Dictionary.com unveils it’s 2025 word of the year

Dictionary.com has revealed their Word of the Year for 2025 – and it hasn’t gone over well with some social media users.

This week, the website announced that their word of the year is ’67,’ a term that’s been making waves with Gen-Alpha kids in school and frustrating teachers around the country.

According to the organization, the definition of ’67’ remains complicated. It explained that some people see it as a word that means, ‘so-so,’ while other kids view it as a way to simply annoy their parents.

The term comes with a matching hand gesture, where ‘both palms face up and move alternately up and down,’ Dictionary.com explained.

However, for most kids, just knowing the term can indicate that you’re part of the ‘cool’ group.

Daily Mail previously reported that the term originates from a song called ‘Doot Doot (6,7)’ by rapper Skrilla, and gained traction this summer.

It simply means ‘nothing’ and can be used to suggest that a person is ‘average.’

The phrase gained traction online with people making videos about sportspeople who they believe aren’t playing well, using a clip from Skrilla’s song.

However, the term has become so irritating to some teachers that they’ve had to ban it in their classrooms.

One person wrote on Reddit: ‘I’m an eighth grade teacher and I am so done hearing it that I just banned it from my classroom.

‘You can’t say the two numbers in a row without the class bursting out in a chorus of “67.”

‘It was funny at first, but now it’s just old and continually interrupts many class conversations.’