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

“Like slime, sludge, and muck, slop has the wet sound of something you don’t want to touch. Slop oozes into everything,” the ...

Merriam-Webster has settled on a word that represents 2025 — and that word is “slop.” The dictionary-maker defines “slop” as ...

To select its Word of the Year, Merriam-Webster’s editors review data on which words rose in search volume and usage, then ...

In a year dominated by the booming AI industry and an overwhelming flood of digital creations, Merriam-Webster has crowned ...

Merriam-Webster’s word of the year tends to say a lot about the past 12 months — and how ready we as a society are to give up ...

Merriam-Webster has officially crowned ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year. The term, which originally referred to soft mud ...

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

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

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 last year.

Sometimes, the Merriam-Webster word of the year is predictable. And 2025 was one of those years.