It started with voodoo, got a shout-out in a Men At Work hit, and now perfectly captures our age of anxiety and ghosting.

"67," pronounced "six seven," spread from a rap song, through sports and social media, to classrooms and homes across the U.S. But even the artist who coined it struggles to define it.

Dictionary.com, a U.S. online dictionary platform, has selected “67 (six-seven)” as its 2025 Word of the Year. The term is an interjection used by teenagers to express camaraderie and sustain ...