Overview

• The Cambridge Dictionary’s online edition added roughly 6,000 new entries in August 2025 to capture emerging usage
• Social-media slang such as 'skibidi', popularized by a viral YouTube series and celebrity mentions, and 'delulu', which migrated from fandom slang into political rhetoric, are now official entries
• Cultural signifiers including 'tradwife', a term for social-media influencers promoting conventional homemaking, and 'broligarchy', describing wealthy tech-industry elites, have been recognized in the lexicon
• New practical expressions like 'mouse jiggler', referring to software that simulates activity for remote workers, and 'forever chemical', highlighting persistent environmental pollutants, underscore real-world changes
• Lexicographers say the Cambridge English Corpus guided selections based on frequency, context and evidence of lasting usage, and the update has drawn both praise and skepticism