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Whether a parent, teacher, youth pastor or an innocent bystander on a sidewalk, no one has been safe from the "6-7" Gen Alpha trend sweeping across America — a viral sensation that’s now been named Dictionary.com’s 2025 Word of the Year.

"Few slang terms have captured the cultural mood of 2025 quite like ‘6 7,’" said Steve Johnson, Ph.D., director of lexicography for the Dictionary Media Group at IXL Learning.

"It's part inside joke, part social signal and part performance. When people say it, they're not just repeating a meme; they're shouting a feeling. It's one of the first Words of the Year that works as an interjection, a burst of energy that spreads and connects people long before anyone agrees on what it actually mean

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