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Internet Slang Dictionary

48 terms, each with a definition, a researched origin and a decoder you can paste your own messages into.

In plain English

ngl that [AI or robot] took my job, the [cool points] was [mediocre] and I'm [done for]

Terms found

  • Clanker — A derogatory word for a robot or an AI system, borrowed from Star Wars and aimed at real machines.
  • Aura points — An imaginary score for how much presence you have, gained by looking effortless and lost by embarrassment.
  • Mid — Mediocre — not bad enough to be interesting, just distinctly average, and meant as a dismissal.
  • Cooked — Finished, beyond saving — about a person, a plan or a situation that has gone badly and irreversibly wrong.

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Every entry says where the word actually came from and cites the source, rather than repeating whatever the last listicle asserted. Where an origin cannot be pinned down, the entry says so instead of inventing a story.

Most looked up

  • 6 7 meaning

    A deliberately meaningless chant, roughly "so-so" or "maybe this, maybe that", usually shouted with both palms up.

  • Italian brainrot meaning

    A genre of AI-generated absurd characters with mock-Italian names, spread through short-form video since early 2025.

  • Rizz meaning

    Charm or flirting ability — the knack for attracting someone romantically through the way you talk.

  • Clanker meaning

    A derogatory word for a robot or an AI system, borrowed from Star Wars and aimed at real machines.

  • Gyatt meaning

    A shouted exclamation of surprise or admiration, functioning as a softened spelling of "goddamn".

  • Skibidi meaning

    A nonsense word that can mean cool, bad, or nothing at all, depending entirely on the tone it is said in.

  • Aura farming meaning

    Doing ordinary things with deliberate, effortless-looking cool in order to build up an air of charisma.

  • Delulu meaning

    Delusional, but said affectionately — believing something unrealistic because you have chosen to.

All 48 terms

Gen Alpha and brainrot (10)

Deliberately absurd terms that spread through short-form video, mostly among under-16s. Several carry no stable meaning at all, which is exactly why they are so hard to look up.

  • 6 7 meaning

    A deliberately meaningless chant, roughly "so-so" or "maybe this, maybe that", usually shouted with both palms up.

  • Italian brainrot meaning

    A genre of AI-generated absurd characters with mock-Italian names, spread through short-form video since early 2025.

  • Skibidi meaning

    A nonsense word that can mean cool, bad, or nothing at all, depending entirely on the tone it is said in.

  • Tralalero Tralala meaning

    The three-legged shark in Nike trainers, generally treated as the first Italian brainrot character.

  • Tung Tung Tung Sahur meaning

    A wooden creature named after the Indonesian drumbeat that wakes people for the pre-dawn Ramadan meal.

  • Ballerina Cappuccina meaning

    The ballerina with a cappuccino cup for a head, one of the most shared Italian brainrot characters.

  • Chicken jockey meaning

    A Minecraft creature, and the line from the 2025 film that made cinema audiences erupt on cue.

  • Fanum tax meaning

    Taking a portion of a friend's food as though it were owed to you, named after a streamer who did exactly that.

  • NPC meaning

    Someone acting like a background character — going through the motions with no apparent independent thought.

  • Ohio meaning

    Used as an adjective for anything weird, cursed or going badly wrong, with no reference to the actual state.

Gen Z core vocabulary (24)

The durable layer. These have survived several years of platform churn and now turn up in ordinary conversation, advertising and headlines without needing explanation.

  • Rizz meaning

    Charm or flirting ability — the knack for attracting someone romantically through the way you talk.

  • Gyatt meaning

    A shouted exclamation of surprise or admiration, functioning as a softened spelling of "goddamn".

  • Delulu meaning

    Delusional, but said affectionately — believing something unrealistic because you have chosen to.

  • Sigma meaning

    Someone successful and self-reliant who ignores the social hierarchy — now used far more often as a joke than sincerely.

  • PMO meaning

    An abbreviation with two common readings — "put me on", meaning include me, or "pisses me off".

  • No cap meaning

    No exaggeration, I am telling the truth — and "cap" on its own means a lie or a boast.

