Language naturally evolves with time, and new words are always being created — if it didn’t, we’d still be speaking Old English. Thanks to the internet and social media, the process of creating new ...

In 2008, a user at Urban Dictionary defined the “dumpster fire.” The figurative one, that is: 1. A complete disaster. 2. Something very difficult that nobody wants to deal with. “It’s a very serious ...

Merriam-Webster proved that it is once again hip to the lingual zeitgeist with the addition of 850 new words to the 2018 edition of their dictionary. The dictionary’s editors, who have previously ...

“Dumpster fire” has gone from internet meme to Merriam-Webster.com. The informal noun — defined as “an utterly calamitous or mismanaged situation or occurrence” — was added to the online dictionary ...