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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
LOL	Laughing out loud	473
IRL	In real life	488
DM	Direct message	519
TTYL	Talk to you later	521
sus	Suspicious	540
SMH	Shaking my head	541
TY	Thank you	548
xbf	Ex-boyfriend	555
Y	Why	556
IKR	I know, right?	561
BTW	By the way	564
YW	You're welcome	565
Bussin	Really good	573
gf	Girlfriend	574
thx	Thanks	574
FFS	For f***'s sake	574
FML	F*** my life	574
nvm	Nevermind	576
Swag	Skills or style	576
143	I love you	577
IMO	In my opinion	577
TBH	To be honest	577
Friendversary	Friendship anniversary	577
TLDR	Too long, didn't read	578
FTW	For the win	578
HRU	How are you	579
LAN	Local Area Network	579
l8r	Later	580
LMIRL	Let's meet in real life	580
Alphabet mafia	LGBTQIA+ people	580
2	To	581
YOLO	You only live once	581
Selfie	A picture of yourself	581
go brrr	Solve a problem	582
fb	Facebook	582
HUMM	Hope you miss me	582
Karen	An entitled woman	583
Simp	A person who obsesses over someone that does not return the same affection	583
LOLOL	Lots of laugh out louds	583
Clout chaser	A person who does things just to become popular	583
Bro	Brother	583
bsf	Best friend	583
OIC	Oh, I see	584
pls	Please	584
IMY	I miss you	584
MIA	Missing in action	584
HMU	Hit me up	584
LMS	Like my status	584
FOMO	Fear of missing out	584
hun	Honey	584
feels	Feelings	585
Whoa	Expression of surprise	585
H&K	Hugs and kisses	586
IMHO	In my humble opinion	586
IMU	I miss you	586
bday	Birthday	586
d	Di**	586
NGL	Not gonna lie	586
Dunk on	Make fun of	586
CMIIW	Correct me if I'm wrong	587
YMMV	Your mileage may vary	587
HIFW	How I felt when	587
IDEK	I don't even know	587
Straight fire	Very cool	587
sux	Sucks	587
CCG	Collectible card game	587
OG	Original gangster	587
Paper hands	To sell a stock at the first sign of trouble	588
TYVM	Thank you very much	588
IWU	I want you	588
IHY	I hate you	588
lolz	Laugh out louds	588
Vine	6 second video	588
TFTA	Thanks for the add	588
Sheesh	Expression of disbelief	588
Bet	You bet	588
xgf	Ex-girlfriend	588
favs	Favorites	588
Creeper	A socially invasive person	588
bbg	Baby girl	588
AMA	Ask me anything	588
SD	Sweet dreams	588
Thigh gap	Space between a person's thighs	589
L8	Late	589
LYL	Love you lots	589
MCYT	Minecraft YouTuber	589
NOYB	None of your business	589
TC	Take care	589
Catfish	To assume a false identity	589
FRFR	For real for real	589
IMD	In my dreams	589
fit	Outfit	589
lil	Little	589
BW	Best wishes	589
LLS	Laughing like s***	589
TFW	That feeling when	589
WYB	Watch your back	589
TBR	To be real	589
POTUS	President of the United States	589
Tune up	Beat up	589
2H2H	Too hot to handle	590
JSYK	Just so you know	590
Keyboard warrior	A person that posts controversial opinions online	590
WTG	Way to go	590
IAB	In a bit	590
TMG	That's my girl	590
GS	GilvaSunner	590
Clapback	A clever comeback	590
obv	Obviously	590
IOU	I owe you	590
Slacktivism	Lazy activism	590
HML	Hate my life	590
Tweet	Twitter post	590
POG	Play of the game	590
CSB	Cool story, bro	590
TCG	Trading card game	590
vlog	Video blog	590
Bestie	Best Friend	590
Fetch	Cool	590
Hipster	A person who dislikes mainstream culture	590
Crew	Group of friends	590
MCM	Man-crush Monday	590
LeBroning	Flopping	590
yt	YouTube	590
LMFAO	Laughing my freakin' a** off	591
HMB	Hit me back	591
LYSM	Love you so much	591
Ratioed	Receiving many more replies than likes on your tweet	591
WEG	Wicked evil grin	591
Big yikes	Wow	591
KMAB	Kiss my a, b**	591
IFSFY	I feel sorry for you	591
AOTY	Album of the year	591
Twittersphere	The world of Twitter	591
The struggle is real	Having difficulty doing something	591
TBR	To be rude	591
LPP	Likes per post	591
Lady boner	Female feeling of sexual arousal	591
deets	Details	591
Chasing clout	Doing things just to become popular	591
Grelfie	Group selfie	591
Caught in 4K	Caught in the act	591
ICYMI	In case you missed it	591
MM	Music Monday	591
Chillax	Chill and relax	591
Planking	Lying face down and straight like a plank	591
TFF	Twitter follower-friend	591
