I nominate “clapback”. I usually see it used in Millennial-pandering clickbait. I want it to mean “vengefully infecting someone with gonorrhea”.
Or it could mean you get re-infected.
I doubt that you’ll get many replies to this. Most people are pretty relaxed and opened-minded about language not being exactly the same as their own dialect when they were at high school.
Oh, there’ll be plenty of replies. There’s a virtually unlimited supply of threadshitters who will drop in to point out that we’re not allowed to find anything annoying because language is constantly changing.
You’ve been here long enough to know better than this. 
How many arguments have we gotten over “could care less” vs “couldn’t care less” and comparative and superlative uses of “unique” or the hyperbolic use of “literally”?
I was kidding. This thread will be on page 10 by this time tomorrow.
Ah! My sarcasmometer is on the fritz! Time to change the batteries.
I nominate thicc as most eye-roll inducing of late.
Never heard of it. Doesn’t mean it isn’t annoying.
Dennis
Where would I run into this word?
I looked it up, and the source I read made it sound like it has transcended all demographic boundaries to be a household word everywhere. “Clapback” certainly has not – it is still narrowly-used jargon, at best.
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For those wondering:
Clapback: literally “a return of gunfire” in hip-hop/rap parlance, the term has widened to mean “a cutting verbal comeback” or even “a cutting comeback tweet/post”.
Thicc: a hip respelling of “thick” when specifically referring to a woman’s figure.
Antifa
Recreate, as in, to engage in recreational activities.
I’d say if it’s surfaced on Fox News it has transcended demographic boundaries, i.e. Hamburger Helper Claps Back At Twitter User’s Insult. People no longer respond to social media slights, that’s too boring. Now “clapping back” is the hip thing to do.
But I have this nagging feeling that you’re right, it may be an artificial phenomenon that gets perpetuated because it works well as clickbait. Maybe nobody’s actually saying “clapback” but everybody will click on a link to find out who Nicki Minaj clapped back at, and why.
does “woke” qualify, or was that from last year?
It’s still annoying this year.
Amazeballs? But that’s like, what, at least five years old by now? So maybe not.
Not sure how many of these are from this year (I don’t follow this stuff with any degree of passion), but a few I’d like to toss in:
Still not sure what “woke” even means. Self-aware? Perceptive? Skeptical?
Never liked “neckbeard”. Did we really need another term for “snob”?
Or “humblebrag”. Sounds like a German cheese.
“hipster” may have had some relevance before Twitter really blew up; now it’s just outlived its usefulness.
“cuck” can just die in a fire.
“social justice warrior” is good for making jokes about social justice bards, rogues, clerics, etc. Otherwise it can just die in a fire.
If it’s bugging you this year, you can nominate it. Here, I’ll second.
But yes, I remember this as a relic of 2013, a year that fully grown adults started acting hip by talking like tweens on Facebook. Totes magoats (sp?)
Oh yes.
“Bae” is one I could do without, thanks.
A few that I agree with listed already, so let me say that I still think “hella” is the laziest and stupidest sounding slang word around, eclipsing even “brah”.