The Most Overused Slang Term of 2025 is One Experts Say You Should Banish Immediately

Dictionary.com named it their 2025 word of the year. The Ringerclaimed that it “ate parents’ minds.” But according to the experts at Lake Superior State University, everyone should stop using it altogether. That would be “6-7,” the ubiquitous meme accompanied by a hand gesture seemingly used by school-age children everywhere, which topped LSSU’s 50th annual list of banished words.

LSSU has been issuing its list of overused words since 1976, after someone came up with the idea at a New Years Eve party.