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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	203
LOL	Laughing out loud	451
IRL	In real life	454
TTYL	Talk to you later	497
DM	Direct message	510
sus	Suspicious	511
SMH	Shaking my head	529
TY	Thank you	534
Bussin	Really good	545
BTW	By the way	548
Y	Why	548
xbf	Ex-boyfriend	549
LAN	Local Area Network	550
IKR	I know, right?	555
TLDR	Too long, didn't read	556
YW	You're welcome	558
FML	F*** my life	563
thx	Thanks	564
Simp	A person who obsesses over someone that does not return the same affection	564
gf	Girlfriend	565
FTW	For the win	565
nvm	Nevermind	568
143	I love you	569
FFS	For f***'s sake	569
Swag	Skills or style	569
IMO	In my opinion	570
TBH	To be honest	573
2	To	573
HRU	How are you	573
l8r	Later	574
Friendversary	Friendship anniversary	575
Karen	An entitled woman	575
Clout chaser	A person who does things just to become popular	576
go brrr	Solve a problem	576
Selfie	A picture of yourself	576
fb	Facebook	577
pls	Please	578
Bro	Brother	578
YOLO	You only live once	578
TYVM	Thank you very much	579
HUMM	Hope you miss me	579
bsf	Best friend	579
OIC	Oh, I see	580
LMIRL	Let's meet in real life	580
IDEK	I don't even know	580
Whoa	Expression of surprise	580
hun	Honey	580
feels	Feelings	581
IMY	I miss you	581
Alphabet mafia	LGBTQIA+ people	581
HMU	Hit me up	581
bbg	Baby girl	581
sux	Sucks	581
LOLOL	Lots of laugh out louds	582
NOYB	None of your business	582
bday	Birthday	582
FOMO	Fear of missing out	582
IMU	I miss you	583
MIA	Missing in action	583
NGL	Not gonna lie	583
LMS	Like my status	583
fit	Outfit	583
H&K	Hugs and kisses	584
L8	Late	584
LMFAO	Laughing my freakin' a** off	584
MCYT	Minecraft YouTuber	584
Dunk on	Make fun of	584
lil	Little	584
Tweet	Twitter post	584
CMIIW	Correct me if I'm wrong	585
IMHO	In my humble opinion	585
d	Di**	585
CCG	Collectible card game	585
WYB	Watch your back	585
Catfish	To assume a false identity	585
xgf	Ex-girlfriend	585
OG	Original gangster	585
rly	Really	586
KMAB	Kiss my a, b**	586
IMD	In my dreams	586
IOU	I owe you	586
TFTA	Thanks for the add	586
Creeper	A socially invasive person	586
Sheesh	Expression of disbelief	587
TC	Take care	587
FRFR	For real for real	587
PM	Private message	587
SD	Sweet dreams	587
IWU	I want you	587
IHY	I hate you	587
Tune up	Beat up	587
lolz	Laugh out louds	587
AMA	Ask me anything	587
Based	Agree	587
Bet	You bet	587
POTUS	President of the United States	587
favs	Favorites	587
Vine	6 second video	587
2H2H	Too hot to handle	588
Clapback	A clever comeback	588
Handle	Twitter username	588
JSYK	Just so you know	588
LYL	Love you lots	588
Big yikes	Wow	588
YMMV	Your mileage may vary	588
Caught in 4K	Caught in the act	588
Thigh gap	Space between a person's thighs	588
Don't @ me	Don't mention me in your tweets	588
IAB	In a bit	588
TBR	To be real	588
Gang gang	I'm with you	588
Ratioed	Receiving many more replies than likes on your tweet	588
BW	Best wishes	588
ICYMI	In case you missed it	588
Straight fire	Very cool	588
Paper hands	To sell a stock at the first sign of trouble	588
POG	Play of the game	588
vlog	Video blog	588
Doge	Dog	588
HIFW	How I felt when	589
ITYS	I told you so	589
IBF	Internet best friend	589
LYSM	Love you so much	589
Influencer	A social media user who affects others' behaviors	589
TMG	That's my girl	589
GS	GilvaSunner	589
Comfort idol	A celebrity whose actions soothe you	589
FYP	For You page	589
obv	Obviously	589
Lady boner	Female feeling of sexual arousal	589
Vacay	Vacation	589
Larper	Live action role-player	589
Chillax	Chill and relax	589
Keyboard warrior	A person that posts controversial opinions online	589
TCG	Trading card game	589
Bestie	Best Friend	589
Hipster	A person who dislikes mainstream culture	589
Twittersphere	The world of Twitter	589
Crew	Group of friends	589
CYL	Catch ya later	590
Zaddy	A composed, fashionable, and attractive man	590
WTG	Way to go	590
And I oop	I'm so embarassed	590
The struggle is real	Having difficulty doing something	590
WEG	Wicked evil grin	590
