you are nothing to me but just another target' — pasted as a reply t… 3
  18. NBA 2K18 n. ☠ Dead 2017–2018 The 2017 basketball game in which the Virtual Currency system reached the point of buying haircuts, and the player's character started at a rating th… 4
  19. NBA Top Shot n. ◐ Dying 2020– Video highlights of NBA plays sold as 'Moments' in sealed packs by Dapper Labs, the CryptoKitties company, with a LeBron James dunk selling for $208,… 4
  20. Neckbeard n. ◐ Dying 2003– A man with a beard on his neck and not his face, as a type: socially inept, opinionated, online — the neckbeard — as the 2000s–10s internet's word fo… 3
  21. Necroposting v. ● Alive 2003– Replying to a thread that had been dead for years. Frowned upon everywhere and, in this dictionary, the entire methodology. 1
  22. Needy Streamer Overload n. ● Alive 2022– A Japanese game in which you manage a streamer called Ame, who wants a million followers and does not want to be alone, by choosing what she posts an… 3
  23. Negative Prompt n. ● Alive 2022– The second box in an image generator: what you do not want. A list of words, 'blurry, extra fingers, watermark, bad anatomy, text', that the model is… 4
  24. Neiro n. ● Alive 2024– The Shiba Inu adopted by Kabosu's owner after Kabosu — the Doge — died in May 2024, announced as the successor and immediately treated as one. A real… 2
  25. Neopets n. ↺ Undead 1999–2020 Virtual pets, a stock market, and a fandom that learned HTML to decorate its shop. Lost most of its games when Flash died and was bought back by fans… 7
  26. Nephew n. ◐ Dying 2015– 'Nephew' — the address for a younger, sillier person, said with an uncle's exasperation, from Black Twitter in 2015 alongside 'Uncle Denzel', the pho… 3
  27. Nepo Baby n. ● Alive 2022– The child of famous parents with a career of their own, named as a category by a magazine cover in December 2022 and argued about for a year by the c… 2
  28. Nerd Emoji n. ● Alive 2015– 🤓 — the nerd face, adopted around 2021 as the reply to anyone being too pedantic, too correct, or too long: 'erm, actually 🤓'. The record's entry f… 2
  29. Nerf v. ● Alive 1997– To weaken something in a patch, from the foam toy. Now used about tax policy by people who have never played anything. 6
  30. Nervous System Regulation n. ● Alive 2021– The wellness framing in which anxiety, stress and being tired are 'dysregulation', and the cure is cold water, humming, shaking, and lying on the flo… 3
  31. Netflix and Chill phr. ☠ Dead 2014–2016 An invitation with a euphemism inside it. Explained in every newspaper's lifestyle section in autumn 2015, and thereby ruined for its purpose. 3
  32. Netflix Password Crackdown n. ☠ Dead 2023–2023 The month Netflix started charging for the password your ex still used, and the internet's response: memes about the 'household', the extra member fe… 3
  33. Netiquette n. ▲ Fossil 1993–2008 The idea that there were manners online and that they could be taught. Filed as a fossil because both premises have been disproved. 3
  34. Netscape Navigator n. ☠ Dead 1994–2008 The browser that was the web in 1995 — 80 per cent of users, a $2 billion IPO that started the dot-com bubble, and a throbbing 'N' in the corner whil… 2
  35. Netscape Now Button n. ☠ Dead 1995–2000 A badge insisting the page looked better in the browser you were probably already using. The first time the web asked you to install something to see… 2
  36. Neumorphism n. ☠ Dead 2019–2021 Soft shadows making buttons look extruded from the page. Beautiful on Dribbble, unusable in a browser, and gone before anyone shipped it. 3
  37. Neuro-sama n. ● Alive 2022– An AI VTuber — a language model with an anime avatar and a British creator she insults — who streams, sings, plays games and has, since 2023, a large… 2
  38. Neutral Face n. ● Alive 2012– 😐 — the neutral face, which is never neutral: it is the reply to a bad joke, a bad excuse, or a message that deserved nothing. The record's entry fo… 2