  • Simp meaning

    Someone who directs excessive attention or favours at a person who does not return the interest.

  • Based meaning

    Admirably willing to say what you actually think, regardless of whether the opinion is popular.

  • Bussin meaning

    Extremely good — almost always about food, and strongest when the food is unexpectedly good.

  • Canon event meaning

    An unavoidable bad experience you have to go through, because it is part of becoming who you are.

  • Cooked meaning

    Finished, beyond saving — about a person, a plan or a situation that has gone badly and irreversibly wrong.

  • Drip meaning

    Noticeably good style — clothes and accessories that clearly took thought, money, or both.

  • The ick meaning

    A sudden, usually permanent turn of feeling against someone you were attracted to, over something trivial.

  • Opp meaning

    An enemy or rival — someone you are actively on bad terms with, most often used in the plural.

  • Pookie meaning

    A term of endearment, used for partners and friends alike, and often deliberately over-the-top.

  • Slay meaning

    To do something exceptionally well, especially an appearance or a performance that looks effortless.

  • Sus meaning

    Suspicious or not quite right — used about a person, a story, a link, a price or a whole situation.

  • Beige flag meaning

    A harmless quirk in a partner that is neither a warning sign nor a virtue, just distinctly odd.

  • Bet meaning

    Agreed, or understood — a one-word yes that becomes a challenge when the tone shifts.

  • Mid meaning

    Mediocre — not bad enough to be interesting, just distinctly average, and meant as a dismissal.

  • Unc meaning

    Short for uncle, aimed at anyone acting older than they are — affectionately, or not, depending on tone.

  • Zesty meaning

    Flamboyant or theatrical in a way that draws comment, most often said about men and their mannerisms.

  • It's giving meaning

    It has the energy of — a way of naming the impression something projects without describing it literally.

  • Touch grass meaning

    Go outside and get some perspective — said to someone who has been arguing online for far too long.

Rising through 2025-26 (14)

Newer arrivals still gaining ground. Meanings here are the least settled, so each entry states how firm the evidence for its origin actually is.

  • Clanker meaning

    A derogatory word for a robot or an AI system, borrowed from Star Wars and aimed at real machines.

  • Aura farming meaning

    Doing ordinary things with deliberate, effortless-looking cool in order to build up an air of charisma.

  • Mewing meaning

    Pressing the tongue to the roof of the mouth to sharpen the jawline — now mostly a joke about refusing to speak.

  • Crash out meaning

    To lose control completely — a public meltdown, or the moment you stop holding yourself together.

  • Glazing meaning

    Praising someone so excessively that it becomes embarrassing to watch, and usually reads as insincere.

  • Huzz meaning

    A euphemistic respelling used to refer to women collectively, popularised by streamers and widely criticised.

  • Looksmaxxing meaning

    Systematically working on your appearance, from ordinary grooming through to cosmetic procedures.

  • Aura points meaning

    An imaginary score for how much presence you have, gained by looking effortless and lost by embarrassment.

  • Yapping meaning

    Talking far too much and at length about something nobody else needed to hear a word about.

  • Gen Z stare meaning

    The blank, unblinking look young people are accused of giving when a reply was clearly expected.

  • Lock in meaning

    To get seriously focused and shut everything else out until the thing in front of you is done.

  • Rage bait meaning

    Content deliberately designed to make you angry enough to respond, because the outrage is what pays.

  • Standing on business meaning

    Following through on what you said you would do, and holding your ground when it starts to cost you.

  • Chat is this real meaning

    A sarcastic way of asking whether something is genuine, aimed at content that obviously is not.

How this dictionary is put together

Slang lists go stale fast, and most of them go stale invisibly — a term dies and the page stays up claiming it is current. Each entry here records when it was last reviewed, whether the term is still in active use, and how confident the origin is.

Entries that cannot clear the quality floor are not published. That floor is checked automatically when the site is built: an entry needs a real definition, at least three usage examples tied to a place and a year, a cited origin, and a working decoder — or the build fails and the page never ships. Some words have been left out entirely, either because their origins could not be established honestly or because their subject matter was not something worth building a page around.