FBF	Flashback Friday	591
fav	Favorite	591
TIL	Today I learned	591
PMKI	Pretty much killin' it	591
Don't @ me	Don't mention me in your tweets	591
FYP	For You page	591
Handle	Twitter username	591
Vacay	Vacation	591
2l8	Too late	592
NLT	No later than	592
TAY	Thinking about you	592
ITYS	I told you so	592
BFFL	Best friends for life	592
WYWH	Wish you were here	592
rly	Really	592
BGF	Best guy friend	592
mishu	Miss you	592
IBF	Internet best friend	592
Meme stock	A stock hyped on social media	592
GPOY	Gratuitous picture of yourself	592
BCO	Big crush on	592
ADM	Ay dios mio	592
ATW	All the way	592
XO	Kiss and Hug	592
Twinsies	Two people who share a common trait	592
Nae Nae	Hip-rocking, hand-raising dance move	592
DemThrones	Game of Thrones	592
delish	Delicious	592
Mald	Mad and bald	592
HNY	Happy new year	592
Doge	Dog	592
FOH	F*** outta here	592
IIRC	If I remember correctly	593
TRS	That really sucks	593
Voteflake	A person who does not accept official election results	593
WDYT	What do you think	593
D/C	Don't care	593
TTY	Talk to you	593
PTL	Praise the Lord	593
And I oop	I'm so embarassed	593
Fire	Awesome	593
Spoopy	Spooky and funny	593
Bling	Overly flashy jewelry	593
bbq	Barbecue	593
Covfefe	Coverage	593
WCW	Woman-crush Wednesday	593
CBB	Can't be bothered	594
SOS	Someone special	594
Shelfie	Picture of objects arranged on a shelf	594
Slide into your DMs	To send a direct message on Twitter	594
TQVM	Thank you very much	594
Horny on main	Acting lustful on your primary social account	594
fbo	Facebook official	594
RIP my mentions	I'm going to receive a lot of Twitter notifications	594
Lick	Theft	594
tl	Timeline	594
TGFF	Thank God for Friday	594
Influencer	A social media user who affects others' behaviors	594
SG	SilvaGunner	594
Celine a scene	To add a Celine Dion song to a video for maximum emotional impact	595
Fleek	Perfect	595
BION	Believe it or not	595
Quaranteam	A small group that socializes in-person during COVID-19	595
Redditor	A Reddit user	595
Day one	A very close friend	595
Doomer	A person who focuses on negative possibilities	595
PFP	Profile picture	595
E choke	An expression of shock or surprise	595
YouTuber	A YouTube user	595
SA	Sexual assault	595
Blursday	Literally any day of the week, they're all the same now	595
Cancel culture	Canceling people who do anything controversial	595
Hits different	Affects differently	595
On fleek	Perfect	595
Facebook friend	A friend on Facebook, but most likely not in real life	595
TikToker	A TikTok user	595
Hop off	Go away	595
Simping	Obsessing over a person that does not return the same affection	595
Trumper	A Donald Trump supporter	595
Fake news	Fake news source that pretends to be real	595
Periodt	An expression of emphasis	595
Movember	Mustache-growing November	595
RT	Retweet	595
Cancel	Shut down or force out	595
Virtue signaling	Demonstrating moral superiority	595
Quaranfifteen	Weight gained during COVID-19 quarantine	595
OTP	One true pairing	595
Ginger	Red-head	595
TBT	Throwback Thursday	595
GIF	Graphics Interchange Format	595
POIDH	Pictures or it didn't happen	595
Mistweet	Tweet mistake	595
Seltering	Sticking out your rear in a fitness pose	595
FB	Follow back	595
yt	Whitey	596
2U2	To you too	596
RIP to your mentions	You're going to receive a lot of Twitter notifications	596
Faceremorse	Remorse after posting on Facebook	596
inspo	Inspiration	596
FCOL	For crying out loud	596
Gobbo	Goblin	596
IMAO	In my arrogant opinion	596
IME	In my experience	596
ITMT	In the meantime	596
TTYS	Talk to you soon	596
WBU	What 'bout you	596
Moots	People you follow on social media who follow you back	596
hbd	Happy birthday	596
LSS	Long story short	596
LRT	Last retweet	596
OP	Original poster	596
OOTD	Outfit of the day	596
MDL	Might delete later	596
DU	Darn you	596
IHU	I hate you	596
FTFY	Fixed that for you	596
YYSS	Yeah yeah, sure sure	596
Instagrammer	A person who uses Instagram	596
Put on blast	To call out	596
HWU	Hey, what's up?	596
Abow	Wow	596
CYF	Check your Facebook	596
