Language is alive. It shifts and bends with the way people use it, and the internet has only sped up this process. Social media, especially platforms like TikTok, is a powerful driver of new words and expressions.

Cambridge Dictionary has added thousands of words and phrases over the past 12 months, including ones popularized by social media.

The increasing use of TikTok trends and social media terms in everyday conversation has led Cambridge Dictionary to include “skibidi,” “delulu” and “tradwife” in the 6,000 new words it has added to its online edition over the past year.