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

Merriam-Webster’s 2025 word of the year is “slop.” The word was first used in the 1700s to mean soft mud. It evolved more ...

Runners up included "gerrymander," "touch grass," "performative" and "tariff." ...

Merriam-Webster has one word for 2025: “slop.” The American dictionary defines slop as “digital content of low quality that ...

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

Springfield-based dictionary company Merriam-Webster has announced that “Slop” is the Word of the Year for 2025.

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

The newest definition of "slop" is described as "absurd videos, off-kilter advertising images, cheesy propaganda, fake news ...

The word "slop" was first used to refer to soft mud in the 1700s, but has since evolved to mean of little value — especially when referring to online content of low quality that's made with artificial ...

Merriam-Webster has revealed “Slop” as its Word of the Year for 2025, highlighting a term that surged in usage online over ...