If you think "booty" is what babies wear on their feet and "peeps" are sounds that chickens make, the dictionary of teen slang may provide you with the knowledge to be "down." Students at Berkeley ...

Popular Slang Throughout The Years If you want to gain an appreciation for how different the world is today than it was ...

Language is a living thing—it shifts, evolves, and occasionally, straight-up makes you feel old. If you’ve ever overheard ...

It’s not easy keeping up with every new term in the lexicon of today’s youth — I felt old just writing that — but thankfully, there’s a new app to help you make sense of all the slang you hear on the ...

Dictionary.com has selected “67” as its Word of the Year for 2025, highlighting a slang term that has permeated youth culture ...

“Clatterdevengeance” is Jonathon Green’s favorite slang word, and he is in a position to have one. Green, known on Twitter as Mister Slang, is the world’s foremost English slang lexicographer and the ...

Language isn’t just how we speak—it’s how we tell on ourselves. Say the wrong thing in the wrong place (looking at you, “pop” drinkers in the South), and you’ll out yourself as an out-of-towner faster ...

Jonathon Green is a scholar of slang, a man who has spent nearly 40 years treating a lowbrow subject with highbrow rigor. Surrounded by glutted bookshelves in his London flat, the 70-year-old can ...

The use of slang in court proceedings can be tricky, especially in criminal cases where an uncommon slang term used by a witness can make a difference in a case. New York Times tech reporter Leslie ...

Does it ever feel like kids and teens are speaking in a different language? Have you ever had to look up the latest slang ...