The buzz behind ‘rizz’: Exploring Oxford’s 2023 Word of the Year

From Twitch and Tom Holland, rizz, a Gen Z slang, has journeyed to the linguistic experts at Oxford University Press

Have you got the ‘rizz’? 

Does that sound baffling? We asked a few people to guess the word’s meaning. Here are a few answers we got: 

“I am feeling clueless here. What does that even mean?” 

“My honest reaction was ‘huh’? Then I became ‘ya, okay then’”

“At first, I was confused, but later it seemed very cool.” 

“I feel our generation is willing to say anything to be cool. Rizz is an example. Even that weird Delulu.”

“I liked how it has a ‘zzz’ at the end.”