{
  "name": "Swipelexicon glossary (en)",
  "locale": "en",
  "generated": "2026-10-12T13:00:14.746Z",
  "attribution": "Definitions by Swipelexicon. Reuse with a link to the term's url.",
  "count": 44,
  "terms": [
    {
      "slug": "3-3-3-rule",
      "term": "3-3-3 rule",
      "means": "Checking a new connection at three set points",
      "description": "The 3-3-3 rule is a dating rule of thumb: check how a new connection is going at three set points. Versions disagree. The most repeated says three dates, three weeks, three months. Others say three hours, three dates, three weeks, or three days, three dates, three weeks. We found no study that tests any of them.",
      "url": "https://www.swipelexicon.com/en/glossary/3-3-3-rule/",
      "updated": "2026-10-05",
      "added": "2026-10-04",
      "related": [
        "talking-stage",
        "situationship",
        "slow-dating",
        "dating-app-burnout",
        "hard-launch"
      ]
    },
    {
      "slug": "beige-flags",
      "term": "Beige flags",
      "means": "A quirk that is neither good nor bad",
      "description": "A beige flag is a habit or trait in a partner that is oddly specific but neither good nor bad. They order the same dish everywhere. They narrate the dog's thoughts. A red flag changes how they treat you. A beige one does not. Oxford's 2023 shortlist recorded two senses: boring, and harmlessly quirky. The second is now usual.",
      "url": "https://www.swipelexicon.com/en/glossary/beige-flags/",
      "updated": "2026-10-03",
      "added": "2026-10-03",
      "related": [
        "red-flags",
        "green-flags",
        "the-ick",
        "rizz",
        "situationship"
      ]
    },
    {
      "slug": "breadcrumbing",
      "term": "Breadcrumbing",
      "means": "Sporadic contact with no intention of meeting",
      "description": "Breadcrumbing is giving someone just enough attention to keep them interested, with no intention of meeting or committing. A like, a \"hey stranger\", a plan floated and never booked. The person never disappears, which is what separates it from ghosting. They just never arrive.",
      "url": "https://www.swipelexicon.com/en/glossary/breadcrumbing/",
      "updated": "2026-10-05",
      "added": "2026-10-03",
      "related": [
        "ghosting",
        "orbiting",
        "delulu",
        "situationship",
        "paperclipping"
      ],
      "translation": "https://www.swipelexicon.com/sv/ordlista/breadcrumbing/"
    },
    {
      "slug": "casual-dating",
      "term": "Casual dating",
      "means": "Dating without agreeing to be exclusive or heading anywhere in particular",
      "description": "Casual dating is going on dates with someone without agreeing to be exclusive or to aim for a relationship. Sex may or may not be part of it. The word covers three different deals, from seeing several people at once to taking one person slowly, so the useful question is which casual someone means.",
      "url": "https://www.swipelexicon.com/en/glossary/casual-dating/",
      "updated": "2026-10-06",
      "added": "2026-10-05",
      "related": [
        "situationship",
        "fwb",
        "talking-stage",
        "roster-dating",
        "dtr"
      ],
      "translation": "https://www.swipelexicon.com/sv/ordlista/casual/"
    },
    {
      "slug": "catfishing",
      "term": "Catfishing",
      "means": "Dating someone under an identity that is not theirs",
      "description": "Catfishing is dating someone online under a borrowed or invented identity: someone else's photos, or a person who does not exist. That is the dictionary sense. People also use the word for someone who looks different from their photos, which is closer to kittenfishing. Its signs are reasons to check, not proof, and the law has its own page.",
      "url": "https://www.swipelexicon.com/en/glossary/catfishing/",
      "updated": "2026-10-05",
      "added": "2026-10-05",
      "related": [
        "kittenfishing",
        "red-flags",
        "love-bombing",
        "future-faking"
      ],
      "translation": "https://www.swipelexicon.com/sv/ordlista/catfishing/"
    },
    {
      "slug": "cookie-jarring",
      "term": "Cookie jarring",
