‘mogging’ Is The Word That’s Mogged All Others
Collins Dictionary has chosen “mogging” as its 2026 word of the year. It’s a term you will almost certainly hear repeatedly from your niece or nephew at Thanksgiving. It means to outshine or outclass someone or something.
Use it in a sentence: If you think this story is better than the one above it, that means Sam is a victim of story-mogging.
Why now? Collins said it wanted to appease the mean teens that hang out in front of its offices saw a 210% increase in the word’s usage in 2026.
Language of origin: The dictionary traces mogging back to the acronym AMOG (Alpha Male of the Group). That morphed into mogging and circulated in bodybuilding communities in the 2010s, before being popularized in recent years by manosphere and looksmaxxing types like the influencer Clavicular.
Wait, what does “maxxing” mean? Oh, sorry, that’s the Dictionary.com word of the year, and is used to convey doing something with maximum effort.
Other words on the Collins shortlist include: Friendslop (low-budget, multiplayer video games), ghost jobs (job posts for openings that don’t exist), bixie (a hairstyle that combines a bob and pixie cut), and P(doom) (a mathematical shorthand to show the chances that AI will kill us all).—DL
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