Before and After
A princess cursed into a hundred-year nap now competes in a contest judged on beauty and talent.
Sleeping Beauty Pageant
This slang phrase for zoning out or scrolling mindlessly on low-quality content became Oxford's 2024 Word of the Year.
Brainrot
An overweight feline
Fat Cat
This cranial nerve, the tenth, is responsible for parasympathetic control of the heart, lungs, and gut.
Vagus Nerve
This energy drink, launched in Austria in 1987, was inspired by a Thai tonic and famously claims to "give you wings."
Red Bull
A lingerie chain known for its "Angels" that picks names at random to give Christmas presents.
Victoria's Secret Santa
This 2023 trend involved people jokingly comparing an obsession to men's supposed obsession with a historical empire.
Roman Empire
An unhappy young man
Sad Lad
A triad of hypercoaguability, endothelial injury, and blood stasis promoting blood clot formation.
Virchow's triad
This bittering agent, once used to treat malaria, gives tonic water its distinctive taste — and makes it glow under UV light.
Quinine
Time-travelling alien who pilots a blue police box, plus the classic quiz show where contestants use lifelines to win big cash.
Doctor Who wants to be a millionaire
This slang term, Oxford's 2023 Word of the Year, describes natural charm or charisma, especially in a romantic context
Rizz
A cunning fellow.
This electrolyte abnormality produces peaked T-waves and widened QRS complexes on ECG.
Hyperkalaemia
This drink's name is Japanese for "boiling tea," and it's traditionally whisked into a froth using a bamboo whisk called a chasen.
Matcha
A galactic saga set a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away collides with a 15th-century English conflict fought over flowers.
This 2024 Charli XCX album and its lime-green aesthetic defined an entire cultural "summer."
Brat Summer
A massive ocean-dwelling mammal that's dangerously thin.
Frail Whale
This eponymous sign describes rebound tenderness in the right iliac fossa, classically associated with appendicitis.
Rovsing's sign (or McBurney's point tenderness)
In 1929, this soda was renamed from "Bib-Label Lithiated Lemon-Lime Soda" — its original formula actually contained a mood-stabilizing lithium citrate until 1950.
7 Up
Beloved tent-based baking competition hosted by Paul Hollywood, plus living somewhere with no internet, phone signal, or electricity.
The Great British Bake Off the Grid
This German phrase meaning "you are good enough," paired with the phrase "bowl bowl bowl," became an unlikely viral trend in 2026.
Du Bist gut genug.
A rabbit's successor.
A clinical sign where tapping lightly on the cheek in front of the ear causes the facial muscles on that same side to twitch
Chvostek sign
This rubbery culture of bacteria and yeast, often called "the mother," is what ferments sweet tea into kombucha.
Scoby