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What does rizz mean? It started off as teen slang, and now it's in the dictionary. Merriam Webster added 690 new words to the dictionary this year, and rizz was one of them. Rizz is short for 'charisma,' and it simply means an ability to charm and woo a person. It's pronounced, well, rizz, just like it's spelled. The term found its way into teen slang through TikTok and other social media. Rizz isn't being hot — though that can be part of it.
And it's used to describe somebody who is seductive,' says Titania Jordan, Chief Parenting Office of Bark, an online monitoring company that aims to keep kids safe online and in real life, and which carefully tracks teen slang as part of its mission. Jordan Catalano had rizz . From the 'Star Wars' universe, Han Solo and Lando Calrissian have it.
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