'Friendslop' Added to the Collins Dictionary, Beaten to Word of the Year by 'Mogging'

Friendslop has been mogged hard by mogging. Friendslop is chopped, and mogging is sigma. It’s cooked, and mogging has been hard mewing in its looksmaxxing era. One is sus and the other is aura farming.

You might not like it, but that’s what language looks like these days. The Collins dictionary has added a range of new terms from gen alpha slang, including “mogging” — Collins’ word of the year — and “friendslop,” a video game term used to describe a new wave of mess-about-with-your-pals co-op games.

“friendslop (ˈfrɛndˌslɒp) noun a type of low-budget, independently produced video game, designed to be played casually with a group of friends,” is the official new dictionary definition.

It joins words such as “fricy,” which apparently means a food that’s both fruity and spicy. And also the less fun “P(doom)” — (ˈpiːˌduːm) an estimation of the probability that AI will bring about the collapse of human civilization. Lovely.

If you don’t know what mogging …