TFW	That feeling when	590
Horny on main	Acting lustful on your primary social account	590
LPP	Likes per post	590
FOH	F*** outta here	590
Chasing clout	Doing things just to become popular	590
WSG	What's good	590
Meme stock	A stock hyped on social media	590
Lick	Theft	590
Mald	Mad and bald	590
DM slide	Direct message to a crush	590
MM	Music Monday	590
HML	Hate my life	590
DemThrones	Game of Thrones	590
Planking	Lying face down and straight like a plank	590
fav	Favorite	590
Fetch	Cool	590
HNY	Happy new year	590
yt	YouTube	590
2U2	To you too	591
BION	Believe it or not	591
Redditor	A Reddit user	591
BFFL	Best friends for life	591
TRS	That really sucks	591
Sip tea	Mind your business	591
issa	It's a	591
Nae Nae	Hip-rocking, hand-raising dance move	591
Twinsies	Two people who share a common trait	591
TTY	Talk to you	591
deets	Details	591
ATW	All the way	591
XO	Kiss and Hug	591
Mid	Mediocre	591
bbq	Barbecue	591
CSB	Cool story, bro	591
Slacktivism	Lazy activism	591
SG	SilvaGunner	591
MCM	Man-crush Monday	591
PMKI	Pretty much killin' it	591
LeBroning	Flopping	591
HMB	Hit me back	591
ASL	Age, sex, location	592
BFD	Big freakin' deal	592
Day one	A very close friend	592
TBR	To be rude	592
NLT	No later than	592
Quaranfifteen	Weight gained during COVID-19 quarantine	592
TAY	Thinking about you	592
WYWH	Wish you were here	592
Subtweet	Subliminal tweet	592
WDYT	What do you think	592
Movember	Mustache-growing November	592
HOPE	Have Only Positive Expectations	592
TikToker	A TikTok user	592
On fleek	Perfect	592
D/C	Don't care	592
Grelfie	Group selfie	592
Cancel culture	Canceling people who do anything controversial	592
GPOY	Gratuitous picture of yourself	592
HWU	Hey, what's up?	592
FBF	Flashback Friday	592
NB	Not bad	592
RT	Retweet	592
Bling	Overly flashy jewelry	592
Himbo	A naive, musclebound male	592
delish	Delicious	592
TFF	Twitter follower-friend	592
TIL	Today I learned	592
PFP	Profile picture	592
CBB	Can't be bothered	592
2l8	Too late	593
Cinnamon roll	A kind, gentle person	593
YouTuber	A YouTube user	593
Fleek	Perfect	593
LRT	Last retweet	593
Slide into your DMs	To send a direct message on Twitter	593
SOS	Someone special	593
TTYS	Talk to you soon	593
Fake news	Fake news source that pretends to be real	593
WBU	What 'bout you	593
BGF	Best guy friend	593
SA	Sexual assault	593
Voteflake	A person who does not accept official election results	593
IFSFY	I feel sorry for you	593
RIP my mentions	I'm going to receive a lot of Twitter notifications	593
Periodt	An expression of emphasis	593
YYSS	Yeah yeah, sure sure	593
E choke	An expression of shock or surprise	593
PTL	Praise the Lord	593
BCO	Big crush on	593
ADM	Ay dios mio	593
Roaching	Secretly dating many romantic partners at the same time	593
Seltering	Sticking out your rear in a fitness pose	593
Fire	Awesome	593
Facebook friend	A friend on Facebook, but most likely not in real life	593
OOMF	One of my followers	593
Live-tweet	To tweet about something currently taking place	593
TGFF	Thank God for Friday	593
Doomer	A person who focuses on negative possibilities	593
AOTY	Album of the year	593
TBT	Throwback Thursday	593
GIF	Graphics Interchange Format	593
Celine a scene	To add a Celine Dion song to a video for maximum emotional impact	593
Mistweet	Tweet mistake	593
BD	Big deal	594
IIRC	If I remember correctly	594
Bing bong	Expression of emphasis	594
F4F	Follow for follow	594
Cancel	Shut down or force out	594
Covfefe	Coverage	594
Bikini bridge	Space between a bikini bottom and stomach	594
Hellmaxxing	Committing a series of sinful acts	594
Snacc	An attractive person	594
mishu	Miss you	594
OP	Original poster	594
AHFY	Always here for you	594
IHU	I hate you	594
MDL	Might delete later	594
FTFY	Fixed that for you	594
Clout leech	A person who is friends with someone just to become more popular	594
Put on blast	To call out	594
Quaranteam	A small group that socializes in-person during COVID-19	594
Cottagecore	An aesthetic centered around romanticized rural living	594
