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Glossary of the Internet


​Adulting: To grow up and act responsible

AMA (Ask Me Anything): The AMA was first made popular on Reddit. Short for “Ask Me Anything,” an AMA is when someone, usually well-known or from an interesting background, goes online and answers questions posed by the community.

Askhole: Someone who is always asking ridiculous, obnoxious or irrelevant questions.

Avatar: An avatar is an image or username that represents a person online

Bae: Babe / Before Anyone Else: Stands for “before anyone else” or a shortening of “babe.”

Banksying: When you're going to break-up with someone and decide to plan an elaborate act far in advance. The breakup is calculated and perfectly timed out, rather than on a whim.

Beetweet: Slang term used to describe a "hot tweet." Usually this is a popular, trending topic on Twitter and many users will retweet a beetweet.

Benching: Usually happens right before the coming of a DTR (define the relationship). It’s when a person puts someone they are dating on the sidelines instead of breaking up with them. They may or may not come back.

Bird Boxed: : An online dating expression that describes being blind to just how bad your partner is. It can also refer to ignoring someone or pretending you don't see someone who is trying to get your attention.

Bit Bucket: The fictitious place in cyberspace where missing documents or files are said to end up. If someone says they sent you an e-mail message and you find that you never got it (and no error message was generated) it means that the message went to the bit bucket and will never be found again.

Blamestorming: A term used in the modern workplace to describe sitting around in a group discussing why a deadline was missed or a project failed and who is responsible.

Bot: An account run by an automated program. You can find good bots, such as the ones that pull in all breaking news. But you also can find bad bots, which put out only generic tweets, usually filled with links to Internet marketing sites or porn. You can spot these bots by a generic “hot chick” avatar or their uneven follower/following ratio.

Breadcrumbing: The act of leading someone on a trail with flirtatious messages but never following through with them.

Bonk: It used to mean to have sex or hook up in generation x lingo, but in generation y slang it means you're tired, or exhausted.

Bulltwit: Slang term to describe fake, false or over embellished Tweets.

Buzzerflies: The feeling you get when your phone buzzes and it could possibly be the special someone you’ve been waiting to hear from all day.

Bye Felicia: If someone is leaving an online chat or board and you really don’t care, you dismiss them with "bye, Felicia.” It’s a "dis" that only works if the person you’re trying to insult isn’t named Felicia.

Caking: It means flirting either on the phone or in person. The act of flirting with cake on it (not literally). Caking is when you’re extra sweet to someone you’re really interested in. You text them sweet nothings, and your attention is undivided. For example, "We caked all weekend, it was awesome."

Canceled: To reject something because it’s no longer trendy or it’s become too ratchet.

Caspering: A variation of ghosting but doing it nicely by letting people down gently before you ghost them. It's a play on words from Casper the friendly ghost.

Catch and Release: Similar to breadcrumbing. People who participate in all the steps of “catching” a date with someone but when it comes time to deliver, they “release” their prey and quickly retreat.

Catfish: Slang for pursuing romantic online relationships using a fake identity. Like being deceived on social media by someone who professes their romantic feelings to the victim, but isn't really who they say they are.

Clap back: A comeback filled with attitude

Clickbait: Content whose main purpose is to attract attention and encourage visitors to click on a link. Clickbait is usually a text or thumbnail link designed to entice users to click.

Cohabidating: When two people are newly dating and move in together. Young couples do it for financial reasons. In other words, it's two people who would rather save money and live together than wait longer to see if the relationship works.

Cougar: The nickname for an older woman who has a relationship with a younger man. Whether it's dating a bunch of younger guys or marrying a younger man, the term cougar refers specifically to a sexy, independent woman and the cougar movement is considered a phenomenon of women's liberation.

Crank tweet: Similar to a "crank phone call," it is a misleading tweet.

Cringe: Online content that is either embarrassing, awkward, or so upsetting it causes one to cringe. For example, "Did you see that video? It's extremely cringe."

Cuffing Season: People who are perfectly happy being single during the summer months suddenly decide to find a relationship when it gets cold. It’s more fun to stay in and cuddle than go out. When the snow comes people suddenly care about not being alone.

Curve: Slang for rejecting someone romantically.

Cushioning: It's when you're in a relationship with someone, but you still chat and flirt with other people on the side. It gives you a "cushion" of other options in case things don't work out with your current partner.

