These are 14 terms, from TikTok slang to rising trends, you might hear your Gen Z coworker using in 2025.

There’s enough slang within the English language to make up a whole new language. If you need to do some research for an English assignment, or you’re just into linguistics, this online dictionary is ...

Other languages have words that mean false, tacky, or trying too hard, but only the English slang term “cheesy” can fully express something so fake that it stinks like Camembert: “He came up to me at ...

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 ...

Definition: "Clock it" is used as validation, given to someone who is sharing new information or gossip. The phrase is used ...

Foreign students are learning our language from internationally broadcast US series such as Friends, pictured - CHANNEL 4 Foreign students learning English are now being taught modern phrases and ...

Getting older comes with a lot of side effects from going to bed before 10 p.m. to not being hip (see below) to words kids and teens are using these days. The days of "TBH" (to be honest) and "OMG" ...

1."The majority of students cannot read at grade level. Anyone who disagrees with a teacher teaching appropriate grammar is part of the problem." 5."A teacher should NEVER punish behavior with writing ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link The English language is, indeed, a quirky one: it's notoriously difficult to learn, and often words have more than one meaning. Some of these ...