A Parents guide to decoding the lingo your kids use in texts, on TikTok, and IRL. Fact checked by Elizabeth Brownfield Teens ...

Etymology Nerd Adam Aleksic says that teens use slang as a way to build identity. (Photo illustration: Victoria Ellis/Yahoo News; photo: Alefiyah Gandhi) In his videos, Aleksic speaks in an ...

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Kids born between 2010 and 2024 have adapted a dialect all their own. When Natalie Boe listens to her two young sons talk with each other and their friends, she said it can be like listening to a ...

“Mother” means awesome, beautiful, cool, loving, protective — but another timeless definition is orbiting. “Since the mid-20th century, mother has been used to refer to a feminine queer person who is ...

(WSYR-TV) — If you’ve been on TikTok, Instagram or X, you might have come across the terms “Rizz,” “Coquette” and “Pookie” and thought, “What does that even mean?” On TikTok, a favorite among US teens ...

Warning: This article contains slang words which have meanings that may disturb some readers. Discretion is advised. There seems to be a new slang word every other day, and many around the nation ...

Gen Xers were born between 1965 and 1980, which puts them between the ages of 44 and 59 years old. Before they became parents and corporate employees and silver foxes, they were punks and skaters, ...