VSCO girls	Preppy female teen Instagrammers	596
NB	Not bad	596
F4F	Follow for follow	596
Live-tweet	To tweet about something currently taking place	596
CEO of	The best at	596
J-Pow	Jerome Powell	596
Himbo	A naive, musclebound male	596
Procrastibaking	Baking to put off something else	596
Tweetup	Twitter meetup	596
issa	It's a	596
TBR	To be read	596
Mood	How I'm feeling	596
Unfriend	To remove a friend on Facebook	596
Larper	Live action role-player	596
Hellmaxxing	Committing a series of sinful acts	596
Bikini bridge	Space between a bikini bottom and stomach	596
egirl	An extremely online teen girl	596
TT	Trending topic	596
Comfort idol	A celebrity whose actions soothe you	596
lk	Like	596
derp	Expression of stupidity	596
Crypto Mom	SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce	596
Facestalking	Looking through someone's pictures on Facebook	596
Tweetsult	Insulting tweet	596
Dead	Hilarious	596
Cinnamon roll	A kind, gentle person	596
Mutual	A person you follow on social media who also follows you	597
Bing bong	Expression of emphasis	597
The gram	Instagram	597
Viner	Vine user	597
KIT	Keep in touch	597
KWIM	Know what I mean	597
Haunting	Following a romantic partner on social media after abruptly leaving them	597
Roaching	Secretly dating many romantic partners at the same time	597
ACV	After coronavirus	597
stimmy	Stimulus check	597
TCOB	Takin' care of business	597
TIC	Tongue-in-cheek	597
IG	Instagram	597
Hard pants	Any non-stretchy pants	597
PM	Postmeridian	597
Retweet offender	A person who constantly retweets on Twitter	597
Snapstreak	Snapchat streak	597
Who dey breet	Who is breathing?	597
WOAT	Worst of all time	597
AFAYC	As fast as you can	597
CAFO	Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation	597
Slacktivist	Lazy activist	597
Clout leech	A person who is friends with someone just to become more popular	597
NC	No Contact	597
Tendies	Chicken tenders	597
OP	Outta pocket	597
YGG	You go girl	597
Pharbz	Phoebe Bridgers fans	597
OTL	One true love	597
Diddy crop	To cut a person out of your life	597
AHFY	Always here for you	597
Spill the tea	Share the gossip	597
Fauci Ouchie	COVID-19 vaccine	597
PRT	Please Retweet	597
Tea	Truth	597
Gloomer	An apathetic 20-something	597
Bloomer	A well-adjusted 20-something	597
WADR	With all due respect	597
OT3	One true threesome	597
Cottagecore	An aesthetic centered around romanticized rural living	597
Finstagram	Fake Instagram account	597
Rinstagram	Real Instagram account	597
Bop	An excellent song or album	597
Gatekeep	To police who has access to an identity or community	597
LTD	Lovers 'til death	597
BOLO	Be on the lookout	597
Winternity	Eternal winter	597
Non-GMO	Unvaccinated	597
Snapback culture	Pressure on new moms to snap back to their pre-pregnancy bodies	597
Clap back	A clever comeback	597
Ghost post	A Facebook comment that was removed	597
S-tier	Top rank	597
Dadication	Fatherly dedication	597
Swipe right	Approve	597
Flurona	Having both the flu and covid	597
S4S	Share for share	597
Idol	A K-pop star	597
BHM	Black History Month	597
Cape	To defend someone's actions, often undeservedly	597
OOTL	Out of the loop	597
Subtweet	Subliminal tweet	597
AITA	Am I the a**hole	597
Diamond hands	To hold a stock through losses	597
GPOYW	Gratuitous picture of yourself Wednesday	597
Sharent	An oversharing parent on social media	597
FYE	For your entertainment	597
Rage baking	Baking to relieve anger or stress	597
BCBG	Bon Chic Bon Genre	597
Cringe	Unpleasant	597
TSS	Toxic Shock Syndrome	597
pic	Picture	597
Dressgate	Controversy about the colors of a dress	597
oh	Overheard	597
SAHD	Stay-at-home dad	597
Go off	Angrily complain	597
BFK	Big fat kiss	597
Chonk	An overweight animal	597
MFW	My face when	597
OOMF	One of my followers	597
Tweeter	A person who tweets	597
TSNF	That's so not fair	597
PBUH	Peace be upon Him	597
Wokefishing	Pretending to have progressive political views	597
GMAFB	Give me a friggin' break	597
q	Coupon	597
Tweeps	Twitter peeps	597
