#Sip definition slang update#

Most of the terms and symbols have emerged as a kind of clever shorthand for fast-moving fingers and have no dangerous or risky meaning attached. We publish this list with an important reminder: Teen texting slang isn’t inherently bad or created with an intent to deceive or harm. Don’t forget to protect your devices with McAfee Mobile Security. This time we’ve added emojis (scroll to bottom) since those powerful little graphic symbols have singlehandedly transformed human communication, as we know it.

#Sip definition slang update#

It expands, contracts and specific acronyms and symbols (emojis) can change in meaning entirely over time, which is why we update this list every periodically. And while the slang is perfectly understood peer-to-peer, it has parents googling like crazy to decipher it.

In all this talking a language, or code, emerges just as it has for every generation only today that language is in acronyms, hashtags, and emojis.

And they are talking most of the time - tap, tap, tap - much like background music.

They talk on their phones via chat, social comments, snaps, posts, tweets, and direct messages. What adults call texting, kids call talking.