(NEXSTAR) — It's an announcement many of us saw coming, one we warned about late last month. You could say the writing was on the wall six, seven weeks ago.

The slang that has found its way into nearly every conversation, every exchange of words, every response to any question in which children as young as elementary age are involved, has been declared the word of 2025 by Dictionary.com: "6-7."

"The Word of the Year isn’t just about popular usage; it reveals the stories we tell about ourselves and how we’ve changed over the year," the online wordbook explained in a Wednesday press release. "And for these reasons, Dictionary.com’s 2025 Word of the Year is 67."

What does '6-7' mean?

It's not pronounced as sixty-seven, but rather six-seven. If you've spent any time around children or even

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