The print edition of Merriam-Webster was once a touchstone of authority and stability. Then the internet brought about a ...

"Slop," which refers to creepy, zany and demonstrably fake content, has landed the title of Merriam-Webster's 2025 word of ...

During his remarks at a GOP event in January, President Trump rambled about his reckless tariffs. Trump stated, "That's the ...

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

There was a time when Urban Dictionary felt essential. Twenty-six years ago, when then-college freshman Aaron Peckham founded ...

The word describes the onslaught of "digital content of low quality that is produced usually in quantity by means of ...

This linguistic shift reflects growing concerns about artificial intelligence’s impact on digital content quality and ...

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 past year.

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