Rizz. Ate. Skibidi. Love it or hate it, few linguistic topics are as polarizing as slang. Beloved by youth culture and loathed by purists, the more widely used a slang term becomes, the more likely it is to irk the general population. Some phrases are loathed simply from overuse, while others are cringe-inducing by their very nature, like the aforementioned skibidi, which, believe it or not, was added to the Cambridge Dictionary in August 2025.
