When you get a cancer screening, you may hear your doctor use phrases and words that are new to you. If you don’t know what they mean, it can be hard to understand what’s happening when you get one of ...

Definition: "6-7" is less of a slang with meaning than a meaningless response.

What does 'mid' mean? Think: a lukewarm bowl of mac-and-cheese or a three-star hotel, says Kelly Elizabeth Wright, a postdoctoral research fellow in language sciences at Virginia Tech.

NGL, sometimes slang terms convey what we mean more than the original words or phrases ever could. Take that one, for example. NGL is shorthand for “not gonna lie,” and if we had written it out fully, ...

One word has become unavoidable on the campaign trail — woke. But what does it really mean and where does it come from? The word has a long and serious history in Black culture.