Springfield-based dictionary company Merriam-Webster has announced that “Slop” is the Word of the Year for 2025.

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

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

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Webster’s 2025 word of the year is “slop.” The word was first used in the 1700s to mean soft mud. It evolved more generally ...

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A growing surge of fake or weird content online often called ‘slop’ has been named Word of the Year 2025. The Merriam-Webster ...

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In a move likely unsurprising to regular readers of this fine publication, Merriam-Webster's word of the year is 'Slop' (via ...

Merriam-Webster has chosen "slop" as its buzzword for the year. The US dictionary publisher says the word reflects a growing ...

Oxford Dictionary went with “rage bait” as its ‘word of the year’ – a term that describes deliberately divisive content. Meanwhile Collins Dictionary’s pick was “vibe coding”, a term coined by AI ...