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Social Media Slang

Slang terms have become increasingly prevalent on social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter. The list below includes common slang used in social media. You can also view a list of chat slang terms used specifically on Facebook or Twitter.

Slang Term	Meaning	Votes
Meekd	Suppressed	183
LOL	Laughing out loud	241
mk	Okay	269
IRL	In real life	311
TTYL	Talk to you later	351
TY	Thank you	396
sus	Suspicious	401
BTW	By the way	416
thx	Thanks	446
SMH	Shaking my head	459
Y	Why	462
DM	Direct message	465
Bussin	Really good	475
YW	You're welcome	479
143	I love you	481
IKR	I know, right?	492
gf	Girlfriend	498
Whoa	Expression of surprise	506
2	To	508
TLDR	Too long, didn't read	508
xbf	Ex-boyfriend	508
FML	F*** my life	515
bsf	Best friend	525
IMO	In my opinion	529
pls	Please	529
FFS	For f***'s sake	529
LAN	Local Area Network	529
Simp	A person who obsesses over someone	530
nvm	Nevermind	533
HRU	How are you	533
LMFAO	Laughing my freakin' a** off	537
FTW	For the win	542
TBH	To be honest	543
TYVM	Thank you very much	545
Karen	An entitled woman	545
Selfie	A picture a person takes of themself	545
Fr	For real	546
l8r	Later	547
OIC	Oh, I see	551
OF	OnlyFans	551
IDEK	I don't even know	551
Swag	Skills or style	551
bbg	Baby girl	553
H&K	Hugs and kisses	555
Igh	Alright	555
Delulu	Delusional	556
14643	I will always love you	557
feels	Feelings	557
YOLO	You only live once	557
sux	Sucks	558
Only in Ohio	Claiming Ohio is strange	558
bday	Birthday	559
hun	Honey	559
Clout chaser	A person who does things just to become popular	560
LMIRL	Let's meet in real life	560
NOYB	None of your business	561
fit	Outfit	563
IMU	I miss you	563
FOMO	Fear of missing out	563
ASL	Age, sex, location	565
LOLOL	Lots of laugh out louds	565
Gang gang	I'm with you	565
OG	Original gangster	565
Skibidi Toilet Syndrome	Adverse effects of watching Skibidi Toilet	566
lil	Little	566
MIA	Missing in action	567
Friendversary	Friendship anniversary	568
Zaddy	A composed, fashionable, and attractive man	569
go brrr	Solve a problem	570
LYL	Love you lots	570
KMAB	Kiss my a, b**	570
HMU	Hit me up	570
Let him cook	Don't interfere	570
FOH	F*** outta here	571
cya	See ya	572
L8	Late	572
d	Di**	572
IMY	I miss you	572
LMS	Like my status	572
Bet	You bet	572
SD	Sweet dreams	573
S-tier	Top rank	573
Caught in 4K	Caught in the act	573
CFD	Clothing, fashion, design	574
NGL	Not gonna lie	574
IMHO	In my humble opinion	575
PM	Private message	575
IMD	In my dreams	575
IDGAF	I don't give a f***	575
Tweet	Twitter post	575
WYB	Watch your back	575
rly	Really	576
Mid	Mediocre	576
XO	Kiss and Hug	576
Sheesh	Expression of disbelief	576
ICYMI	In case you missed it	576
MCYT	Minecraft YouTuber	576
Dunk on	Make fun of	577
FRFR	For real for real	577
Aggro	Aggressive	577
Influencer	A social media user who affects others' behaviors	577
lk	Like	577
xgf	Ex-girlfriend	577
CMIIW	Correct me if I'm wrong	578
Bestie	Best Friend	578
Fetch	Cool	578
BW	Best wishes	578
CCG	Collectible card game	578
favs	Favorites	578
2H2H	Too hot to handle	579
Doge	Dog	579
lolz	Laugh out louds	579
ΘΔ	Therian	579
Hipster	A person who dislikes mainstream culture	579
obv	Obviously	580
TC	Take care	580
YMMV	Your mileage may vary	580
LPP	Likes per post	580
Ratioed	Receiving many more replies than likes on your tweet	580
BFFR	Be f***ing for real	580
And I oop	I'm so embarassed	580
ATW	All the way	580
IBF	Internet best friend	580
Mald	Mad and bald	580
Don't @ me	Don't mention me in your tweets	580
Straight fire	Very cool	581
LYSM	Love you so much	581
Tune up	Beat up	581
ICL	I can't lie	581
Catfish	To assume a false identity	581
BFD	Big freakin' deal	582
POG	Play of the game	582
HIFW	How I felt when	582
TRS	That really sucks	582
Comfort idol	A celebrity whose actions soothe you	582
HUMM	Hope you miss me	582
Thigh gap	Space between a person's thighs	582
Paper hands	To sell a stock at the first sign of trouble	582
Horny on main	Acting lustful on your primary social account	582
TFTA	Thanks for the add	582
Crew	Group of friends	582
