The Ultimate Dating Slang Survival Guide
Dating terms change as fast as relationship statuses. From breadcrumbing to zombie-ing, this glossary deciphers the wildest modern dating slang so you won’t get played.
The Dating Graveyard ☠️💀👻
😈Dating apps aren’t as bad as people claim. They’re worse.
Deleting dating apps is a rite of passage. Re-downloading Tinder? A humbling experience.
Dating apps have turned romance into a game of low-effort texting, disappearing acts, and an epidemic of men holding fish in their profile pictures. Honestly, I wouldn’t mind being that fish—because I do like a guy who knows how to reel in a good catch. 😉🎣
This is the graveyard of dating.
It always starts with hope, a cute outfit, and a decent conversation… and somehow ends with a Tinder horror story, a red flag parade, and being banned from Tinder, Bumble, AND Hinge for literally no reason. All in the middle of a cold, rainy cuffing season—which I thought had something to do with hot cops and handcuffs. Turns out, the handcuffs are the only good part—because the rest is just singles seeking temporary shelter until spring.
💀 The Dating Cycle of Doom™:
Ghosting 👻 → Zombieing 🧟♂️ → Breadcrumbing 🍞 → Love-bombing 💥 → Benching 🏀 → Haunting 👀 → Ghosting (again) 👻
The dating graveyard is a perfect circle. A never-ending loop of people vanishing, reappearing, and wasting everyone’s damn time.
Every single person out there trying to date right now just seems miserable. The apps are uninspiring, the people are defensive, and ghosting is at an all-time high. Where does dating even go from here?
At this point, the best strategy might be deleting the apps and heading to Lowe’s or Home Depot to “look confused” in the lumber aisle.
🔥 Think dating is bad now? These disasters didn’t start with Tinder and Bumble—long before swiping left, people were still getting played, scammed, and ghosted in ways that would make modern dating look tame. History’s worst love stories prove that romance has always been a crime scene.
It’s a haunted mess of bad decisions—a haunted house of horrors where we keep buying tickets. 🎟️ Grab a shovel and dig in… because dating is dead, but the stories are very much alive. 🧟♀️
Welcome to The Dating Graveyard. Proceed with caution. 💀⚰️🍸