      "means": "Being kept in reserve while someone pursues their first choice",
      "description": "Cookie jarring is keeping someone in reserve: texting them, seeing them now and then, letting them think something is building, while you chase the person you actually want. The person in the jar does not know they are in it. That is the difference from dating around, where everyone knows there are others.",
      "url": "https://www.swipelexicon.com/en/glossary/cookie-jarring/",
      "updated": "2026-10-05",
      "added": "2026-10-03",
      "related": [
        "situationship",
        "breadcrumbing",
        "orbiting",
        "roster-dating",
        "cuffing-season"
      ]
    },
    {
      "slug": "cuffing-season",
      "term": "Cuffing season",
      "means": "Pairing up for the cold months",
      "description": "Cuffing season is the stretch from fall to early spring when single people are said to pair up for the cold months, then drift apart when the weather warms. A situationship has no end date. Cuffing season comes with one built in. Search interest peaks in October and November. Whether people actually pair up more has not been measured.",
      "url": "https://www.swipelexicon.com/en/glossary/cuffing-season/",
      "updated": "2026-10-04",
      "added": "2026-10-03",
      "related": [
        "situationship",
        "talking-stage",
        "ghosting",
        "love-bombing",
        "zombieing"
      ],
      "translation": "https://www.swipelexicon.com/sv/ordlista/cuffing-season/"
    },
    {
      "slug": "dating-app-burnout",
      "term": "Dating app burnout",
      "means": "Exhaustion, cynicism and a sense of pointlessness from app dating",
      "description": "Dating app burnout is when swiping stops feeling like a way to meet people and starts feeling like a second job you are failing at. Researchers describe three parts: exhaustion, a sense that it is not working, and detachment. It is not a clinical diagnosis.",
      "url": "https://www.swipelexicon.com/en/glossary/dating-app-burnout/",
      "updated": "2026-10-04",
      "added": "2026-10-03",
      "related": [
        "ghosting",
        "breadcrumbing",
        "talking-stage",
        "slow-dating",
        "roster-dating"
      ]
    },
    {
      "slug": "ddf",
      "term": "DDF",
      "means": "Drug and disease free, a personal-ads claim",
      "description": "DDF means drug and disease free, a personal-ads abbreviation now on hookup apps. It is a claim about the writer and a request to the reader. HIV language guides list \"clean\" as inappropriate and \"sexually transmitted disease\" as outdated, and a result dates from the test. CDC advises testing and sharing results, so ask when, and for what.",
      "url": "https://www.swipelexicon.com/en/glossary/ddf/",
      "updated": "2026-10-06",
      "added": "2026-10-06",
      "related": [
        "fwb",
        "casual-dating",
        "enm",
        "open-relationship",
        "dtr"
      ]
    },
    {
      "slug": "delulu",
      "term": "Delulu",
      "means": "Delusional, often on purpose",
      "description": "Delulu is slang for delusional, usually about a crush or a relationship, and usually said with a wink. It began as a K-pop fandom jab at fans who believed they would end up with an idol. Since around 2023 it also means hopeful on purpose, as in \"delulu is the solulu\". Denial is not self-aware. Delulu usually is.",
      "url": "https://www.swipelexicon.com/en/glossary/delulu/",
      "updated": "2026-10-04",
      "added": "2026-10-03",
      "related": [
        "situationship",
        "talking-stage",
        "breadcrumbing",
        "red-flags",
        "love-bombing"
      ],
      "translation": "https://www.swipelexicon.com/sv/ordlista/delulu/"
    },
    {
      "slug": "double-texting",
      "term": "Double texting",
      "means": "Sending a second message before the first one has been answered",
      "description": "Double texting is sending a second message before the other person has answered the first; in dating it usually means following up after a silence, not splitting one thought into two bubbles. One new message after a real gap is ordinary; a second ask is not. Three unanswered in a row is a pattern.",
