Slang

● Aliven.✎ 2

Dead Rose Emoji

🥀 — the wilted rose, adopted in early 2025 as the emoji for heartbreak, disappointment and a specific kind of male sadness, replacing the broken heart for a generation that found the broken heart too direct.

▸ 2025peak 2025still up

◐ Dyingabbr.✎ 3

ICL

'I can't lie' — the honesty tag of 2025's acronym wave, appended to statements that did not need it and, occasionally, to lies. Filed with TS and PMO as a set.

▸ 2025peak 2025still up

◐ Dyingn.✎ 3

Manchild

A pop song about a useless man, released in June 2025, which became the summer's word for him and a genre of video in which women pointed at their boyfriends. The record's entry for the diagnosis as a chorus.

▸ 2025peak 2025still up

◐ Dyingn.✎ 3

Nokia (Drake)

A dance track from a post-beef album, and its video — shot on a phone at a party with a lot of spinning — which became the spring of 2025's club sound and the reason 'who's calling my phone' was a caption. The record's entry for the comeback as a ringtone.

▸ 2025peak 2025still up

◐ Dyingabbr.✎ 2

PMO

'Pisses me off' — an acronym that spread in early 2025 as part of a wave of three-letter compressions, and became more useful ironically than sincerely: 'ts pmo' under a picture of a nice dog.

▸ 2025peak 2025still up

◐ Dyingabbr.✎ 2

SYBAU

'Shut your bitch ass up' — a 2003 Urban Dictionary acronym dug up by TikTok in 2025 and used, mostly by children, as a comeback that adults could not immediately decode. The record's oldest 'new' slang of the year.

▸ 2025peak 2025still up

◐ Dyingabbr.✎ 3

TS

'This' — or, as the internet decided, 'this shit' — an abbreviation that spread because people assumed the second word and used it that way. A term that means less than it looks like it means, on purpose.

▸ 2025peak 2025still up

◐ Dyingphr.✎ 2

TS PMO ICL

'This shit pisses me off, I can't lie' — three acronyms that fused into one string and were pasted, ironically, under everything for a season. The moment Gen Alpha's abbreviations became a copypasta about themselves.

▸ 2025peak 2025still up

☠ Deadn.✎ 2

Very Chinese Time

A phrase from the RedNote fortnight: Chinese users telling American arrivals it was 'very Chinese time' — evening — and the exchange of daily rhythms, homework help and cat photos that followed. The record's entry for a time zone as a welcome.

▸ 2025peak 2025†2025

◐ Dyingn.✎ 2

APT.

A song named after a Korean drinking game — 'apateu, apateu' — which was the world's most-played chorus in late 2024 and taught every playground a word for 'apartment'. The record's entry for the drinking game as a pop hit.

▸ 2024peak 2024still up

● Aliven.✎ 3

Aura Points

The unit of aura: gained by doing something cool without trying, lost — usually in thousands — by tripping in public. A scoring system for dignity, kept by nobody and cited by everyone.

▸ 2024peak 2025still up

● Aliven.✎ 3

Birds of a Feather

A love song that became the sound of every wedding video, friendship montage and 'I'll love you till the day I die' caption of 2024, and the year's most-streamed song. The record's entry for the ballad as a TikTok format.

▸ 2024peak 2024still up

● Aliven.✎ 2

Bruzz

'Brothers', in the -uzz suffix of the huzz family — the boys, the lads, the group chat. Gen Alpha's word for the friends they are about to do something stupid with.

▸ 2024peak 2025still up

● Aliven.✎ 3

Crashout

A total loss of composure, usually loud, usually filmed — the noun form of crashing out. 'He had a crashout in the group chat.' The record's entry for the event, next to the verb.

▸ 2024peak 2025still up

● Aliveadj.✎ 3

Freaky

Strange, sexual, or just enthusiastic — 'freaky' — as 2024's adjective for anything slightly too much, from a dance to a sandwich order, and the source of 'freak matching' and 'match my freak'. The record's entry for the word that made weirdness a compliment again.

▸ 2024peak 2025still up

● Aliven.✎ 3

Gooning

A term from the adult corners of the internet for prolonged self-gratification, which escaped into mainstream slang in 2024 as an insult, a joke and a 'gooner' stereotype, said by teenagers who mostly meant 'wasting time'. The record files it because it is everywhere, and moves on.

▸ 2024peak 2025still up

◐ Dyingn.✎ 3

HOT TO GO!

