Dictionary.com has named “67” as its 2025 Word of the Year, calling it a reflection of Gen Alpha’s online slang and the growing blur between memes and language.
The term, pronounced “six-seven,” first surfaced in youth slang this year and is used loosely to mean “so-so” or “maybe this, maybe that,” according to the site’s lexicographers. Its roots are uncertain, some link it to rapper Skrilla’s 2024 track Doot Doot (6 7), while others cite basketball player LaMelo Ball’s height of six feet, seven inches.
Steve Johnson, Dictionary.com’s head of lexicography, described the expression as “part inside joke, part social signal, part performance.” It’s one of the first Words of the Year to function as an interjection, he said, embodying a feeling rather than a definition.
The shortlist also included “agentic,” “aura farming,” “Gen Z stare,” “overtourism,” “tariff,” and “tradwife.”
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