Nothing at all. Shouted for fun with a hand gesture like weighing two things.
Any number that ends in 67 will now set them off.
Heard in: Teacher Tapp, Aug 2026 (800+ UK teachers), Oxford Children's Word of the Year 2025
Kids' slang dictionary for parents (2026)
By Lewis C, checked 1 October 2026
Quick answer
Most of what your kid says is harmless nonsense. The words UK teachers hear most in 2026 are six seven, cooked, bro, aura, rizz, lock in and skibidi. Three terms are worth knowing about properly: mogging, looksmaxxing and gooning.
The everyday ones
- Six seven (67)
- Aura (also aura farming)
Cool factor or presence. Aura farming is doing things on purpose to look cool.
Falling off the climbing frame loses you aura.
Heard in: Teacher Tapp, Aug 2026 (800+ UK teachers), Oxford Word of the Year 2025
- Bro (also bruh, bruv)
Mate. Now often stuck on the end of a sentence for no reason.
"Can I have a biscuit, bro?" to their own mother.
Heard in: Teacher Tapp, Aug 2026 (800+ UK teachers), Teacher Tapp, Aug 2025 (2,000+ UK teachers)
- Brainrot
Low-effort, repetitive online content that feels silly but is hard to stop watching. Also a genre of Roblox games.
Usually describes whatever they were watching when you took the tablet away.
- Cap (also no cap)
Cap means a lie. No cap means "honestly, no lie".
"I tidied my room, no cap." (Cap.)
- Clock it
To notice or agree, often with a pinching hand gesture.
You spotted the hidden sweets. They clocked you clocking it.
- Cooked
In trouble or ruined. Confusingly, it can also mean doing brilliantly.
"I'm cooked" after a spelling test means it went badly.
Heard in: Teacher Tapp, Aug 2026 (800+ UK teachers), Teacher Tapp, Aug 2025 (2,000+ UK teachers)
- Crash out
Lose it completely. A meltdown.
What happens when the Wi-Fi drops mid-game.
- Delulu
Delusional, usually about something hopeful.
Thinking they'll get a phone in Year 2 is delulu.
Heard in: Oxford Children's Word of the Year 2025, Teacher Tapp, Aug 2026 (800+ UK teachers)
- Glazing
Over-the-top praise, sucking up.
Telling the teacher their haircut is amazing is glazing.
- Lock in (also locked in)
Focus hard and get serious.
Rare, but sometimes said before homework.
Heard in: Teacher Tapp, Aug 2026 (800+ UK teachers), Teacher Tapp, Aug 2025 (2,000+ UK teachers)
- Ohio
Meme word for anything weird or surreal. Nothing to do with the actual place.
"This lesson is so Ohio."
- Rage bait
Content made on purpose to wind people up. Oxford's 2025 Word of the Year.
Your kid leaving one pea on the plate might count.
Heard in: Oxford Word of the Year 2025, Teacher Tapp, Aug 2026 (800+ UK teachers)
- Rizz
Charm, especially flirting ability.
Mostly used about footballers and other kids' big brothers.
Heard in: Teacher Tapp, Aug 2026 (800+ UK teachers), Teacher Tapp, Aug 2025 (2,000+ UK teachers)
- Sigma
Someone independent, confident and unbothered.
Said with total seriousness by someone who still needs help with their shoelaces.
Heard in: Teacher Tapp, Aug 2025 (2,000+ UK teachers), Teacher Tapp, Aug 2026 (800+ UK teachers)
- Skibidi
Nonsense word from the Skibidi Toilet YouTube animations. Can mean anything.
Good, bad, a greeting, a full sentence. All skibidi.
Heard in: Teacher Tapp, Aug 2026 (800+ UK teachers), Teacher Tapp, Aug 2025 (2,000+ UK teachers)
- Slay (also ate)
Did something brilliantly or looked great.
"Mum, your roast potatoes ate." Take the win.
Heard in: Teacher Tapp, Aug 2026 (800+ UK teachers), Teacher Tapp, Aug 2025 (2,000+ UK teachers)
- Unc
Short for uncle. Someone older and out of touch.
You. It means you.
Heard in: Teacher Tapp, Aug 2026 (800+ UK teachers), Irish Examiner: the most searched slang words
Worth a quiet word
These three aren't jokes. You don't need to panic if you hear them, but it's worth a calm chat about where they come from.
- Mogging (also mogged)
Outshining someone, usually on looks: height, jawline, physique. It comes from online looksmaxxing forums and is often used to rank people by appearance.
Sources: Teacher Tapp, Aug 2026 (800+ UK teachers), Black America Web: mogging and looksmaxxing explained
- Looksmaxxing (also mewing)
Trying to maximise your looks by any means, from skincare to surgery. Mewing is a jaw posture trick from the same corner of the internet. It can feed unhealthy comparison, especially in boys.
Sources: Teacher Tapp, Aug 2026 (800+ UK teachers), Black America Web: mogging and looksmaxxing explained
- Gooning
Started in adult online communities as a word for prolonged masturbation. Some kids now use it to mean "obsessed with something" without knowing where it came from. Worth knowing before you hear it at tea.
Sources: Teacher Tapp, Aug 2026 (800+ UK teachers), Irish Examiner: the most searched slang words
How we pick the words
Only words that UK teachers report hearing in classrooms, or that Oxford University Press has shortlisted, make it in. We don't guess, and we update the list as new words take over. Slang dies fast, so if a word drops out of the surveys, it drops off this page.