Urban Dictionary

With the help of the Oxford English Dictionary and the debatably reliable Urban Dictionary, here are some relics of the early aughts to steep you in nostalgia and help you remember a time before you had to worry about essay deadlines and internship applications.

Lacking a pithy term for exchanging explicit instant messages? Fear not; English quickly conjures up “sexting,” and voilà: The new word, equally a noun or verb, neatly synthesizes two existing words and is nigh impossible to misunderstand.

Doggo memes have literally created their own language, and for the most part, people between the ages of 12 and 30 understand and sometimes use this new language.

Merriam-Webster says that the earliest written or printed use of “pregame” was in 2004, but it wasn’t until this past month that the word made its permanent mark on the dictionary in its newest, college-friendly form.

I never felt too out of place until one fateful day, when I came back to my residence hall after a particularly long walk up a particularly steep hill and exclaimed to my roommates, "Man, these shoe bites are killing me!"