Posted on 10/30/2025 11:52:45 AM PDT by Red Badger
Dictionary.com has named "67" (pronounced sik-sehh-vin) as the 2025 Word of the Year.
Not joking.
https://t.co/UXHZisA5Bw names ‘67’ as the 2025 Word of the Year. pic.twitter.com/VxpXjmeRFu— Pop Base (@PopBase) October 29, 2025
A number has been named Word of the Year -- and it's not even allowed to be pronounced "sixty-seven."
the alphabet finding out that a number won “word of the year” pic.twitter.com/ugfatdn70j https://t.co/KRKXt9cuok— wiLL (@willfulchaos) October 29, 2025
You're supposed to do this when you say "67":
I gotta send it over to Dictionary.com for an explanation for why they chose 67.
But what does 67 mean?
Perhaps the most defining feature of 67 is that it's impossible to define. It's meaningless, ubiquitous, and nonsensical. In other words, it has all the hallmarks of brainrot. It's the logical endpoint of being perpetually online, scrolling endlessly, consuming content fed to users by algorithms trained by other algorithms. And what are we left with in the wake of this relentless sensory overload? 67. Still, it remains meaningful to the people who use it because of the connection it fosters. 67 shows the speed at which a new word can rocket around the world as a rising generation enters the global conversation.
How about the 67 origin story:
The origin of this most modern use of 67 is thought to be a song called 'Doot Doot (6 7)' by Skrilla. (This is an opportune moment to mention that you may also see it written as 6 7, 6-7, or six-seven, but the most important thing is to never pronounce it as 'sixty-seven.') It was quickly reinforced by viral TikToks featuring basketball players and a young boy who will forevermore be known as the '67 Kid.'
Here he is:
VIDEO AT LINK..................
Parents, if you wanna throw your kids off, respond to a "67" with a "forty-one."
pic.twitter.com/K77C6VbCYX— Davy Jones (@itsNTBmedia) October 30, 2025
(I don't know if this is actually cool, but at least you'll look equally as dumb as your child did when he said "67.")
Guys, I don't know why this whole 67 thing became a thing ... but, uhh, it's a thing. And Dictionary.com named it the Word of the Year!
Dumbest thing I will read all day.
Pretty sure it's a hymn.
“Man’s Search for Meaning”
What a great book.
I am old...
My Beavis and Butthead level of mental maturity and sense of humor still makes jokes and comments about the number two up from that one…
Let’s not be L7!
I wonder if the author thinks ‘23 skidoo’ was brain rot? Wiki says it has been described as “perhaps the first truly national fad expression and one of the most popular fad expressions to appear in the U.S”.
It’s been around since the very early 1900s, long before anyone had a search engine result to scroll...
Recent phonosemantic analyses suggest that the youth pronunciation sik-sehh-vin embodies a collective intuition of algebraic purity. The slight voicing break between sik and sehh—a micro-hesitation observable in nearly 82 percent of recordings—functions as an audible analogue of the discontinuity between unique and non-unique factorization domains. In uttering the term, speakers unconsciously replicate the liminal boundary that makes 67 a Heegner number: the final stable field before arithmetic structure dissolves into class-number turbulence. To dismiss this as coincidence would be to underestimate the precision with which popular culture encodes number theory in the guise of linguistic drift.
— From ChatGPT, with just a little encouragement from me. In retrospect, the connection to Heegner numbers seems rather obvious. Doesn’t it?
5 minutes I’ll never get back.
Popular with people who would not be able to count from one to sixty-seven.
Your quote from wikihahahahapedia is disturbingly incomplete. The rest of the wiki article ascribes meaning to the phrase, specifically to leave a situation quickly (voluntarily or not).
6-7, on the other hand, appears to have no meaning at all.
I thought the answer was 42.
But it’s still made-up slang, and they’re not even sure how it came to be.
Words are made up all the time. English itself is a very mixed-up language.
The meaning of “67” as a slang term is that it is largely nonsensical. The term, also pronounced “six seven,” functions primarily as an inside joke and meme used by Generation Alpha and younger teenagers on social media and in schools.
“67” was named the 2025 Word of the Year by Dictionary.com, which acknowledged its popularity even without a fixed definition. Its very meaninglessness is part of the point. Does that mean 69 is too?
“Sixes and Sevens” is a British expression meaning a condition of confusion or disarray.
Like aces and eights?
Sure.
They're made up in order to convey meaning.
When they convey no meaning, they're gibberish. Blather. Drivel. Evidence of brain rot.
Consider the ramblings of, for example, Sheila Jackson Lee. She(?) uses established words, but with them conveys no meaning.
"Six-Seven" is similar: established words used to convey no meaning.
"23-Skidoo" exemplified coining a word or phrase to convey a particular meaning. A century hence, the meaning has largely been forgotten, but so has the phrase.
Yes, I’ve heard people say someone is ‘at sixes and sevens’.
Another English expression I like is ‘needs must’. Removed from the fuller expression “needs must when the devil drives” it’s not as clear but still manages to give a sense of it’s meaning.
It’s got more than three cords it must be jazz.
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