Cyberbullying: It is when a child, tween, or teen is tormented, threatened, harassed, humiliated, embarrassed or otherwise targeted by another person using technology. It is instigated by one minor against another minor; once adults become involved, it is cyberstalking or cyberharassment. Adult cyberharassment or cyberstalking is not called cyberbullying unless the bully was disguising him or herself as a teenager.

Cybercad: The electronic equivalent of a lounge lizard, one who hangs around cyberspace for extended periods of time.

Cyberchondriacs: Those who go online for health care information. Often times these people end up misdiagnosing their symptoms and causing themselves anxiety about it.

Cyberslacker: An employee who uses his or her company's Internet connection during work hours to surf the Net, shop, play games, check stock prices, send personal e-mail, look for a new job, and etc.

Dad: A role model

DAE: Does Anyone Else?: DAE is generally a prefix for a question, where the person asking wants to know if they are not alone in whatever they are experiencing.

Deep-Like: To deep-like is when someone interested in you goes through your social media and likes posts so old that even you forgot about them.

DM (Direct Message): A direct message, or DM, is a term used on Twitter for a private communication with someone. Each user has a “Messages” page where they can read and send direct messages to other users.

Don’t @ Me: When someone says “Don’t @ me” in a tweet, they’re indicating they don’t want to hear your opinions on what they’ve posted.

Draculaing: It's when people only hear from the people they are dating at night. The person only surfaces in the dead of night to hit you up with a 'you up?' text.

Dry Snitching : To snitch indirectly by talking in an excessively loud voice. For example, instead of telling on you outright, a dry snitcher in the workplace speaks loud enough so that your boss can hear what he or she was going to snitch and gets you in trouble anyway.

DTR: DTR stands for “define the relationship.” This conversation takes place between you and someone you’re dating to decide if you’re just friends with benefits, officially in a relationship, or ready to break up.

Dweet: A tweet sent while under the influence.

ELI5: Explain Like I’m 5: When someone gives a complex explanation for an event and you need them to dumb it down for you.

Ear Hustling: That gossipy, nosy co-worker who listens in on your phone calls and butts into your conversations. Prison jargon for eavesdropping without permission.

Egotwistical: Slang term used to describe a user who talks about himself on Twitter. It is a combination of the words "egotistical and Twitter."

Epic fail: When someone fails, usually due to an easily avoided mistake, people online call it an “epic fail.” We use the word “epic” to talk about anything huge or important.

Eavestweeting: The act of eavesdropping on other Twitter conversations.

Extra: Over the Top: When someone is trying too hard and simply over the top, you might refer to them as “extra.”

Facepalm: A gesture where you put the palm of your hand on your face. This is usually done in response to someone saying something very obvious or not very smart.

Fresh Fish: It's prison jargon for the recent college grad with no work experience.

FWB (friends with benefits): means friends who like to spend time together, aren’t officially in a relationship, and like to have casual sex here and there.

Facebook Official: When a romantic relationship has been declared on your Facebook relationship status. You can do this by linking your account to your partner’s in the relationship status section of your Facebook profile.

Flash Mob: flash mob is a large group of people who assemble suddenly in a public place, perform an unusual and pointless act for a brief time, then quickly disperse

FollowFriday (FF, or #followfriday): On Twitter, FollowFriday is a recommendation. It is used to call attention to a user's favorite followers and favorite people on Twitter

Friendscrapping: A slang term related to Twitter that refers to an individual adding all of a friend’s friends as his or her own

FTFY: Fixed That For You: When you say something that has an obvious unintentional mistake and another person on the internet corrects it for you, adding, “FTFY.”

Gaslighting: Slang for abusive behavior, specifically when an abuser manipulates information to the point of making their victim question his or her sanity. It's a form of persistent manipulation that causes the victim to experience self-doubt and lose their own sense of identity and self-worth. Gaslighting can occur in personal relationships, at the work, and even over an entire society.

Gassed Up: It refers to someone who is full of themselves.

Ghosting: Ghosting is when you’ve been engaging romantically online with someone but then they suddenly disappear and you never hear from them again.

GIF - GIF is an acronym for Graphics Interchange Format. In social media, GIFs serve as small-scale animations and film clips

Glow Up: To upgrade to a better version. It refers to a person who has suddenly become more attractive. This phrase usually has a picture next it: one of a person when they were younger, and one of how they look when they’re older.

Goals: A way of subtly expressing that you’re jealous

Going Down In the DMs: When two people began flirting through direct messages on a social media platform like Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook.

