Gen Z slang evolves faster than most parents—and honestly, even most twenty-somethings—can keep up with. Just when you’ve learned what “rizz” means, there’s a new phrase taking over TikTok, Discord chats, and text threads. Case in point: “67.” It’s the latest viral term teens are using to describe, well, a vibe. And, it’s become so popular that Dictionary.com just crowned “67” its 2025 Word of the Year, calling it a “linguistic time capsule” of Gen Z’s chaotic, playful humor.
So what exactly does it mean? To find out, we turned to the experts themselves — two members of our SheKnows Teen Council, 16-year-olds Clive and Gary — to break it down.
SheKnows: So what is six-seven?
Gary: Okay, so six-seven, to be kind of broad, it’s just two numbers that you say to be funny. It’s like in any situation, you’d be like, ‘well, how many times you do this?’ You could say ‘six, seven’.
SK: But where’d it come from? Where did it originate?
Gary: Yeah, so this rapper, a very violent artist named Skrilla, in a song about doing violent things, he says the numbers six, seven, and this basketball player named Taylen Kinney, he plays the Overtime Elite, in an interview, he says the lyric again, and it like shot off from there. It went viral.
SK: What’s the lyric exactly, if you don’t mind saying it.
Gary: “Shooter scrap mine, bro put belt right to they behind, the way they scrip I know he dying, six, seven. ”
SK: What does that mean when you hear that?
Gary: It’s just like, you know, you know. It has to be in context.
SK: But when he says it in that sentence, is he saying six out of seven? What is it?
Gary: I mean, I think he’s just saying six or seven. It’s how many times he does it’s like, six or seven.
SK: How many times was your homework late, Clive?
Clive: Six, seven.
SK: Okay, all right. So the way it took off was from music.
Gary: Yes
SK: Where do you consume the music?
Gary: I mean, when you scroll on Instagram and TikTok, or any social media platform, you see anything at that moment. This was two months ago, but it’s still relevant now. You would just hear that song over and over again, but it just blew up from the basketball player Taylen Kinney, so he’s the one who made it popular.
SK: And then you guys saw the interview where?
Gary: I saw it on TikTok, but it was also probably on Instagram.
SK: So then, how would you guys use it in a sentence?
Gary: It’s just two funny numbers. In a conversation, anytime you say how much you’ve done something, a random person would be like ‘six seven’.
SK: Clive, how did you become aware of this term?
Clive: Same as Gary. You see it everywhere. The basketball player’s kind of weird; he’s odd. Different people would ask him questions like ‘how tall are you’ or something, and then he’d be like ‘six seven’.
SK: And what if he was like, ‘How many girlfriends have you got?’
Clive and Gary: Six seven
Clive: I mean, people are just making jokes about it.
Gary: And he made a water brand out of it.
Clive: Six seven water.
Gary: I think it was only available for 67 hours.
Why “67” Is Having a Moment
Dictionary.com recently crowned “67” (pronounced “six-seeeeeeeveeeeeen”) its 2025 Word of the Year, saying it captures the humor, chaos, and creativity driving Gen Z slang. The phrase doesn’t have one fixed meaning. It can hint at uncertainty, sarcasm, or simply a “so-so” feeling. But, that flexibility is exactly what makes it so relatable online. Born from what linguists call “brainrot” slang, “67” reflects how digital culture turns nonsense into shared expression. It spread fast across TikTok and meme culture this year, outpacing other trending contenders like “aura farming,” “Gen Z stare,” “overtourism,” and “tradwife.”
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