You can now look up skibidi, tradwife, and delulu in the Cambridge Dictionary.
Among the 6,000 or so words added to the dictionary over the past year, these internet neologisms have now asserted their place in the English language, whether you like it or not.
Most of these words are born from online culture and are popular among Gen Alpha—itself a new addition, referring to people born in the 2010s. If you haven’t spent a lot of time on TikTok, here’s a translation of some of the most chronically online language.
Skibidi, confusingly, can have a number of different meanings, such as “cool or bad,” or can be used “with no real meaning as a joke,” according to the dictionary.
The term was coined by the creator of Skibidi Toilet, a viral animated video series on YouTube (now being adapted