Skibidi, broligarchy, inspo, delulu, and several other trendy terms have been formally welcomed into the Cambridge Dictionary as part of its 2025 collection of new words.
Among the dictionary’s newest entries—which you can now look up and define yourself—are words that have buzzed through online, digitally native communities over the past year or so. They’re the kind of vocabulary you might encounter scrolling through social platforms like TikTok or Instagram. While their popularity often traces back to Gen Z and Gen Alpha, many have already crossed into everyday conversation.
For starters, you can now rest assured that “skibidi”—an oddball term born from YouTuber DaFuq!?Boom!’s Skibidi Toilet creation—is officially documented and defined by the Cambridge Dictionary. As one of over 6,000 new additions in the last year, it’s described as “a word that can convey different meanings, such as ‘cool’ or ‘bad,’ or be used playfully with no fixed meaning.”
“Phrases like ‘What the skibidi are you doing?’ and ‘That wasn’t very skibidi rizz of you’ have entered mainstream usage,” Cambridge University noted today. “Last October, Kim Kardashian posted a social media video showing a necklace from her daughter engraved with the phrase ‘Skibidi Toilet’ as a birthday gift.”
Other notable inclusions are “broligarchy,” referring to influential groups of men and tech leaders—like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and Mark Zuckerberg—seeking political sway, and tradwife, an abbreviation for “traditional wife.” Additional shorthand terms gaining mainstream traction are “inspo” (for inspiration) and “delulu” (for delusional). Then there’s “lewk,” referring to someone’s distinct style or outfit.
“It’s not every day you see words like skibidi and delulu enter the Cambridge Dictionary,” said Colin McIntosh, Lexical Programme Manager at the Cambridge Dictionary. “We add terms only when we believe they’ll endure. Internet culture is reshaping the English language, and it’s fascinating to observe and record that evolution in the Dictionary.”
This batch of words may raise a few eyebrows, but each has undoubtedly fueled online dialogue for some time. As unusual as some may seem, this is hardly the first instance of internet slang finding a home in formal lexicons. “Isekai,” an anime genre where protagonists journey to unfamiliar worlds, was added to the Oxford English Dictionary last year. Terms like “emoji” and “clickbait” joined Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary in 2015.
To discover more about Skibidi Toilet, you can read about the untitled Skibidi Toilet project announced last year. What it will entail remains a mystery, though Transformers veteran Michael Bay is reportedly part of the production.
