What’s up with the “pick me” teen slang expression? According to Urban Dictionary, a pick-me girl “is a girl who seeks male validation by indirectly or directly insinuating that she is ‘not like the ...

Meredith Grey’s on-again, off-again relationship with Dr. Derek “McDreamy” Shepherd on the early seasons of Grey’s Anatomy gave us more than great TV: It also sparked one of the most enduring slang ...

I was delighted when the term “'pick me girl” sprang into popularity, as I was with other slang terms like “aura farming” and “performative male,” because they were able to succinctly identify a ...

(CNN) — Amy often picks up the latest tween terminology during middle school drop-off for her two daughters, ages 11 and 12. “They were talking about a fellow student, and how she was so annoying ...

A ‘pick-me girl’ wants nothing more than to set herself apart from other women, even if that means embracing the male gaze and denouncing the parts of herself that are inherently associated with ...