The Word of 2025 couldn't make me feel less cool or excluded. But that's the point

When the proclaimed “Word of the Year” is not actually a word, and no-one knows precisely what it means, it is probably safe to say that we have reached peak cultural absurdity.

The website dictionary.com is not exactly the Oxford English Dictionary, but it is a valuable monitor of linguistic trends , and every year it chooses a word that, it says, “captures pivotal moments in language and culture”. And for 2025, it has selected as its epochal word “67” (pronounced “six-seven”).

I know. Me neither. Essentially, it’s an internet meme that has made it into Gen Alpha lexicon, and it doesn’t strictly matter what it means, or what we – on the outside – think it means. The most popularly accepted definition, given that the incantation of “6,7” must be accompanied by having both hands outstre