Sorry, parents and teachers of middle schoolers: your days of hearing "67" shouted randomly are far from over.

Dictionary.com on Wednesday announced it has chosen "67" — pronounced "six seven," not sixty-seven — as its 2025 Word of the Year.

67 is an ambiguous slang term made popular by Gen Alpha on social media and in schools and friend groups across the country. Its pervasiveness is what stuck out to the team selecting the word of the year, Steve Johnson, director of lexicography for the Dictionary Media Group at IXL Learning, told CBS News.

"Something that you would have thought would have gone away, it just kept on growing larger and larger, snowballing into kind of like a cultural phenomenon," Johnson said.

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