Sitting round a campfire with friends one night when I was much younger (and less wise) than now, I watched the boy I liked whip out his guitar, point at me and announce, ‘This one’s for you.’ Then, ...

Many of us are familiar with the jokes about "whipped" husbands or phrases like "nice guys finish last." But these "nice guys" now have a new insult to contend with: the controversial slang term "simp ...

One man’s heartened devotion and defence of a woman involved in a gruesome murder has earned himself the derogatory label of being a simp. The woman in question is 24-year-old Natalie Siow who became ...

Editor’s note: After we first published this story in 2021, we received reader feedback about the term’s derivation and use in pop culture. We updated the story to reflect those additional details.

AS if keeping up with millennial humor and memes were not hard enough, trendy words emerge daily to add to our lexicon. Simp, a popular word used by millennials and gen-Z, has taken social media by ...