Dictionary.com has deemed the two-number phrase, "6-7" Word of the Year for 2025, and for those not up to speed on current slang, at least they have a place to look it up. The numbers together are ...

Dictionary.com announced the 2025 Word of the Year as “67” the popular phrase that has send parents and teachers alike into a spiral.

If you’re the parent of a school-aged child, you might be feeling a familiar vexation at the sight of these two formerly innocuous numerals." ...

The online dictionary announced on Oct. 29 that its Word of the Year is "6-7" (also "six-seven" and "67"), a slang phrase popularly used by Gen Alpha. While some interpret the phrase to mean "so-so" ...

Twitter isn’t just a social network, it’s now part of the electronic lexicon. Oxford Dictionaries Online has added Twittersphere to its listing of words, along with technology oriented acronyms like ...

From viral TikTok to classroom chaos, is 2025's Word of the Year a "prime example of brainrot" or a meaningful way to connect ...

First the venerable Oxford Dictionaries named the tears-of-joy emoji 2015's "word" of the year, and then Merriam-Webster went with a suffix: -ism. Dictionary.com had recently sanctioned "fleek" and ...

After Vice President Joe Biden used the term "malarkey" in a 2012 debate, searches for the word in online dictionaries surged. Now that dictionaries are readily available with a mouse click or finger ...

1. When you open a dictionary to any two-page spread, you are usually looking up a word. It is usually the case, though, that your eye wanders. Words are tantalizing, and a dictionary page holds so ...

Thanks to Miley Cyrus, the word “twerk” has been everywhere this week. And now it’s going in the dictionary. Cyrus’ gyrations during her performance at Sunday’s MTV Video Music Awards caused a stir ...