Overview

• The online edition added more than 6,000 words and phrases over the past year, with many drawn from TikTok and YouTube vernacular used by Gen Z and Gen Alpha.
• Skibidi is defined as a flexible nonsense term that can mean cool or bad or serve as a joke with no fixed meaning; delulu is shorthand for believing things that are not real or true; tradwife refers to a stay-at-home wife, especially one who posts about the lifestyle on social media.
• Other entries capture shifting work and environmental concerns, including mouse jiggler, work spouse, lewk, inspo, broligarchy, and forever chemical.
• Cambridge says lexicographers rely on usage data from its multi-billion-word Cambridge English Corpus and include terms only when they judge they have staying power, according to lexical programme manager Colin McIntosh.
• Coverage also notes evolving senses such as snackable, red flag, and green flag, alongside visible social-media backlash and bewilderment at entries like skibidi.