The increasing use of TikTok trends and social media terms in everyday conversation has forced the Cambridge Dictionary to throw up its hands and officially add “skibidi,” “delulu” and “tradwife” to its online edition. That’s right: the same book that once taught you the difference between “affect” and “effect” now has to explain “delulu with no solulu.” Welcome to English, 2025 edition.

What Does Skibidi Mean?

For anyone not terminally online, the dictionary’s example sentences read like word salad assembled by a teenager with unlimited Wi-Fi. Take gems such as, “That wasn’t very skibidi rizz of you” or, “As Gen Z say, I’ve entered my delulu era.” Translation: If it’s too loud, or in this case, makes no freakin’ sense, you are officially too old for this party.

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