Merriam-Webster added 1,400 words to its dictionary this year, and one of the words is Rickrolling. The transitive verb is defined as “to trick (someone) into hearing the song ‘Never Gonna Give You Up’ by English singer Rick Astley.”
The word is joined by glow-up, promposal, looksmaxxing, letterboxing. compute, California sober, Yacht Rock, superfood, trash panda, and Mandela Effect.
I don’t know if this makes us smarter as a whole or dumber. Did you know that dumb is spelled with a b? Only a dumb man who claims to have a “high IQ” does not know that.
