If adorbs and fave are part of your everyday vocabulary, you now have official permission to use them Slang is ...

The slang appeal, which launched around the start of the school year, has so far yielded more than 745 submissions, including terms such as snatched and lowkey.The latter, which appears ...

LASSITER: As you may have recognized from the start of the episode, tons of American slang comes from within American culture. Drip, bussin’, fly, clutch, chill, groovy, hip, and outta sight. But some ...

More than 80% of Americans use slang words, but half admit to using slang even when we don't know what it means. Our most used slang word: ghosted.

Words sometimes have two meanings, as Led Zeppelin sang in “Stairway to Heaven.” And indeed they often do. Especially, words can acquire new meanings and lose old ones. For example ...

Though the English language has many quirks, one of its most interesting is homographs: words that are spelled identically but have different meanings or definitions.; There are at least 10 words ...

The English language is chock-a-block with words and idioms deriving from life at sea. Don't believe me? I've italicized every phrase in this article that originated among sailors.

Lucy Bella Earl, 25, from Hertfordshire, runs the 'English with Lucy' YouTube channel. She revealed the difference in slang words in British, American and Australian English.

Many Australian slang words are shortened by placing an 'o' at the end of the word and dropping off the last few letters. 'Devastated', or to feel an overwhelming shock or grief becomes 'devo'.