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  1. w00t interj. ☠ Dead 1996–2008 A cheer, with zeroes. Word of the Year in 2007 and never typed sincerely again after the press release. 5
  2. Wadagni Landslide n. ◐ Dying 2026– The result of Benin's presidential election on 12 April 2026, won by the independent candidate Romuald Wadagni with more than 94 per cent of the vote… 2
  3. WAGMI abbr. ◐ Dying 2021– 'We're all gonna make it' — a bodybuilding-forum motto from a decade earlier, borrowed by the 2021 boom as a group cheer and abbreviated to four lett… 3
  4. Wagwan interj. ● Alive 1990– 'What's going on' — the Jamaican greeting, via London, as the opener of a million messages and, since about 2010, a word that white politicians shoul… 3
  5. Wahala n. ● Alive 2010– Trouble, drama, stress — the Nigerian Pidgin word, from Hausa, which Nigerian Twitter made a staple of the 2010s ('wahala dey', 'wahala be like bicyc… 3
  6. Waifu n. ● Alive 2013– A fictional character one loves as one would a wife — 'my waifu' — from a 2002 anime's joke to the anime fandom's most-used noun. Husbando is the cou… 2
  7. Wait for It phr. ◐ Dying 2019– The caption promising a payoff — 'wait for it…' — placed over a video whose first five seconds are nothing, so that the viewer stays for the sixth. S… 3
  8. Wait, That's Illegal phr. ● Alive 2018– 'Wait, that's illegal' — a line from Halo 2 spoken when the player does something the game did not intend, as the caption for any clever cheat, explo… 3
  9. Wait, What phr. ● Alive 2015– The reply to a sentence that had a surprise in the middle — 'wait, what?' — and the record's entry for the two-word reaction that has the structure o… 3
  10. Wakuku n. ● Alive 2025– The grinning, gap-toothed blind-box doll that rose in mid-2025 as the challenger to Labubu — 'Wakuku' — with the same queues, the same bag-charm role… 2
  11. Walking Pad n. ● Alive 2022– A flat, foldable treadmill kept under a standing desk so one can walk through meetings — the walking pad — the work-from-home purchase of 2022 that m… 3
  12. Wall of Text n. ● Alive 2005– A post with no paragraph breaks, presented as an assault — a wall of text — and the reply 'didn't read, lol' that it earned. The record's entry for t… 3
  13. Wall Post n. ☠ Dead 2004–2011 A public message left on someone's profile for everyone to read. Replaced by the Timeline, which is a wall that scrolls, in 2011. 5
  14. Wallbang n. ● Alive 2002– Shooting an opponent through a wall, door or crate that the game's bullets can penetrate, and the kill that results. Counter-Strike players had the w… 3
  15. Wallet Drainer n. ● Alive 2021– A script, embedded in a fake mint page or a hijacked official account, that asks a visitor to sign a transaction and uses the signature to move every… 3
  16. Walmart Yodeling Kid n. ☠ Dead 2018–2018 A boy yodelling Hank Williams in a supermarket aisle, filmed by a stranger, and, within a month, at Coachella and on a country chart. The record's en… 3
  17. Walter n. ◐ Dying 2021– A bull terrier photographed from below, with a long snout and a look of alarm, named Walter and used for any reaction that needs a dog who has just h… 2
  18. Waluigi Effect n. ● Alive 2023– The observation, from a 2023 forum essay, that training a model to have a property makes it easier to summon a character with the opposite one: a hel… 4
  19. WAP n. ☠ Dead 2020–2021 A song and a dance and a discourse, in August 2020, which produced a month of politicians being upset, a dance challenge, and a lot of parents learni… 2
  20. Warcraft III n. ☠ Dead 2002–2020 A real-time strategy game with heroes, a story that became World of Warcraft's, and a map editor that produced Defense of the Ancients, tower defence… 4
  21. Warez n. ▲ Fossil 1990–2008 Pirated software, with a z. The scene, the couriers, the NFO files, the ASCII art; a whole civilisation that streaming made pointless. 4
  22. WarNymph n. ☠ Dead 2021–2021 A drop of ten works by the musician Grimes — flying cherubs with weapons over ruined landscapes, under the name WarNymph — that sold a reported $5.8 … 3
  23. Wash Trading (NFT) n. ● Alive 2020– Selling an NFT to yourself — from one wallet to another — to inflate its price history, its collection's volume, or your share of a marketplace's tok… 3
  24. Washed adj. ● Alive 2015– Past it, finished, no longer good — washed — as the verdict on an athlete, a gamer, or a friend over thirty who cannot stay up past eleven. The recor… 2
  25. Wasteman n. ● Alive 2005– A useless person — 'wasteman' — as the London slang's verdict on a man who contributes nothing, and 'waste' as the adjective. The record's entry for … 2
  26. Wat interj. ● Alive 2010– 'What', with the h removed and the meaning changed — 'wat' — as the reaction to something so wrong that a full word is too much, with an old woman's … 2
  27. Watch Dogs n. ☠ Dead 2014–2014 Ubisoft's hacking game, shown at E3 2012 in a demo that made the audience believe a new console generation had arrived, and released in May 2014 look… 4
  28. Watch Instantly n. ☠ Dead 2007–2011 The name under which Netflix, then a DVD-by-post service founded in 1997, first let members stream films and television to a computer in January 2007… 4
  29. Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae) n. ☠ Dead 2015–2018 A song that functions as an instruction manual: it names each move as it arrives, so the video teaches the routine while playing it. Copied by fans u… 3
  30. Watch Out, We Got a Badass Over Here phr. ☠ Dead 2011–2015 A line drawing of Neil deGrasse Tyson with both hands raised, traced from a 2011 interview, captioned 'Watch out, we got a badass over here' to mock … 2
