Meaning

Someone who tears up during the wedding scene, believes in soulmates, and still writes love letters in a world of text messages  that's the classic picture of a hopeless romantic.…

In feudal Japan, not every samurai answered to the same lord in the same way. The hatamoto meaning points to a specific, privileged rank: a samurai who served the shogun…

Scroll through TikTok comments or a group chat for long enough, and you'll eventually run into "pmo." The PMO meaning you'll encounter most often online is "pisses me off"  a…

A boss who changes the rules on a whim. Weather that swings from sunshine to storm in an hour. A friend whose mood you can never quite predict. All of…

You've almost certainly felt it, even if you never knew the word for it: that small flicker of satisfaction when a rude driver gets pulled over, or a rival team…

If someone says they'll be back "in a trice," they mean they'll be back almost instantly, no long wait involved. The trice meaning is simple: a trice is a very…

If a friend texts you "dw, I got it," you don't need to worry  that's literally what the abbreviation says. The DW meaning you'll run into most often is "don't…

If you've heard someone call a project or prize a "golden fleece," you're hearing an echo of one of the oldest adventure stories in Western literature. The golden fleece meaning…

If you've seen CTFU pop up in a text, a tweet, or under a funny video and had no idea what it meant, you're not alone. CTFU is internet slang…