Grandeing: It's when a person is grateful for their past relationships and the things their former partners taught them through the relationship.

Hangry: A combination of hungry and angry, it's a portmanteau that means one is angry because they are hungry.

Haunting: When the person you broke up with keeps appearing all over your social media with the intentions of winning you back or staying in your life.

Headdesk: Supreme Frustration: Headdesk is the extreme facepalm. When someone says or does something monumentally idiotic, you hit your head on the desk to convey your utter loss of faith in humanity.

HIFW: How I Feel/Felt When: Typically, HIFW is paired with an image, video, or reaction GIF when words aren’t enough.

High-key: Straight up truth

Humble Brag: When you want to share how fantastic your life is but you don’t want to be that person who brags about how fantastic you are. It's a brag with a mild dose of modesty or even self-deprecation, so it seems like your intent wasn’t to gloat, even though it was. For example: “I have so much packing to do before my flight to Paris. Ugh, it's all too much.”

Hunty: Equivalent of friend but said with attitude

ICYMI (In Case You Missed It): ICYMI is just a precaution when you aren’t sure if other people already know about something, or when you are repeating something you have said before. It’s a way of saying, “You might have already seen this, but if not, here you go.”

IMO / IMHO: (In My Opinion / In My Humble Opinion) An internet classic, IMO is the safe way to express your opinions without making it sound like you are proclaiming a universal truth.

iPhony: Online lingo for when someone constantly tells you they will text you to organize a date, but they never do.

Influencer: Specific individuals who are active on social media sites and have "influence" over other users. Used for online marketing

Instagator: Using Instagram to make a relationship public or to push it along further. The person who initiates contact or first publicizes a relationship via social media will do so by tagging, DMing, or posting photos of the two of you.

Internesia: The inability to remember which website a piece of information came from or which bookmark might get you back there.

Intexticated: It refers to a person who is distracted by texting while he or she is driving.

Intwituation/intwituated: Slang terms used to describe a situation in which someone is infatuated with another Twitter user.

IRL (In real life): When you’re talking about something that exists offline, you can use IRL to mean “in real life.”

Mansplaining: Refers to when a man explains something to a woman in a condescending, overconfident, and often inaccurate or oversimplified manner.

Jitterati: A play on the term digiterati, this is what the digital generation becomes after drinking too much coffee.

JSYK (Just So You Know): The new FYI.

Junk Sleep: The act of dozing off while still connected to your electronic devices like the computer or television.

Kittenfish: It's like catfish, but not as drastic. Kittenfishing is when someone deceives to make someone else like them better. Like on an online dating app, a person will take a few years off their age, use an older picture, or change their height and weight.

Layby: a person who is still in a relationship but uses online dating apps to find a way out of their relationship without being caught single. They don’t want to risk being alone.

Lit: When something is turned up or popping.

Loser Error: A play on "user error," this refers to an error caused by a user who, in turn, blames it on the computer.

Low Key: Teen lingo for a warning that what someone is saying is private and isn’t what others should know.

Meme: Pictures, videos, links, and other content that spreads quickly from one person to another through the Internet. Memes can also refer to an idea, concept, phrase or any other piece of information that goes viral.

Mention: Used to name another user within your tweet by using the @ symbol with the other user’s username.

Mom: The most responsible friend in the group

Mommy-save: Slang for the act of clicking 'Save' without first choosing an appropriate folder to in which to store the document. Common among newbies (e.g., moms) who don't understand the concept of folders, directories, etc., as in "All of his papers and correspondence were mommy-saved in the MS Word folder."

Netflix and Chill: Netflix and chill does not mean get together and watch a movie. It means get together, turn on Netflix (maybe), and get it on.

Nomophobia: The fear of being without your mobile device or being unable to use your smartphone due to a low battery or a poor signal. It's an irrational fear so it's a phobia.

Ohnosecond: The fraction of time it takes to realize you've just goofed; for example, right after you hit the send button on an e-mail and realize you forgot to include the attachment. Another example is that moment of horror when you see the key in the ignition switch just as you're slamming the car door shut.

On Ice: When you decide to pause the pace of a relationship and chill out for minute. It's usually when you both decide to take a break.

On the Team: A dating candidate squad. It’s advice for single people to have three strong dating candidates in rotation until you decide, or you both decide, to officially come off the market.

On Velvet: Slang for "sitting pretty," it means things are going very well.

Peeped: To look at something, often slyly, or to hint at something.

