It's messy, it's meaningless and it's everywhere: "slop" has been crowned as Merriam-Webster's 2025 Word of the Year.

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

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

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

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

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

Slop” is the new Merriam-Webster word of the year, thanks to the flood of low-quality artificial intelligence images and ...

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 ...

After a year filled with news about artificial intelligence, the transformation of pop culture and more, Merriam-Webster has ...

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