  39. New START Expires n. ● Alive 2026– The expiry on 5 February 2026 of the New START nuclear arms treaty between the United States and Russia, the last remaining agreement limiting the tw… 2
  40. Newbie n. ◐ Dying 1990– A newcomer, before the spelling turned hostile. Now used only by newbies. 0
  41. Newgrounds n. ● Alive 1995– Everything Flash, by everyone, unreviewed. Outlived Flash itself, which nobody expected, and is now the fossil bed in which most of the 2000s can be … 4
  42. NFT n. ▲ Fossil 2021–2022 A receipt for a JPEG, sold as ownership. Trading volume fell 97 per cent in eighteen months; the apes remain, unsold, in their wallets. 0
  43. NFT Bro n. ◐ Dying 2021– The person of 2021: hexagon profile picture, 'gm' in every reply, a thread about why your scepticism was ngmi, and a laser-eyed conviction that the p… 3
  44. NFT Insider Trading Case n. ☠ Dead 2022–2025 The first criminal case described by prosecutors as insider trading in NFTs: a former OpenSea product manager was charged in June 2022 with buying pi… 3
  45. NFT Royalties War n. ☠ Dead 2022–2024 The eighteen months in which NFT marketplaces stopped enforcing the royalty that creators had been promised on every resale. X2Y2 made it optional in… 4
  46. NFT Winter n. ☠ Dead 2022–2024 The period from roughly May 2022 to the end of 2023 in which NFT trading volume fell by more than ninety per cent from its January 2022 peak, floor p… 4
  47. NFTs Are Dead phr. ◐ Dying 2023– The headline of the autumn of 2023, sourced to a report from a gambling-affiliate site that found around 95 per cent of 73,000 collections it examine… 3
  48. NGL abbr. ● Alive 2019– 'Not gonna lie' — the honesty prefix of the early 2020s, placed before opinions that did not need it, and, in 2022, the name of an anonymous-question… 3
  49. NGMI abbr. ◐ Dying 2021– 'Not gonna make it' — the verdict on anyone who sold early, doubted, or asked a reasonable question. The insult of the 2021 boom, and the record's no… 3
  50. Nice Guy™ n. ● Alive 2010– A man who describes himself as nice and behaves otherwise when refused — the Nice Guy, with a trademark symbol — as the internet's name for the type,… 2
  51. NicheTok n. ◐ Dying 2020– The self-aware corner of TikTok that makes jokes about being a corner of TikTok — NicheTok — as the 2020 label for hyper-specific humour, in-jokes ab… 3
  52. Nick Wilde Scuba Dance n. ● Alive 2026– A short clip of Nick Wilde in scuba gear doing a small, pleased dance, cut from Zootopia 2 and set to everything. The fox was already the internet's;… 3
  53. Nickelodeon Animation Folded n. ◐ Dying 2026– Paramount Skydance's announcement in April 2026 that Nickelodeon Animation Studio would no longer operate as a separate company and would become a la… 2
  54. Nicolandria n. ● Alive 2025– Nic Vansteenberghe and Olandria Carthen — 'Nicolandria' — the friends-to-couple pairing on the seventh season of Love Island USA whose slow burn, and… 3
  55. Nicolas Cage Deepfakes n. ☠ Dead 2018–2019 The comic strand of the original deepfake wave: Nicolas Cage's face swapped onto Amy Adams in Man of Steel, onto Harrison Ford in Raiders, onto every… 3
  56. Nidhogg n. ☠ Dead 2014–2018 Two fencers in flat colours fight a tug-of-war across a set of screens, and the winner is eaten by a giant worm. Shown at festivals and parties for y… 4
  57. Nietzschean Penguin n. ● Alive 2026– A penguin who has read Nietzsche and is not okay — a mascot built on an existential bird — which arrived in January 2026 and became the year's first … 3
  58. Nigerian Prince n. ● Alive 1995– The email from a royal who needs help moving a fortune and only your bank details will do — the Nigerian prince — as the 1990s scam that became a phr… 3
  59. Night in the Woods n. ◐ Dying 2017– A cat called Mae drops out of college and comes home to a Pennsylvanian mining town where the shops are closing and her friends are tired, and the pl… 4
  60. Nightcore n. ● Alive 2002– Existing songs remixed to a higher pitch, usually with a faster beat, almost always by fans rather than rights holders. Introduced in 2002 as a tranc… 4