Cambridge Dictionary’s latest additions include ‘skibidi,’ ‘tradwife’ and ‘delulu’

The increasing use of TikTok trends and social media terms in everyday conversation has led Cambridge Dictionary to include “ skibidi ,” “delulu” and “ tradwife ” in the 6,000 new words it has added to its online edition over the past year.

To those of us who spend less time online, some of the phrases the UK-based dictionary uses to show how these new words fit into sentences may look like gibberish. How exactly do you describe the precise meaning of “that wasn’t very skibidi rizz of you” or “As Gen Z say, I’ve entered my ‘delulu era?’”

Well, the Cambridge Dictionary defines skibidi as “a word that can have different meanings such as ‘cool’ or ‘bad,’ or can be used with no real meaning as a joke” and delulu as a “play on the word delusional, means ‘believing things that