      "url": "https://www.swipelexicon.com/en/glossary/double-texting/",
      "updated": "2026-10-05",
      "added": "2026-10-05",
      "related": [
        "dry-texting",
        "ghosting",
        "talking-stage",
        "breadcrumbing",
        "red-flags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "slug": "dry-dating",
      "term": "Dry dating",
      "means": "Going on dates without alcohol",
      "description": "Dry dating is going on dates without alcohol: coffee instead of cocktails, a walk instead of a wine bar. It is a choice about the date, not about who you are. Sober dating means one of you does not drink, often for a good reason. Dry dating means the plan itself has no drinks in it.",
      "url": "https://www.swipelexicon.com/en/glossary/dry-dating/",
      "updated": "2026-10-05",
      "added": "2026-10-04",
      "related": [
        "dating-app-burnout",
        "green-flags",
        "red-flags",
        "slow-dating",
        "dry-texting"
      ]
    },
    {
      "slug": "dry-texting",
      "term": "Dry texting",
      "means": "Replying in short, flat messages that give nothing to answer",
      "description": "Dry texting is replying with as little as possible: one word, no question back, nothing to answer. Someone who texts everyone that way is not dry texting you. That is their style. It becomes a signal when it changes or happens only with you. If you are the dry texter, the fix is one detail and one question.",
      "url": "https://www.swipelexicon.com/en/glossary/dry-texting/",
      "updated": "2026-10-05",
      "added": "2026-10-05",
      "related": [
        "talking-stage",
        "breadcrumbing",
        "ghosting",
        "orbiting",
        "dry-dating"
      ]
    },
    {
      "slug": "dtr",
      "term": "DTR (define the relationship)",
      "means": "Define the relationship: the talk about what you are",
      "description": "DTR stands for 'define the relationship': the conversation in which two people dating say what they are, usually whether they are exclusive and whether to call it a relationship. As a verb: 'we need to DTR.' Exclusive and 'in a relationship' are separate questions, and one talk can settle one without the other.",
      "url": "https://www.swipelexicon.com/en/glossary/dtr/",
      "updated": "2026-10-05",
      "added": "2026-10-05",
      "related": [
        "situationship",
        "talking-stage",
        "casual-dating",
        "hard-launch",
        "soft-launch"
      ]
    },
    {
      "slug": "emotional-cheating",
      "term": "Emotional cheating",
      "means": "A hidden bond that takes a partner's place",
      "description": "Emotional cheating is a close bond outside your relationship that is hidden from your partner or takes their place. Nothing physical is required; emotional affair and emotional infidelity are older names. A 2026 UK survey found 52% and a 2013 US poll 60% calling a deep emotional connection cheating; in a 2019 US survey that said secret, 76% did.",
      "url": "https://www.swipelexicon.com/en/glossary/emotional-cheating/",
      "updated": "2026-10-06",
      "added": "2026-10-05",
      "related": [
        "micro-cheating",
        "dtr",
        "orbiting",
        "monkey-branching",
        "red-flags"
      ],
      "translation": "https://www.swipelexicon.com/sv/ordlista/emotionell-otrohet/"
    },
    {
      "slug": "enm",
      "term": "ENM (ethical non-monogamy)",
      "means": "Non-monogamy that everyone involved knows about and has agreed to",
      "description": "ENM stands for ethical non-monogamy, an umbrella for relationships where everyone involved knows and agrees. Researchers say CNM, consensual non-monogamy. Hinge and Tinder made non-monogamy a profile option in 2022 and 2023. How common it is depends on what you count: 34% of 1,000 US adult citizens polled by YouGov in 2023 called their ideal something other than complete monogamy.",
      "url": "https://www.swipelexicon.com/en/glossary/enm/",
      "updated": "2026-10-06",
      "added": "2026-10-06",
      "related": [
        "open-relationship",
        "casual-dating",
        "fwb",
        "roster-dating",
        "dtr"
      ]