A cheerleader spell-out — H-O-T-T-O-G-O — with arm shapes, done by a festival crowd of a hundred thousand in August 2024 and by every wedding since. The record's entry for the alphabet as a dance, and the summer Chappell Roan became the internet's.

▸ 2024peak 2024still up

◐ Dyingphr.✎ 3

Match My Freak

'Is somebody gonna match my freak?' — a lyric that became the internet's request for a partner, a friend, a colleague who is equally strange, said with total sincerity all summer 2024. The record's entry for the freak as a compatibility test.

▸ 2024peak 2024still up

☠ Deadn.✎ 3

Million Dollar Baby

A falsetto hook that was the sound of spring 2024 on TikTok — a car, a sunset, the drop — before the song existed in full, and the record's entry for the hit that was a snippet first and a track second.

▸ 2024peak 2024†2024

● Alivev.✎ 2

Mogging

To out-attractive someone by standing near them. From the looksmaxxing forums into the mainstream in 2024, and now a verb used by people who have never heard of a canthal tilt: 'he mogged the whole wedding'.

▸ 2024peak 2025still up

● Aliven.✎ 2

Pookie Bear

The extended form of pookie — for when pookie is not enough affection — used sincerely by couples and ironically by everyone else. The record files it separately because the bear adds a layer of commitment.

▸ 2024peak 2024still up

◐ Dyingphr.✎ 2

Squabble Up

'Squabble up' — get ready to fight — from a Kendrick Lamar track and the opening of his Super Bowl set, which became the 2025 phrase for any confrontation, from a group chat to a queue. The record's entry for the fight as an invitation.

▸ 2024peak 2025still up

◐ Dyingn.✎ 2

Tipsy (A Bar Song)

A country song built on a 2004 rap hook — 'everybody at the bar getting tipsy' — which spent nineteen weeks at number one in 2024 and made a line dance out of a J-Kwon sample. The record's entry for the interpolation as a summer.

▸ 2024peak 2024still up

● Aliveadj.✎ 3

Tuff

'That's tuff' — cool, impressive, hard — spelled the way it sounds, as the 2024 compliment among the young, and the reason 'aura tuff' was a caption. The record's entry for the misspelling as a mood.

▸ 2024peak 2025still up

● Aliven.✎ 3

Twin

'Twin' — a close friend, addressed as if related — from AAVE into general Gen Alpha use in 2024, and the last word of the year's most-repeated SpongeBob edit. The record's entry for the address that implies a shared face.

▸ 2024peak 2025still up

● Alivephr.✎ 2

Boots the House Down

Emphatic approval — 'she ate, boots the house down' — from ballroom and drag, where 'boots' has been an intensifier for decades, arriving on TikTok in 2023 via stan accounts. A phrase that means 'very' and sounds like an event.

▸ 2023peak 2023still up

● Alivephr.✎ 2

Chat, Is This Real

Asking the imaginary audience — 'chat' — whether something is real, as if life were a stream with a comment section. The record has 'Chat'; this is the question, which became the way people react to anything unbelievable, alone, out loud.

▸ 2023peak 2024still up

◐ Dyingphr.✎ 2

Delulu Is the Solulu

'Delusion is the solution' — the motto of the delulu era: believe it hard enough and it counts. A rhyme that made a coping mechanism sound like a plan, and was printed on tote bags by 2024.

▸ 2023peak 2024still up

● Aliveinterj.✎ 2

Erm

'Erm' — the hesitation, typed and said with a specific pursed-lip disapproval — as the 2023–24 prefix for a correction: 'erm, actually', 'erm, what the sigma'. The record's entry for the pause as a personality, and the nerd emoji's spoken form.

▸ 2023peak 2024still up

◐ Dyingn.✎ 3

Girl Hobbies

Hobbies that are not hobbies: online window shopping, rearranging a room, looking at the ceiling. The 2023 girl-prefix applied to leisure, and a joke about how little energy anyone had that year.

▸ 2023peak 2023still up

◐ Dyingn.✎ 2

Girl Rotting

Bed rotting, with the 'girl' prefix of 2023 applied to make it a lifestyle: lying down, a screen, snacks, no plans. Part of the girl-dinner, girl-math family, and the one nobody had to explain.

▸ 2023peak 2023still up

◐ Dyingn.✎ 2

Gyatt

An exclamation at a large backside, from a streamer's pronunciation of 'goddamn', which became one of the first words of Gen Alpha slang and the one their parents were most alarmed to learn. Dying since the parents learned it.

