The word's proliferation online, in part thanks to the widespread availability of generative AI, landed it Merriam-Webster's ...

In a year dominated by the booming AI industry and an overwhelming flood of digital creations, Merriam-Webster has crowned "slop" as its 2025 Word of the Year. This four-letter word acts as a judgment ...

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

"Slop" is Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year for 2025, meaning more people than ever need to "touch grass," which, as it ...

Slop is defined as “digital content of low quality that is produced usually in quantity by means of artificial intelligence," Merriam-Webster said.

In the announcement, Merriam-Webster said that the word slop originated in the 1700s to mean "soft mud" before the meaning ...

Creepy, zany and demonstrably fake content is often called “slop.” The word's proliferation online, in part thanks to the ...