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Charisma measured in points, gained and lost in public. Minus 1,000 aura for explaining it, which this entry has just done.

'Bro thinks he's [something he is not]' — the caption for anyone over-estimating themselves, on a video where they visibly are. 'Bro thinks he's Messi.' 'Bro thinks he's the narrator.' The format for deflation.

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

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.

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.

A blank look in reply to a question, attributed to an entire generation. A summer of columns from managers and a summer of replies saying the question was stupid.

The 2023–24 TikTok phenomenon of teenage boys posting worshipful LeBron James edits — slow motion, 'You Are My Sunshine', 'I love this man', memes of a LeBron on the bedroom wall — half-ironic devotion so complete that 'glazing' became the word for over-praising anyone. The record's entry for a 39-year-old basketball player as a religion for people who never saw him lose.

The catalogue of things a generation did that the next found embarrassing: 'adulting', Harry Potter houses, 'doggo', the pause, the skinny jeans. Named in 2023 and, the record notes, mostly a list of things that were once this dictionary's headwords.