The word describes the onslaught of "digital content of low quality that is produced usually in quantity by means of ...

Merriam-Webster, the US publisher of some of the world’s best-known encyclopedias, has named “ slop ” the word of the year for 2025.

It's messy, it's meaningless and it's everywhere: "slop" has been crowned as Merriam-Webster's 2025 Word of the Year.The ...

Merriam-Webster is the latest in a string of dictionaries to choose words of the year based on our relationship with ...

Merriam-Webster’s word of the year tends to say a lot about the past 12 months — and how ready we as a society are to give up ...

The dictionary has selected one word every year since 2003 to capture and make sense of the current moment. Here’s ...

After a full year of hectic news, trends and non-stop content, Merriam-Webster has summed it all perfectly in one word.

All that stuff dumped on our screens, captured in just four letters: the English language came through again,” the company ...

"Slop," which refers to creepy, zany and demonstrably fake content, has landed the title of Merriam-Webster's 2025 word of ...

The dictionary publisher's annual pick, based on spikes in search data, reflects the themes and anxieties that shaped 2025.

Merriam-Webster has settled on a word that represents 2025 — and that word is “slop.” The dictionary-maker defines “slop” as ...