internet slang
Digital casual language
Internet slang is informal language that emerged from online communication—abbreviations like LOL and BRB, terms like troll and spam, and expressions that spread through social media.
The phrase describes this vocabulary as a category: Internet slang changes faster than dictionaries can track.
Also called netspeak or online slang. (Capitalized Internet slang uses the older convention of treating Internet as a proper noun.)
- memeShared online humor
- emojiDigital pictograph for messaging
- trollDeliberate online antagonist
- viralSpreading quickly online
- hashtagLabeled link for posts
noob · skill issue · cringe · flex · stan · vibe · its giving · slay · understood the assignment · yeet · lowkey · salty · sus · caught in 4k · ghosting · ratio · copypasta · shitpost
- jargonjargon, lingo, legal jargon, buzz words, legalese
- digital youthscreen time, smartphones, social media, apps, texting
- Modern Slangjargon, buzzwords, neologisms, memes, emoji
- pop culturememe, celebrities, memes, trending, fandoms
- slangjargon, lingo, argot, cant, vernacular
- trendy languagebuzzword, viral phrase
internet slangformal writing
Polished, structured text
formal language · legal language · proper English · Standard English · business English
internet slangoral tradition
Culture passed by speech
classical language · archaic language · Victorian prose · classical rhetoric
internet, slang, inter, nets, netted, netting, network, networking, slangy