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Performed superbly, with no crumbs left. Sometimes extended to 'ate and left no crumbs', which is the same thing said by someone who has not.

Finished, doomed, beyond help. Applies to a person, a country or a group project with equal ease, which is why it stuck.

The generation born from about 2010, which entered the culture in 2023 as the children with the iPads, the slang nobody understood — skibidi, rizz, gyatt — and the Sephora habit. The record's entry for the first generation to be memed before it could vote.

Two numbers said with a hand gesture, meaning nothing. Every classroom on Earth had banned it by October 2025; the dictionary announcement in December was the coroner arriving.

💀 — 'I'm dead', the laughing emoji for people who found the laughing emoji embarrassing. Replaced 😂 as the reaction of the 2020s and became the subject of a generational argument about which one was cringe. The record's entry for the emoji that means the opposite of death.

'Bro', flattened into a sound of disbelief — 'bruh' — which became a Vine sound in 2014, a whole genre of reaction ('bruh moment'), and the most-typed one-word reply of the late 2010s. The record's entry for the syllable that means 'I cannot believe you'.

Extremely good, of food. Appeared on a fast-food chain's billboard, which is the beginning of the end for any word about food.

Second-hand embarrassment, as a noun, a verdict and a genre — from a verb to 'that's cringe' by 2015 and to the opposite of 'based' by 2020. The record's entry for the feeling that became a measurement.