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All the Internet Words We Added to Our Dictionaries in 2024
The year English went full brain rot.
“When it’s treated as a meme, when it’s obtrusive, when it doesn’t fill a gap, then we use the slang word and just discard it,” he says, which is why the internet’s tendency to broadly adopt speech that originated within Black communities can be so harmful. Originally a term for spoiled child, now an adult 365 party girl who revels in mess to distract herself from life’s tough questions. Originally meaning to “move away” or “decamp,” the word is more modernly used to describe the act of dominating or triumphing over someone physically, intellectually, or aesthetically.
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