Sorry, Swifties. The word of the year for 2023 is “rizz,” according to the publishers of the Oxford English Dictionary. Rizz beat out Swiftie, situationship and de-influencing to claim word of the year honors.
The competition celebrates recently created words or expressions that symbolize a period of time, while also “having potential as a term of lasting cultural significance or providing a snapshot of social history,” the Oxford University Press said as it announced the winner.
If you’re asking what “rizz” means, you’re not alone — particularly if you’re a generation or so older than Gen Z. But don’t feel too left out: There’s even a chance that you have rizz without actually knowing what rizz is. And like seemingly everything these days, it can also be a verb.
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