stonks

In the midst of an ongoing, whirlwind saga involving video games retailer GameStop, a Reddit forum known as r/WallStreetBets, and multiple hedge funds, one word has been on the tip of everyone's tongue: "stonks."

An intentional (and admittedly pretty funny) misspelling of the word "stocks," stonks started as a meme in the latter half of the 2010s and has become a fixture online since. As Slate's Jordan Weissmann wrote, "stonks" has become a popular word in the discussion around internet-fueled boosting of the unlikely stocks such as GameStop.