If you feel like you’re drowning in neologisms lately, you’re not delulu.
The uptick in coinages has been noted by culture writers and TikTok users alike.
There’s even a meme for slang overload, though it has been around since 2020.
Girl dinner, an informal phrase credited to the TikTok user Olivia Maher that describes a light, charcuterie board-like meal, was inducted as an entry on Dictionary.com this month.
It joins other newly inducted informal nouns and slang terms — including bussin’, the ick and pretty privilege — whose rise has been driven at least in part by social media.
Persons:
you’re, —, Olivia Maher, bussin ’, Grant Barrett, Dictionary.com
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