Based	Agree	582
TCG	Trading card game	582
BION	Believe it or not	583
TAY	Thinking about you	583
TTYS	Talk to you soon	583
Keyboard warrior	A person that posts controversial opinions online	583
PMKI	Pretty much killin' it	583
Clapback	A clever comeback	583
IHY	I hate you	583
DM slide	Direct message to a crush	583
Vacay	Vacation	583
Creeper	A socially invasive person	583
FYP	For You page	583
ugh	Disappointed	583
GS	GilvaSunner	583
Cray	Crazy	583
JSYK	Just so you know	584
Sigma male	An introverted guy who goes his own way	584
WTG	Way to go	584
Face card	A gorgeous face	584
BFFL	Best friends for life	584
WDYT	What do you think	584
Lady boner	Female feeling of sexual arousal	584
SA	Sexual assault	584
Fav	Favorite	584
adorbs	Adorable	585
Handle	Twitter username	585
CYL	Catch ya later	585
Day one	A very close friend	585
Movember	Mustache-growing November	585
HOPE	Have Only Positive Expectations	585
AMA	Ask me anything	585
TTY	Talk to you	585
Secks	Sex	585
C.AI	Character.AI	585
Chasing clout	Doing things just to become popular	585
RT	Retweet	585
HML	Hate my life	585
Nae Nae	Hip-rocking, hand-raising dance move	585
Bling	Overly flashy jewelry	585
Cringe	Unpleasant	585
Sending me	Making me laugh	586
ITYS	I told you so	586
WYWH	Wish you were here	586
TFW	That feeling when	586
Vine	6 second video	586
Hits different	Affects differently	586
HNY	Happy New Year	586
Twittersphere	The world of Twitter	586
The struggle is real	Having difficulty doing something	586
OT3	One true threesome	586
Blue-checked	Verified on Twitter	586
MM	Music Monday	586
Meme stock	A stock hyped on social media	586
TBR	To be real	586
Alphabet mafia	LGBTQIA+ people	586
vlog	Video blog	586
ASLP	Age, sex, location, picture	587
yt	YouTube	587
Lick	Theft	587
Big yikes	Wow	587
Doomer	A person who focuses on negative possibilities	587
HMB	Hit me back	587
Simping	Obsessing over a person that does not return the same affection	587
Pro-ship	Accepting of any fictional relationship	587
Cinnamon roll	A kind, gentle person	587
Cancel culture	Canceling people who do anything controversial	587
FTEW	For the epic win	587
4L	For life	587
deets	Details	587
Looksmaxxing	Attempting to improve your appearance	587
Pick me	A person desperate for attention and approval	587
Hop off	Go away	587
Sip tea	Mind your business	587
TBT	Throwback Thursday	587
Larper	Live action role-player	587
Chillax	Chill and relax	587
Thread	A series of messages	587
issa	It's a	587
LRT	Last retweet	587
POTUS	President of the United States	587
SG	SilvaGunner	587
Twinsies	Two people who share a common trait	588
F4F	Follow for follow	588
uttp	UTubeTrollPolice	588
Redditor	A Reddit user	588
WEG	Wicked evil grin	588
Fake news	Fake news source that pretends to be real	588
mishu	Miss you	588
Grelfie	Group selfie	588
Poser	A person who pretends to be someone they are not	588
onb	On, bro	588
Left no crumbs	Completely dominated	588
delish	Delicious	588
WSG	What's good	588
Facebook friend	A friend on Facebook, but most likely not in real life	588
Facestalking	Looking through someone's pictures on Facebook	589
LeBroning	Flopping	589
NLT	No later than	589
Date ladder	A person you date to make yourself seem more desirable	589
IM	Instant message	589
WBU	What 'bout you	589
Lurker	A forum user who reads but doesn't post	589
PFP	Profile picture	589
Sussy baka	Suspicious fool	589
TMG	That's my girl	589
GPOY	Gratuitous picture of yourself	589
PTL	Praise the Lord	589
Endgame	A couple that is meant to be together	589
Alpha male	A dominant male	589
Kenergy	Conscientious masculinity	589
Rent Free In My Head	Is frequently on my mind	589
TBR	To be read	589
Algospeak	Slang used to bypass content filters	589
Himbo	A naive, musclebound male	589
Fire	Awesome	589
CSB	Cool story, bro	589
Planking	Lying face down and straight like a plank	589
sbux	Starbucks	589
TIL	Today I learned	589
2l8	Too late	590
Say less	I understand	590
SOS	Someone special	590
Unicorn mom	An imperfect, authentic mom who defies mom shaming	590
AITA	Am I the a**hole	590
Banger	An awesome, energetic piece of media	590
DAH	Dumb a** hole	590