▸ 2023peak 2024still up

● Aliven.✎ 3

Huzz

'Hoes', respelled — 'for the huzz' — from Kai Cenat's stream vocabulary, which spread to TikTok in 2024 and to the schoolyard in 2025, where it became 'bruzz', 'chuzz' and a dozen other -uzz words. The suffix of a generation.

▸ 2023peak 2025still up

● Aliveabbr.✎ 3

IJBOL

'I just burst out laughing' — a replacement for LOL, adopted by stan Twitter in 2023 on the grounds that nobody had laughed out loud at LOL in a decade. The first successful challenger to a thirty-year-old acronym.

▸ 2023peak 2023still up

◐ Dyingphr.✎ 3

Nah I'd Win

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 beat a gorilla, could you finish the pizza, could you survive the meeting. 'Nah, I'd win.'

▸ 2023peak 2024still up

● Alivephr.✎ 2

Nothing Ever Happens

The doomer's serenity prayer: whatever the headline, nothing ever happens. Posted under every crisis as a bet that the crisis will fizzle, and proven right often enough to survive. The record's most cynical entry, and one of its calmest.

▸ 2023peak 2024still up

☠ Deadn.✎ 3

Ohio Final Boss

The strongest possible creature from Ohio — the end of the Ohio meme's logic, in which the state produces a boss fight. A Gen Alpha phrase that lasted about a school year before everyone's dad had said it.

▸ 2023peak 2023†2024

☠ Deadn.✎ 3

Ohio Rizz

Two Gen Alpha words stuck together for no reason — 'Ohio rizz' — as an example of the slang-overload joke in which children fused every word they knew into one nonsense phrase. Filed as a specimen of the fusion, not a meaning.

▸ 2023peak 2023†2024

☠ Deadphr.✎ 2

Ohio Skibidi Gyatt

The nonsense string of Gen Alpha words — 'Ohio skibidi gyatt rizz sigma fanum tax' — recited by adults as a joke about children and by children as a joke about adults doing it. The record's entry for the copypasta of a generation's vocabulary, filed with 'TS PMO ICL' as its 2025 successor.

▸ 2023peak 2024†2024

◐ Dyingn.✎ 2

Rizzler

One who has rizz — charm — used with maximum irony about someone who does not, and later the nickname of a small child in sunglasses. The word survived the child, barely.

▸ 2023peak 2024still up

◐ Dyingn.✎ 2

Sigma Face

The expression — jaw set, eyes forward, no reaction — associated with the sigma male edits, performed by children in mirrors and by adults in memes about children performing it. The face of a meme that was about not having one.

▸ 2023peak 2024still up

● Alivephr.✎ 2

Standing on Business

Handling your responsibilities, defending your position, not backing down — AAVE from the mid-2010s that went mainstream in 2023 through comedy sketches and a Drake verse, and is now used by people standing on very little business at all.

▸ 2023peak 2024still up

● Aliven.✎ 3

Touch Grass Energy

The quality of a person who has clearly been outside recently — calm, tanned, unbothered by the discourse. The positive form of 'touch grass', which was an insult, and the record's rare example of an insult growing a compliment.

▸ 2023peak 2023still up

● Alivephr.✎ 2

Womp Womp

The sound of a sad trombone, typed — 'womp womp' — as the reply to any complaint the replier does not care about. The 2023–24 dismissal, and the record's entry for sympathy as a sound effect, withheld.

▸ 2023peak 2024still up

● Alivev.✎ 3

Yapping

Talking too much, at length, about nothing — 'bro is yapping' — a word that was always there and became a meme in 2023, with 'yapper' as an identity people claimed proudly. The record notes the yap is generational.

▸ 2023peak 2024still up

◐ Dyingphr.✎ 2

Ate and Left No Crumbs

Did it perfectly, with nothing left to criticise — 'ate' with an emphasis. From stan and drag vocabulary into the mainstream in 2023, used about pop stars, outfits and, eventually, a colleague's spreadsheet.

▸ 2022peak 2023still up

● Aliveabbr.✎ 3

BFFR

'Be fucking for real' — the reply to any claim too stupid to engage with, from 2022, and the record's entry for the acronym that is entirely a sigh.

▸ 2022peak 2023still up

● Aliven.✎ 2

Blud

'Blood' — mate, bro — from London slang into international TikTok use by 2023, where 'blud thinks he's…' became a format for mocking anyone's delusion: 'blud thinks he's in a music video'. The record's most-travelled Britishism of the decade.

▸ 2022peak 2024still up