Simping	Obsessing over a person that does not return the same affection	594
Blursday	Literally any day of the week, they're all the same now	594
Shelfie	Picture of objects arranged on a shelf	594
FYE	For your entertainment	594
Trumper	A Donald Trump supporter	594
Hop off	Go away	594
Spoopy	Spooky and funny	594
Mood	How I'm feeling	594
OTP	One true pairing	594
Ginger	Red-head	594
Tweetsult	Insulting tweet	594
Virtue signaling	Demonstrating moral superiority	595
FCOL	For crying out loud	595
Clap back	A clever comeback	595
FTR	For the record	595
AFAYC	As fast as you can	595
KIT	Keep in touch	595
Copypasta	A block of text that is often copied and pasted online	595
hbd	Happy birthday	595
LSS	Long story short	595
Gobbo	Goblin	595
TQVM	Thank you very much	595
OOTD	Outfit of the day	595
OOTL	Out of the loop	595
inspo	Inspiration	595
Tea	Truth	595
WCGW	What could go wrong	595
Gatekeep	To police who has access to an identity or community	595
Cape	To defend someone's actions, often undeservedly	595
BNIB	Brand new in box	595
Llello	Cocaine	595
Brigading	When one online community harasses another	595
Snapback culture	Pressure on new moms to snap back to their pre-pregnancy bodies	595
OTTOMH	Off the top of my head	595
Sussy baka	Suspicious fool	595
AITA	Am I the a**hole	595
Instagrammer	A person who uses Instagram	595
Date ladder	A person you date to make yourself seem more desirable	595
Unicorn mom	An imperfect, authentic mom who defies mom shaming	595
pic	Picture	595
Chonk	An overweight animal	595
Tweetup	Twitter meetup	595
LLS	Laughing like s***	595
POIDH	Pictures or it didn't happen	595
Unfriend	To remove a friend on Facebook	595
Snapchatter	Snapchat user	595
Sharent	An oversharing parent on social media	595
TSNF	That's so not fair	595
Hits different	Affects differently	595
lk	Like	595
derp	Expression of stupidity	595
DBTS	Don't believe that stuff	595
Gloomer	An apathetic 20-something	595
OT3	One true threesome	595
Facestalking	Looking through someone's pictures on Facebook	595
Moots	People you follow on social media who follow you back	595
WCW	Woman-crush Wednesday	595
VSCO girls	Preppy female teen Instagrammers	595
Slacktivist	Lazy activist	595
OTL	One true love	595
tl	Timeline	596
IAG	It's all good	596
Book hangover	Remaining attached to a book you just finished	596
The gram	Instagram	596
YSK	You should know	596
KWIM	Know what I mean	596
BOLO	Be on the lookout	596
TCOB	Takin' care of business	596
Viner	Vine user	596
AML	All my love	596
Chad	A physically fit, overly confident man	596
FH	Future husband	596
Elsagate	Inappropriate content targeted at kids on YouTube	596
Sending me	Making me laugh	596
YGG	You go girl	596
HNM	Happy new month	596
Spill the tea	Share the gossip	596
Sock puppet account	A fake online identity	596
Parasocial relationship	A one-way relationship between a fan and a creator	596
fbo	Facebook official	596
Ghost post	A Facebook comment that was removed	596
Blow up	To become successful	596
U2U	Up to you	596
It me	I identify with that	596
Faceremorse	Remorse after posting on Facebook	596
CYF	Check your Facebook	596
Momfluencer	A mom who influences other moms on social media	596
Haunting	Following a romantic partner on social media after abruptly leaving them	596
AFAICS	As far as I can see	596
IG	Instagram	596
Headcanon	A fan's unverified beliefs about a story	596
Cringe	Unpleasant	596
Dead	Hilarious	596
Go off	Angrily complain	596
Left no crumbs	Completely dominated	596
RIP to your mentions	You're going to receive a lot of Twitter notifications	596
TSS	Toxic Shock Syndrome	596
Disneybounding	Dressing similarly to Disney characters	596
FB	Follow back	596
Swipe right	Approve	596
Secks	Sex	596
BFK	Big fat kiss	596
S4S	Share for share	596
OG	Original	596
Amazeballs	Amazing	596
Poser	A person who pretends to be someone they are not	596
Snapstreak	Snapchat streak	597
Husbando	A fictional man that a real person has a crush on	597
GFN	Gone for now	597
Fauci Ouchie	COVID-19 vaccine	597
IME	In my experience	597
