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What was once another shortened way to call a friend "brother," the word "bruh" is now being used widely, especially by Gen ...

Niall Horan is a proud Irishman who is more than happy to break down the country's slang for his American friends. The Voice ...

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The paper details how four leading AI models—GPT-4, Claude, Gemini, and Llama 3—all struggled to fully understand slang from Gen Alpha, defined as those born between 2010 and 2024.

Explore 2025's viral internet slang, from aura farming to Fanum tax. Here's what these terms mean, how they’re evolving, and why they’re so popular.

In fact, TikToker and teen slang guru Mr. Lindsay says, “You’re gonna hear it a lot more in the next two weeks.” The best way to stop your teens use of the term is to start using it yourself.

On top of that was the fear of attacks by foreign nationals or American citizens inspired to strike the U.S. In 2018, the National Counterterrorism Center issued a report saying Iran-sponsored or ...

Almost a whole page of the Dictionary of American Regional English is dedicated to "wampus," a Southern term for a variety of real creatures, such as a wild horse, and imagined ones, such as swamp ...