Overview

• Many additions trace to TikTok, YouTube and online communities, bringing internet-born slang such as skibidi, delulu, tradwife and broligarchy into the reference record.
• Lexical program manager Colin McIntosh says the team prioritizes words with proven staying power based on frequency and distribution across contexts.
• The update also covers non-slang terms tied to work, technology and the environment, including mouse jiggler, forever chemical, technofossil and digital decay.
• The 6,212 entries were added over the past year, signaling how digital-era usage now features in a widely used learner’s dictionary.
• Reaction ranges from purist criticism to support for descriptive documentation, and delulu has already appeared in political discourse via Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.