OP	Original poster	590
DemThrones	Game of Thrones	590
FTFY	Fixed that for you	590
Sleeper build	When a skinny person is surprisingly buff	590
D/C	Don't care	590
CBB	Can't be bothered	590
Edgar	High fade and bowl cut hairstyle	590
HWU	Hey, what's up?	590
E choke	An expression of shock or surprise	590
Slacktivism	Lazy activism	590
Passenger princess	A woman whose boyfriend always drives her around	590
Wildin	Acting crazy	590
tl	Timeline	591
Yuck your yum	Criticize something you like	591
Subtweet	Subliminal tweet	591
Disneybounding	Dressing similarly to Disney characters	591
DH	Dear husband	591
Periodt	An expression of emphasis	591
IAWTC	I agree with the comment	591
MCM	Man-crush Monday	591
hbd	Happy birthday	591
YouTuber	A YouTube user	591
BGF	Best guy friend	591
Whitesplain	To explain something as a white person	591
IFSFY	I feel sorry for you	591
GOATed with the sauce	Awesome	591
FBF	Flashback Friday	591
BNIB	Brand new in box	591
TikToker	A TikTok user	591
Snacc	An attractive person	591
Heather	A desirable person	591
Sock puppet account	A fake online identity	591
Gloomer	An apathetic 20-something	591
Brigading	When one online community harasses another	591
Put on blast	To call out	591
Cottagecore	An aesthetic centered around romanticized rural living	591
bbq	Barbecue	591
AOTY	Album of the year	591
Tweetsult	Insulting tweet	591
OOMF	One of my followers	591
TSNF	That's so not fair	591
TFF	Twitter follower-friend	591
Spill the tea	Share the gossip	591
derp	Expression of stupidity	591
BOAT	Best of all time	591
OTP	One true pairing	591
Bikini bridge	Space between a bikini bottom and stomach	592
Fleek	Perfect	592
FTR	For the record	592
Outta pocket	Disreputable	592
Cancel	Shut down or force out	592
Mistweet	Tweet mistake	592
Celine a scene	To add a Celine Dion song to a video for maximum emotional impact	592
Gatekeep	To police who has access to an identity or community	592
On fleek	Perfect	592
Tea	Truth	592
OTL	One true love	592
RIP my mentions	I'm going to receive a lot of Twitter notifications	592
Washed	No longer good	592
Gobbo	Goblin	592
SOAB	Son of a b****	592
IHU	I hate you	592
Seltering	Sticking out your rear in a fitness pose	592
OTD	Of the day	592
Waifu	A fictional female that a real person has a crush on	592
YA	Young Adult	592
Quaranteam	A small group that socializes in-person during COVID-19	592
Crunchy	Natural and sustainable lifestyle	592
Moots	People you follow on social media who follow you back	592
Voteflake	A person who does not accept official election results	592
Slide into your DMs	To send a direct message on Twitter	592
DF	Dear fiance	592
Unfriend	To remove a friend on Facebook	592
WAGs	Wives and girlfriends	592
Woke up and chose violence	Decided to be hostile	592
POC	Proof of concept	592
Chad	A physically fit, overly confident man	592
Clap back	A clever comeback	593
IIRC	If I remember correctly	593
Beta male	A submissive male	593
-core	Aesthetic	593
Momfluencer	A mom who influences other moms on social media	593
MLM	Men loving men	593
Winternity	Eternal winter	593
Parasocial relationship	A one-way relationship between a fan and a creator	593
LSS	Long story short	593
Trumper	A Donald Trump supporter	593
Goblincore	An aesthetic centered around overlooked natural things	593
Blursday	Literally any day of the week, they're all the same now	593
GOATed	Declared the best	593
DYOR	Do your own research	593
AHFY	Always here for you	593
s	Sarcasm	593
Clapped	Beaten	593
WADR	With all due respect	593
Dead	Hilarious	593
WCGW	What could go wrong	593
Clout leech	A person who is friends with someone just to become more popular	593
Cape	To defend someone's actions, often undeservedly	593
It me	I identify with that	593
OME	Oh my Edward	593
CGPT	ChatGPT	593
Elsagate	Inappropriate content targeted at kids on YouTube	593
Quaranfifteen	Weight gained during COVID-19 quarantine	593
POIDH	Pictures or it didn't happen	593
Boy math	Male logic	593
Snapchatter	Snapchat user	593
RU	Are you	593
Canon event	A pivotal event in a person's life	593
Covfefe	Coverage	593
Live-tweet	To tweet about something currently taking place	593
