The word means to optimize an activity, pursuit, or aspect of one's life, and internet searches for it have skyrocketed this ...

Up with KREM's Jenny Power educates Tim Pham on Dictionary.com's Word of the Year.

"Maxxing" is Dicitionary.com's 2026 Word of the Year because there have been so many different "maxxing" trends on social ...

Maxxing. Short for "maximizing," the term "can be used on its own or added to the end of any word to convey you're doing ...

The term "maxxing" is used as an adjective, adverb, noun and verb by many in Gen Z and Gen Alpha to describe an emphasis in ...

The viral social media trend "maxxing" has earned its stripes as Dictionary.com's 2026 Word of the Year.

The slang has spread from incel forums to everyday conversation.

Dictionary.com on Monday named the word "maxxing" as its 2026 Word of the Year, defining it as "a word that refers to the ...

Searches for “maxxing” and its variations rose in 2026, according to Dictionary.com, leading it to be named Word of the Year. Other words on Dictionary.com’s 2026 shortlist included “affordability,” ...

An Argentine judge ordered the Royal Spanish Academy to drop its definition of “Jewish” as “miserly or usurious” in 2024, and ...

Dictionary.com named “maxxing,” slang for doing something to the fullest, its 2026 Word of the Year as the term spread across ...

Got a headache trying to optimise every part of your life? There's a word for that: "maxxing".The term refers to maximising ...