A Guide to Cool Kid Slang in 2025

If you’ve accidentally scrolled into the weird corners of TikTok or caught bits of kids’ convos, you know firsthand: Younger gens use some strange slang. You aren’t old or out of the loop. Kids are just, ahem, creative with their lingo—and forever enterprising when it comes to taking seemingly meaningless words and adopting new meanings to suit them. 

But news flash: Slang—aka informal, ever-shifting vocab full of arbitrarily repurposed terms and over-the-top, forced or facetious figures of speech—is nothing new (looking at you: “da bomb” and “fly”). Only now, social media fuels a rapid lexicon remix—making today’s viral phrases feel obsolete in just a few scrolls. 

Questionable? Maybe. But slang is still a mirror of our culture—and it’s shaping the next gen in real time. Here’s what viral phrases dominated online culture this year and what they mean, according to Unscramblerer. Use wisely.