“I have negative rizz,” one of my guy friends declared over pancakes one Saturday morning. It was a bleary-eyed brunch—the kind where you’re still half-drunk from the night before—when he threw out ...

Dictionary publishers Merriam-Webster and Oxford University Press have announced their picks for word of the year. Merriam-Webster picked authentic. It means “not false or imitation” and “real” or ...

It’s hard out here for people in the dating scene. You’ve spent what feels like hours strategizing what video prompt to use on your Hinge profile. Maybe you’re still working on your go-to Bumble ...

Rizz is short for “charisma,” and it simply means an ability to charm and woo a person. It’s pronounced, well, rizz, just like it’s spelled. The term found its way into teen slang through TikTok and ...

"Rizz," a playful twist on "charisma," emerged from the vibrant online spaces of black African-American Gen Z. Streamer Kai Cenat is credited with propelling it into the spotlight, using it on Twitch ...

Many in Gen-Z graduated from college during the 2020 lockdown, stifling their aspirations for progress. Now emerging from the pandemic, Gen-Z displays optimism through terms such as rizz, embodying a ...

You probably already know what rizz is. Maybe you’ve got it. Maybe your new situationship thinks they do. But for anyone just catching up—or for the people reading this to understand modern slang—rizz ...

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“I have negative rizz,” one of my guy friends declared over pancakes one Saturday morning. It was a bleary-eyed brunch—the kind where you’re still half-drunk from the night before—when he threw out ...