Phone Face: Lingo for when someone is staring at their smartphone. It can also refer to when you're lying on your back, looking at your device, and you drop your smartphone on your face.

Phubbing; Snubbing someone to pay attention to your phone instead

Ratchet: Trashy

Receipts: Evidence of a person’s hypocrisy, often pulled from past social media or text conversations.

Reintarnation: Slang for getting reincarnated as a hillbilly.

Ringxiety: A phenomenon reported by cell phone addicts and BlackBerry junkies of feeling vibrations when there are none, or feeling as if they're wearing a cell phone when they're not.

Romanceting: It involves texting words and/or images, but instead of demanding sex, you express appreciation and admiration.

RT (ReTweet): RT means that the tweet you're looking at was forwarded to you by another user.

Salty: To be in a bad or grumpy mood or to be exceptionally annoyed or bitter.

Send Storm: A deluge of private chat or IM messages while one is trying to do something else online.

Shareware Girl: Office lingo for the coolest girl in the IT department. Unlike booth bunnies, shareware girls are smart and they work in the industry (despite the implication, there is no sexual overtone).

Shipping: Wanting two people to date

Shook: A reaction to someone doing something shocking. It can be used seriously or jokingly depending on the context. For example, "They got back together again. I’m shook.”

Side Hustle: Refers to something one does in spare time to earn extra money, besides their full-time job.

Sip Tea: Teen lingo for mind your own business.

Situationship: The new way of saying "it's complicated.” It’s when you're not in a committed relationship but you can’t exactly say you’re single either.

Skurt: Teen lingo for going away or leaving.

Slay: Killing it / Succeeding

Sleep Camels: Ultraworkaholics who go for days on end and then power-sleep most of the weekend in an attempt to store up rest for the week ahead.

Sliding into My DMs Like: You’re casually engaging on social media (Twitter) when suddenly you get a flirtatious direct message (DM) from a stranger. You can say they “slid into your DMs like” because they moved a romantic conversation from a public forum to yourprivate forum.

Slow Fade: The slow fade is slightly similar to benching or ghosting. When someone slow fades a partner, they just dramatically reduce the amount of communications they send until they eventually disappear.

Smash: Teen lingo for have sex.

Snack: Slang for a very attractive person, usually a female.

Snap trap: A tactic used to find out what your SO is up to online. NIf you’ve sent text messages and they don’t reply, you Snapchat them and if he or she opens it, then they fell for your snap trap. The same thing can happen on WhatsApp because you can see if they viewed your message.

SO stalemate (Significant Other Stalemate) In a relationship, it's when neither party will start the DTD (define-the-relationship) conversation, leading to no relationship progress whatsoever.

Square-headed Spouse: Slang for a computer.

Stan: A combination of stalker and fan

Stashing: Is when you date someone and don’t tell anyone about them. It's like having a guilty secret. For example, if you've been dating for a while but none of his friends or family know you exist then you've been hidden away from the inner circle and stashed.

Straight-Fire: Teen lingo for something hot and trendy.

Stress Puppy: A person who seems to thrive on being stressed out and whiney. "I'd like to work with Patrick, but he's too much of a stress puppy ... everything always crisis."

Stussy: Someone who is well-dressed and trendy.

Sus: When someone is acting suspicious or shady

Sweeple: Sweet Twitter people

Textrovert: A play on the terms "introvert" and "extrovert" it refers to someone who feels an increased sense of bravery while texting, as opposed to communicating in person. It can also refer to someone who will only say what they really feel over text messages.

Three-dot Disappearing Act...: It's the act of starting to type a text message on your smartphone and then stopping. It causes the three dots in your conversation to keep vanishing and popping up in a torturous cycle.

Throning: Similar to a trophy bride, or a trophy SO, it's when a person dates someone specifically to elevate his or her own social status, wealth or reputation.

Throw Shade: Teen lingo for throwing a dirty look at someone or saying something unpleasant to them.

To Deep-Like: This is when someone who is interested in you goes through your social media and likes posts that are so old that even you forgot about them.

Trill: True and real

Turnt: Hype for a party

Twabstinence: A slang term used to describe someone’s decision to cut back on their Twitter time because it is preventing them from completing their work or other important daily tasks.

Tweeps: Twitter followers

Tweetup: A meetup (organized or impromptu gathering) of people that use Twitter.

Twerminology: A slang term meaning "Twitter terminology."