Instagram husband	A person who takes pictures of another person for Instagram	597
Amazeballs	Amazing	597
DBTS	Don't believe that stuff	597
BMS	Broke my scale	597
Headcanon	A fan's unverified beliefs about a story	597
Poser	A person who pretends to be someone they are not	597
Say less	I understand	597
Zaddy	A composed, fashionable, and attractive man	597
Blow up	To become successful	597
Snacc	An attractive person	597
LB	Like back	597
Llello	Cocaine	597
Momfluencer	A mom who influences other moms on social media	597
Chub rub	Chafing where your thighs rub together	598
BD	Big deal	598
CYL	Catch ya later	598
MBN	Must be nice	598
FTR	For the record	598
Sock puppet account	A fake online identity	598
GFN	Gone for now	598
IAG	It's all good	598
ir8	Irate	598
KIR	Keepin' it real	598
Wig	Incredible	598
TikTok house	A house full of TikTok influencers	598
At home	A worse version of something	598
TOH	The other half	598
Outta pocket	Disreputable	598
NUMTOTS	New Urbanist Memes for Transit-oriented Teens	598
YVW	You're very welcome	598
FBriend	A Facebook friend	598
Embiggen	Enlarge	598
Insta-lurking	Looking through a person's Instagram pictures	598
Lapsonym	A word whose meaning you always forget	598
Multistan	An obsessed fan of multiple things	598
Parasocial relationship	A one-way relationship between a fan and a creator	598
finsta	Fake Instagram account	598
DILLIGAF	Do I look like I give a flip?	598
AML	All my love	598
OF	OnlyFans	598
PSOG	Pure stroke of genius	598
LPT	Life Pro Tip	598
FH	Future husband	598
It me	I identify with that	598
L2M	Listening to music	598
That ain't it	That's no good	598
Wealthy selfie	Picture of yourself with a large amount of wealth	598
Algo	Algorithm	598
Blackfishing	Pretending to be ethnically Black	598
mwahugz	Kisses and hugs	598
Felfie	Family picture	598
BDE	Big D*** Energy	598
Went off	Angrily complained	598
DGYF	Dang girl, you're fine	598
JFK	Just freakin' kidding	598
HOPE	Have Only Positive Expectations	598
eboy	An extremely online teen boy	598
SAT	Sorry about that	598
Quarantini	A quarantine-times cocktail	598
POTB	Pat on the back	598
LLPOF	Liar liar pants on fire	598
IA	I agree	598
GGG	Gotta get a grip	598
Blue-checked	Verified on Twitter	598
wtv	Whatever	598
Snapchatter	Snapchat user	598
TIFU	Today I F***ed Up	598
WTT	Watching TikTok	598
Hot Vax Summer	Summer 2021	598
Goblincore	An aesthetic centered around overlooked natural things	598
Volcel	Voluntary celibate	598
Banger	An awesome, energetic piece of media	598
Fax, no printer	Truth	598
U2U	Up to you	598
Swipe left	Reject	598
AFAICS	As far as I can see	598
YSK	You should know	598
IBC	Ice bucket challenge	598
pl0x	Please	598
Momala	Kamala Harris	598
GMAB	Give me a break	598
Tindering	Using Tinder	598
Latergram	A picture posted on Instagram later than when it was taken	598
Quant	Quantitative analyst	598
OTS	On the scene	598
IJWTS	I just want to say	598
DITG	Down in the gutter	598
FOMOF	Fear of missing out on football	598
Sip tea	Mind your business	598
fbf	Facebook friend	598
WCGW	What could go wrong	598
Totes	Totally	598
Jellz	Jealous	598
POUS	President of the United States	598
IMPO	In my personal opinion	598
ibfs	Internet best friends	598
HYFR	Heck ya, freakin' right	598
LML	Laughing mad loud	598
Ribcage bragging	Showing off your rib cage	598
SOTD	Shoe of the day	598
Perc30	Oxycodone, commonly mixed with fentanyl	598
notif	Notification	598
Finna	Fixing to	598
Opa	Greek exclamation	598
azz	A**	598
Slim thick	A female body shape	598
Asl	As hell	598
gma	Grandma	598
Nocoiner	A person who owns no cryptocurrency	598
Ermahgerd	Oh my gosh	598
Collab house	A house full of social media influencers	598
TSIR	The struggle is real	598
Likers get rate	Anyone who likes this post will get a rate	598
FF	Friends forever	598
ELO	Electric Light Orchestra	598
FOGO	Fear of going outside	598
Clout demon	A social media user who covets popularity	598
Tweeple	Twitter people	598
RLRT	Real life retweet	598

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