"Gerrymander," "performative" and "touch grass" were also popular words users of the dictionary looked up in the last year.

After a year filled with news about artificial intelligence, the transformation of pop culture and more, Merriam-Webster has ...

“Like slime, sludge, and muck, slop has the wet sound of something you don’t want to touch. Slop oozes into everything,” the ...

In a year dominated by the booming AI industry and an overwhelming flood of digital creations, Merriam-Webster has crowned "slop" as its 2025 Word of the Year. This four-letter word acts as a judgment ...

Slop is defined as “digital content of low quality that is produced usually in quantity by means of artificial intelligence," Merriam-Webster said.

Merriam-Webster chose “slop” for 2025 word of the year, citing the rise of low-quality AI-generated content and ...

Creepy, zany and demonstrably fake content is often called “slop.” The word’s proliferation online, in part thanks to the ...