  31. Water Dance n. ☠ Dead 2023–2024 The hip-roll and water-pour choreography from Tyla's 'Water', which made a South African amapiano song the world's TikTok dance for a winter. Ended, … 3
  32. Watson n. ☠ Dead 2011–2022 The IBM system that beat the two best Jeopardy champions on television in February 2011, took a decade of adverts, healthcare contracts and promises … 4
  33. Waymo Chinatown Burning n. ☠ Dead 2024–2024 The evening in February 2024 when a crowd in San Francisco's Chinatown surrounded an empty Waymo robotaxi, smashed its windows, covered it in graffit… 3
  34. WBK abbr. ● Alive 2016– 'We been knew' — the stan-Twitter acronym for 'this is not news', deployed under any announcement that a fandom had already worked out, and adopted b… 3
  35. WBU abbr. ● Alive 2008– 'What about you' — the return question, in three letters, that keeps a text conversation alive when neither party has anything to say. Also HBU, 'how… 3
  36. We Are Number One n. ☠ Dead 2016–2017 A song from a children's show, remixed thousands of times to fund the actor's cancer treatment. He died in August 2018; the remixes had already stopp… 0
  37. We Are the World 25 for Haiti (YouTube Edition) n. ☠ Dead 2010–2011 A charity single assembled from 57 geographically scattered unsigned and independent singers, each filmed at home, cut into one video to raise money … 3
  38. We Had ChatGPT Make Us a Script n. ● Alive 2026– A format in which a friend group performs, deadpan, a scene written by a chatbot — every line slightly off, every emotion labelled. The comedy is the… 3
  39. We Listen and We Don't Judge phr. ◐ Dying 2024– A confession trend in which couples, friends or colleagues take turns admitting something small and awful — 'we listen and we don't judge' — and then… 3
  40. We Love to See It phr. ● Alive 2018– 'We love to see it' — approval of a good outcome, in the collective voice, sincere or sarcastic depending on the outcome. The record's entry for the … 2
  41. We Move phr. ● Alive 2019– 'We move' — acceptance and continuation, after a setback: 'lost the job. We move.' The record's entry for resilience in two words, and for 'we go aga… 3
  42. We're All Gonna Make It phr. ● Alive 2011– The motto of an Australian bodybuilder who died in 2011 and became the gym internet's patron saint — 'we're all gonna make it, brah' — revived in 202… 2
  43. We're So Back phr. ● Alive 2022– The upswing of the internet's two-stroke emotional engine: 'it's so over' when anything goes wrong, 'we're so back' when anything goes right, often w… 3
  44. Weapons Run n. ● Alive 2025– The way the children run in Weapons — arms straight back, faces blank, at speed — recreated on every school run, in every car park, and by every dog … 3
  45. Weary Face n. ● Alive 2010– 😩 — the weary face, which the internet decided meant desire rather than tiredness, so that it now appears under attractive people more than under lo… 2
  46. Web 2.0 n. ☠ Dead 2004–2010 Rounded corners, gradients, beta labels and the user as the product. The last version number the web ever gave itself before it stopped being a thing… 4
  47. Web3 n. ☠ Dead 2021–2023 A decentralised web owned by its users, which meant tokens. Nobody could name the product for two years; the funding ran out first. 1
  48. Webcore n. ● Alive 2013– Tiled backgrounds, blinking GIFs, visitor counters, 'under construction' signs, a guestbook and a marquee — webcore — as the name given around 2020 t… 2
  49. Webfishing n. ● Alive 2024– A multiplayer fishing game with a chat box, a guitar and a cast of dogs and cats in hats, released in October 2024 by a single developer and adopted … 3
  50. Webinar Funnel n. ◐ Dying 2015– A 'free training' that is in fact a ninety-minute sales pitch ending in a countdown timer and a payment page — the webinar funnel — the standard mach… 3
  51. Webkinz n. ◐ Dying 2005– A plush toy with a code on the tag that unlocked a virtual version of itself in a browser world of rooms, games and a doctor. The record's entry for … 4
  52. Webring n. ↺ Undead 1994–2001 Sites linking to each other in a circle, on purpose, with no algorithm involved. Currently living its second life on the strength of that last clause. 2
  53. Wednesday Dance n. ☠ Dead 2022–2023 A goth teenager's stiff-armed dance, recreated to a sped-up Lady Gaga track. Ran for one winter and was performed by a Prime Minister's staff, which … 2
  54. Wednesday Dance (Revival) n. ☠ Dead 2025–2025 The record has the Wednesday dance from 2022. This is its return with the second season in August 2025, when the dance came back, did less, and was r… 2
  55. Weeb n. ● Alive 2005– A non-Japanese person too into Japanese culture — from a 4chan word filter in 2005 to a general term, then a self-description, then, by the 2020s, a … 3
  56. Weegee n. ▲ Fossil 2007–2012 A stiff, dead-eyed sprite of Luigi from the 1993 educational game Mario Is Missing!, which 4chan in 2007 declared could turn anyone who looked at it … 2
  57. Weighted Vest n. ● Alive 2024– The vest full of small weights worn on walks by people who do not otherwise look like they are training for the infantry — the weighted vest — a 2024… 2
  58. Weird Dall-E n. ◐ Dying 2022– The subreddit where the DALL-E Mini era's worst ideas were filed: prompts chosen for the collision of two things that should never share a frame, pos… 3
  59. Weirdcore n. ● Alive 2020– Low-resolution images with unsettling captions in a default font. The nightmare version of the early web, made by people nostalgic for it. 0
  60. Welcome to Bloxburg n. ● Alive 2014– A Roblox life simulator of jobs, houses and neighbourhoods, famous for charging 25 Robux to enter for years while nearly everything else there was fr… 4