But sometimes they get so popular that they jump beyond their original user group. Usually, slang terms from very specific cohorts like gamers don’t make the Top-10 list. “Poggers”, “Pog” or “Pog Champ” is the 4 th new word on this years’ list. While it originally referred only to males, we’ve also seen it being used across genders lately. Most often a male who wants to impress a woman, or women in general, and therefore does anything for them, putting anything else second. A “Simp” is someone who is subservient to someone else. The next new word to our Top-10 list this year is “Simp”. “That’s Suspicious” or ”you’re so Suspicious”. The word itself means ‘Suspect’ or ‘Suspicious’ as in “That’s Sus” or “you’re so sus” i.e.
This is also one of those words that while used and understood relatively widely, does seem to be a bit less popular in the North East for some reason. “Sus” was not a brand new word like “Rona”, but it was new to our top 10 list.
DICTIONARY OF SLANG TERMS PLUS
Most people are careful with what they say about COVID, as it is of course a serious issue we’re all still facing, but “COVID-19” sounds way too formal for use in everyday speak with friends, plus a little humor is good medicine. In 1st place, we had “ Rona” or “Vid”, “as in “The Rona” or “The Vid” which you’ve probably guessed refers to COVID-19. I’ll share a definition for all Top-10 terms below, however, I’ll start with the four brand new terms to the list this year. “Yeet” beat out “Lit” in 2019, and would have remained in first place if we discounted the unique circumstances which brought “Rona/Vid” to the top this year. So without further ado, here is this year’s Top -10, as well as the historic top 10. Since I started blogging about my list annually it’s become one of our most popular blog posts of the year. We are able to use these terms in a few different ways, including determining likely age and gender of the person using the word. This may sound easy based on the context of the sentence they are used, but slang terms often change in meaning over time and are used differently geographically as well. For this reason, I began keeping track of various slang terms and their relative popularity, noting the appearance of any new ones, and figuring out what they mean. While the OdinAnswers Platform is smart enough to guess correctly (using machine learning) what part of speech any of these non-dictionary terms are likely to be part of, identifying the specific meaning of these brand and often changing terms can be more challenging. Naturally, slang often appears in social media comments, but can even make their way into surveys, customer reviews and other feedback data.
DICTIONARY OF SLANG TERMS SOFTWARE
Our software is unique in that it is not only able to identify words present in dictionaries, but also automatically finds hitherto unknown terms including new brand and product names, business-specific lingo, acronyms, and even slang. While many of these are numeric data such as sales, returns, clicks, views and likes, another critical part of these data are not numbers, but human commentary. For example: “That’s the best ice cream, periodt.Each year OdinAnswers processes billions of data points. Periodt - End of statement emphasizer.Noob/n00b - A person who doesn't know what they're doing or who is bad at something in other words, a newbie.
(For example, saying, "What a Karen," about someone who returns their drink at a restaurant for not having enough ice.) A Karen - A disparaging way to describe a petty middle-aged woman, who is rude, especially to people who work in the service industry.Emo - Someone who is emotional or a drama queen.Curve - To reject someone romantically (related to "ghosting").Bruh - Bro or dude (all three terms are gender-neutral).BF/GF - Boyfriend or girlfriend (used when texting, not in conversation).Bae - "Before anyone else," babe, or baby is used to describe a romantic partner or good friend.