23 WTF Dating Terms That Define What Relationships Have Become For This Generation

Adrija Sen

Fuckboys, DTF, Netflix and Chill. These are some of the terms we have all heard (unfortunately) in the dating world today, especially if you have been anywhere near online dating. But there are actually a lot more of these terms, that we can only call innovative, that we millennials have made up to explain our eccentric and sometimes downright ridiculous behaviour in romantic and sexual scenarios. What are these you ask?

For the sake of our readers, and to make you lose the semblance of faith you may have had in this generation, here are 23 dating terms we love (no, we really really don’t):

Have you done these to your date? Or been at the other end of these dating scenarios?

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