DA	DeviantArt	593
Who dey breet	Who is breathing?	593
dat	That	593
LBVS	Laughing but very serious	593
Mood	How I'm feeling	593
NTA	Not the a**hole	593
OG	Original	593
DBTS	Don't believe that stuff	593
Ginger	Red-head	593
FCOL	For crying out loud	594
SFM	So freaking much	594
Twitterstorm	A quick rise of activity about a specific topic on Twitter	594
meirl	Me in real life	594
IC	I see	594
KIT	Keep in touch	594
Pump your brakes	Pause and reflect	594
Husbando	A fictional man that a real person has a crush on	594
Spoopy	Spooky and funny	594
Bop	An excellent song or album	594
Vawulence	Violence	594
MBFA	Make baseball fun again	594
Sub	Subreddit	594
YSK	You should know	594
TW	Trigger warning	594
Smol	Small and cute	594
Virtue signaling	Demonstrating moral superiority	594
SMF	So much fun	594
Retweet offender	A person who constantly retweets on Twitter	594
PC4PC	Picture comment for picture comment	594
BMS	Broke my scale	594
Rizzler	A person with immense charisma	594
TQVM	Thank you very much	594
BBW	Be back whenever	594
OMGD	Oh my gosh, duh	594
OOTD	Outfit of the day	594
Silver fox	An attractive older man	594
AFAYC	As fast as you can	594
gz	Congratulations	594
Baby trap	When one partner misleads the other to cause a pregnancy	594
Snapback culture	Pressure on new moms to snap back to their pre-pregnancy bodies	594
inspo	Inspiration	594
Diamond hands	To hold a stock through losses	594
Go ham	Do something intensely	594
GIF	Graphics Interchange Format	594
Sharent	An oversharing parent on social media	594
Copypasta	A block of text that is often copied and pasted online	594
VSCO girls	Preppy female teen Instagrammers	594
TIFU	Today I F***ed Up	594
f9	Fine	594
U2U	Up to you	594
ADM	Ay dios mio	594
GRWM	Get ready with me	594
Chonk	An overweight animal	594
Instagrammer	An Instagram user	594
OTTOMH	Off the top of my head	594
GPOYW	Gratuitous picture of yourself Wednesday	594
Crypto Mom	SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce	594
FYE	For your entertainment	594
Slim thick	A female body shape	594
The sidewalk rule	Your man should walk on the street side of the sidewalk	594
TikTok house	A house full of TikTok influencers	594
CMV	Change my view	594
HNM	Happy new month	594
yt	Whitey	594
FB	Follow back	594
Totes	Totally	594
IMPO	In my personal opinion	594
NYP	Name your price	594
IBR	It's been real	594
HYFR	Heck ya, freakin' right	594
Roaching	Secretly dating many romantic partners at the same time	594
Volcel	Voluntary celibate	594
PBUH	Peace be upon Him	594
GMAFB	Give me a friggin' break	594
HBBD	Happy belated birthday	594
Tweeps	Twitter peeps	594
MDL	Might delete later	594
azz	A**	594
GPS	God's positioning system	594
BD	Big deal	595
Slacktivist	Lazy activist	595
WCW	Woman-crush Wednesday	595
KWIM	Know what I mean	595
LTR	Long-term relationship	595
FOMOF	Fear of missing out on football	595
PSGWSP	Play stupid games, win stupid prizes	595
Squick	A big turn-off	595
Ate that	Dominated	595
Fax no printer	Truth	595
YGG	You go girl	595
RIP to your mentions	You're going to receive a lot of Twitter notifications	595
BOLO	Be on the lookout	595
SAT	Sorry about that	595
Blackfishing	Pretending to be ethnically Black	595
IA	I agree	595
YYSS	Yeah yeah, sure sure	595
eboy	An extremely online teen boy	595
TBR	To be rude	595
Ghost post	A Facebook comment that was removed	595
Headcanon	A fan's unverified beliefs about a story	595
BCBG	Bon Chic Bon Genre	595
gonna	Going to	595
Tweetup	Twitter meetup	595
LLS	Laughing like s***	595
dur	Stupidly obvious	595
SAHD	Stay-at-home dad	595
FOGO	Fear of going outside	595
stimmy	Stimulus check	595
Unforced error	An easily-avoidable mistake	595
Dadication	Fatherly dedication	595
OOTL	Out of the loop	595
cx	Correction	595
Fumble the bag	Screw up	595
Haunting	Following a romantic partner on social media after abruptly leaving them	595
q	Coupon	595
uno	You know	595
Amazeballs	Amazing	595
ED	Eating disorder	595
Wig	Incredible	595
Hellmaxxing	Committing a series of sinful acts	595
LCS	Local comic store	595

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