ir8	Irate	597
LOL	Lots of love	597
Crypto Mom	SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce	597
BDE	Big D*** Energy	597
TIFU	Today I F***ed Up	597
TIC	Tongue-in-cheek	597
Dadication	Fatherly dedication	597
Finstagram	Fake Instagram account	597
PM	Postmeridian	597
DILLIGAF	Do I look like I give a flip?	597
DU	Don't understand	597
Hard pants	Any non-stretchy pants	597
BMS	Broke my scale	597
Blue-checked	Verified on Twitter	597
Who dey breet	Who is breathing?	597
Woke up and chose violence	Decided to be hostile	597
egirl	An extremely online teen girl	597
Flurona	Having both the flu and covid	597
DYOR	Do your own research	597
Yuck your yum	Criticize something you like	597
Algospeak	Slang used to bypass content filters	597
OMGD	Oh my gosh, duh	597
NC	No Contact	597
Swipe left	Reject	597
BBM	Brains by Mattel	597
TSIR	The struggle is real	597
DU	Darn you	597
JFK	Just freakin' kidding	597
Twitterstorm	A quick rise of activity about a specific topic on Twitter	597
WTFNF	What the f**ing f*	597
SAT	Sorry about that	597
WADR	With all due respect	597
POTB	Pat on the back	597
LLPOF	Liar liar pants on fire	597
IA	I agree	597
GGGB	Good girl gone bad	597
GUFN	Grounded until further notice	597
Diddy crop	To cut a person out of your life	597
Tindering	Using Tinder	597
Smol	Small and cute	597
Instagram husband	A person who takes pictures of another person for Instagram	597
Slim thick	A female body shape	597
Take the L	Take the loss	597
Say less	I understand	597
S-tier	Top rank	597
ACV	After coronavirus	597
Greenwashing	Deceptively claiming to be eco-friendly	597
Volcel	Voluntary celibate	597
Face card	A gorgeous face	597
Pick me	A person desperate for attention and approval	597
NYP	Name your price	597
TBR	To be read	597
SAHD	Stay-at-home dad	597
Totes	Totally	597
yt	Whitey	597
POUS	President of the United States	597
J-Pow	Jerome Powell	597
Diamond hands	To hold a stock through losses	597
IMPO	In my personal opinion	597
HYFR	Heck ya, freakin' right	597
Blackfishing	Pretending to be ethnically Black	597
PBUH	Peace be upon Him	597
Rinstagram	Real Instagram account	597
notif	Notification	597
GMAFB	Give me a friggin' break	597
That ain't it	That's no good	597
TT	Trending topic	597
HBBD	Happy belated birthday	597
Tweeps	Twitter peeps	597
Opa	Greek exclamation	597
Perc30	Oxycodone, commonly mixed with fentanyl	597
azz	A**	597
gma	Grandma	597
Ermahgerd	Oh my gosh	597
PRT	Please Retweet	597
AWOL	Absent while online	598
KIR	Keepin' it real	598
Delulu	Delusional	598
Baka	Fool	598
NSFV	Not safe for viewing	598
YVW	You're very welcome	598
DYAC	D*** You Auto Correct	598
DH	Dear hubby	598
Wildin	Acting crazy	598
Tweeter	A person who tweets	598
Mannequin challenge	Challenge that involves one or more people freezing in place	598
BBB	Boring beyond belief	598
4n	Foreign	598
SOAB	Son of a b****	598
FTTB	For the time being	598
OP	Outta pocket	598
MLM	Men loving men	598
Mutual	A person you follow on social media who also follows you	598
MTF	More to follow	598
Wojak	A Microsoft Paint-created Internet character	598
GGG	Gotta get a grip	598
wtv	Whatever	598
Asl	As hell	598
Fax, no printer	Truth	598
CMV	Change my view	598
f9	Fine	598
Retweet offender	A person who constantly retweets on Twitter	598
TIHI	Thanks, I hate it	598
Latergram	A picture posted on Instagram later than when it was taken	598
fbf	Facebook friend	598
dc	Daycare	598
MFW	My face when	598
NTA	Not the a**hole	598
Wig	Incredible	598
Pharbz	Phoebe Bridgers fans	598
CX	Correction	598
Tendies	Chicken tenders	598
q	Coupon	598
Dressgate	Controversy about the colors of a dress	598
Collab house	A house full of social media influencers	598
TikTok house	A house full of TikTok influencers	598
Wokefishing	Pretending to have progressive political views	598
WOAT	Worst of all time	598
Bloomer	A well-adjusted 20-something	598
Valid	Excellent	598
Nocoiner	A person who owns no cryptocurrency	598
Detweet	To delete a tweet	598

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