Twitt: A newbie (or an insignificant, bothersome person) using Twitter

Twittcrastination: Slang term that refers to using Twitter as a form of procrastination

Twitter fly: A social butterfly on Twitter. A Twitterfly uses the @ sign in many messages, showing they have a lot of Twitter friends to talk with or mention in their updates.

Twitterati: Twitter power users, the tweet elite whose feeds attract thousands of followers.

Twitterature: Classic literature in tweets

Twibe: group of Twitter users interested in a common topic

Tweepish - Feeling sheepish or regretful about something you tweeted

Tweetaholic - A person addicted to tweeting

Twettiquette: Short for Twitter etiquette. It is a slang term used to describe acceptable Twitter behavior.

Twittermob - A flash mob formed as a result of sharing information on Twitter

Twitterpated: Slang term describing the feeling one experiences when messages on Twitter become overwhelming.

Twitterphoria: Slang term describing the feelings of elation one experiences when they add someone as a friend and the person adds them in return.

Twalker - One who "stalks" others on Twitter. They don’t post tweets but rather just reads them lurking like a troll.

Tweckling: One who "heckles" via Twitter, most commonly seen at conferences or town halls.

You-Turn: Slang for someone who goes from one extreme relationship to the next in the blink of an eye. It's like that couple who are crazy in love one day, but then changing their status to "single" two weeks later.

Vacationship: A long distance relationship in which the couple only gets together for vacations.

Vamping: Slang for when teens stay up all night texting, messaging, surfing the web, or posting to social media.

Vulturing: When you know a relationship is about to explode and you can finally have a chance to be the shoulder to cry on for your longtime crush. It's when people are circling around a dying relationship, waiting to swoop in and be the next one.

Wanksta: It's a person who tries to act tough. You usually say it to call a person out for trying to be cool.

Webbelganger: A person who comes up in an online search but is not the person you're searching for.

Welfie: A workout selfie. It can also refer to someone who is "wealthy in selfies" or as a pejorative term for someone on welfare.

Wexting: A combination of walking and texting with the head down.

Wig snatched: Exposing someone to reveal the truth

Woke – Being aware of current affairs

Yeet: A way to show excitement or agree

Zombie-ing: When someone who has ghosted you starts trying to lure you back in. It’s like a ghost coming back from the dead.

​ACRONYMS

  • ASAP: As Soon As Possible

  • BBIAB: Be Back In A Bit

  • BBL/BBS: Be Back Later/Soon

  • BF: Boyfriend

  • BFF: Best Friends Forever

  • BFFL: Best Friends for Life

  • BRB: Be Right Back

  • CYA: See You

  • FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions

  • FB: Facebook

  • FML: "F-Word" My Life

  • FTFY: Fixed That For You

  • FTW: For the Win

  • FYI: For Your Information

  • G2G: Got to Go

  • GF: Girlfriend

  • GR8: Great

  • GTFO: Get the "F-Word" Out

  • HBIC: Head B**** in Charge

  • HML: Hit My Line, or Hate My Life

  • HTH: Hope This Helps

  • IDK: I Don't Know

  • IMO/IMHO: In My Opinion/In My Humble Opinion

  • IRL: In Real Life

  • ISTG: I Swear to God

  • JK: Just Kidding

  • KTHX: OK, Thanks

  • L8R: Later

  • LMAO: Laugh My "A-Word" Off

  • LMFAO: Laugh My "F-ing" "A-Word" Off

  • LOL: Laugh Out Loud

  • MWF: Married White Female/Monday, Wednesday, Friday

  • NM: Nevermind

  • NP: No Problem

  • NSFW: Not Safe for Work

  • OMG: Oh My God

  • ORLY: Oh Really?

  • OTOH: On the Other Hand

  • RN: Right Now

  • ROFL: Roll On the Floor Laughing

  • RUH: Are Your Horney

  • SFW: Safe for Work

  • SOML: Story of My Life

  • STFU: Shut the "F-Word" Up

  • TFTI: Thanks for the Invite

  • TMI: Too Much Information

  • TTFN: Ta-ta for now

  • TTYL: Talk to You Later

  • TWSS: That's What She Said

  • U: You

  • W/: With

  • W/O: Without

  • WYD: What You Doing

  • WTH: What the Hell?

  • WTF: What the "F-Word"

  • WYM: What You Mean?

  • WYSIWYG: What You See Is What You Get

  • Y: Why

  • YW: You're Welcome

  • YWA: You're Welcome Anyway

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