This popular Gen X slang word baffled the Gen Z participants who took part in our quiz, with several theorizing it was ...

Each year, the internet births a new lexicon, one that's as fast-moving and unpredictable as the online trends that fuel it.

I don't mind that my son uses slang. He loves when I ask him what a word means, and it gives us something to connect over during his pre-teen years.

From "yeet" to "social distancing," new words and phrases constantly emerge and evolve in American English. But how do these ...

The slang drew from various sources, including Cockney rhyming slang, maritime vocabulary, tavern slang, popular literature and music, fashion trends, and even local dialects. And in many cases, ...

"Big yikes" is a phrase used in response to "something that's really embarrassing, disturbing, or shocking," said Reader's Digest. Using it "expresses a strong sense of cringe, awkwardness or ...

If you're feeling totally lost online (or eavesdropping on your tweens) these days, 'Algospeak' author Adam Aleksic can help ...

When I was a kid back in the 1980s, we used to use a lot of slang terms to describe things around us. If you were “rad,” that ...

Most comments agree that the nickname isn’t used much among those born here, but is common elsewhere in the U.S. “Native ...

Language is evolving rapidly in a world of social media. Our millennial reviewer finds Adam Aleksic's Algospeak to be a ...

From Buenos Aires to Bangkok, Montreal to Moscow, nearly every taxi driver in the world understands "OK." It's a gift from ...