Hostile, cruel, bad for everyone — toxic — as the gaming word for a player who ruins the chat, which met therapy-speak in 2018 and became the word for a person, a job, a relationship and, by the Oxford dictionary's decision, the word of the year. The record's entry for the adjective that swallowed everything.
Still alive: overheard Toxic used between two teenagers on a bus, neither of them explaining it to the other. That is the whole test and it passed.
The record notes 'toxic' now describes everything from a teammate to a workplace to a colour, and that it has lost its edge by cutting everything, and that the record has used it eleven times in this batch.
What does it mean? Write it the way you would say it out loud.
