There was a time when Urban Dictionary felt essential. Twenty-six years ago, when then-college freshman Aaron Peckham founded ...

"Slop," which refers to creepy, zany and demonstrably fake content, has landed the title of Merriam-Webster's 2025 word of ...

After a full year of hectic news, trends and non-stop content, Merriam-Webster has summed it all perfectly in one word.

The word describes the onslaught of "digital content of low quality that is produced usually in quantity by means of ...

This linguistic shift reflects growing concerns about artificial intelligence’s impact on digital content quality and ...

In the announcement, Merriam-Webster said that the word slop originated in the 1700s to mean "soft mud" before the meaning ...

Creepy, zany and demonstrably fake content is often called “slop.” The word’s proliferation online, in part thanks to the ...

"Gerrymander," "performative" and "touch grass" were also popular words users of the dictionary looked up in the past year.

Merriam-Webster is the latest in a string of dictionaries to choose words of the year based on our relationship with technology and artificial intelligence.

The dictionary publisher's annual pick, based on spikes in search data, reflects the themes and anxieties that shaped 2025.