    },
    {
      "slug": "fwb",
      "term": "Friends with benefits (FWB)",
      "means": "Friends who also have sex, by agreement",
      "description": "Friends with benefits, or FWB, is an arrangement where two friends have sex without being a couple. The friendship is the point, the sex is extra, and both people have said so out loud. That agreement separates it from a situationship, where nobody has said anything, and from a hookup, where there was no friendship to begin with.",
      "url": "https://www.swipelexicon.com/en/glossary/fwb/",
      "updated": "2026-10-06",
      "added": "2026-10-03",
      "related": [
        "situationship",
        "talking-stage",
        "cuffing-season",
        "ghosting",
        "red-flags"
      ],
      "translation": "https://www.swipelexicon.com/sv/ordlista/fwb/"
    },
    {
      "slug": "future-faking",
      "term": "Future faking",
      "means": "Promising a future to get something now",
      "description": "Future faking is promising a shared future (trips, moving in, meeting the family) to get something now: sex, money, patience, or that you stay. Big early talk is not the tell, because excited people talk big too. The tell is what the promise asks of you now, and whether anything near it has a date.",
      "url": "https://www.swipelexicon.com/en/glossary/future-faking/",
      "updated": "2026-10-05",
      "added": "2026-10-05",
      "related": [
        "love-bombing",
        "breadcrumbing",
        "red-flags",
        "situationship",
        "talking-stage",
        "dtr"
      ]
    },
    {
      "slug": "ghosting",
      "term": "Ghosting",
      "means": "Ending contact by going silent",
      "description": "Ghosting is ending a relationship, or a conversation that might have become one, by going silent with no explanation. No reply, no goodbye, no block needed. A slow reply still arrives, and a polite no is not ghosting. A ghost just stops, and leaves you to decode the silence.",
      "url": "https://www.swipelexicon.com/en/glossary/ghosting/",
      "updated": "2026-10-05",
      "added": "2026-10-03",
      "related": [
        "breadcrumbing",
        "orbiting",
        "zombieing",
        "situationship",
        "dating-app-burnout"
      ],
      "translation": "https://www.swipelexicon.com/sv/ordlista/ghosting/"
    },
    {
      "slug": "green-flags",
      "term": "Green flags",
      "means": "Early signs someone is good to be with",
      "description": "A green flag in dating is a behavior that shows, over time, that someone is safe and good to be with. It is not a grand gesture. A green flag repeats, holds up when you disagree, and looks the same when nobody is watching.",
      "url": "https://www.swipelexicon.com/en/glossary/green-flags/",
      "updated": "2026-10-04",
      "added": "2026-10-03",
      "related": [
        "red-flags",
        "love-bombing",
        "the-ick",
        "beige-flags",
        "situationship"
      ],
      "translation": "https://www.swipelexicon.com/sv/ordlista/green-flags/"
    },
    {
      "slug": "hard-launch",
      "term": "Hard launch",
      "means": "Posting a new partner openly, face and name",
      "description": "A hard launch is posting a new partner openly on social media: face visible, often tagged, no guessing. It is the loud version of a soft launch, where you only hint at someone. It tells your followers you are together. It does not tell them, or you, much else.",
      "url": "https://www.swipelexicon.com/en/glossary/hard-launch/",
      "updated": "2026-10-06",
      "added": "2026-10-03",
      "related": [
        "soft-launch",
        "talking-stage",
        "situationship",
        "green-flags",
        "red-flags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "slug": "kittenfishing",
      "term": "Kittenfishing",
      "means": "A real person behind a flattering profile",
      "description": "Kittenfishing is presenting the real you with the edges smoothed: photos from a few years back, an inch or two of extra height, a job title rounded up. The person exists, and the profile is the flattering version. That is the difference from catfishing, where the identity itself is fake.",
      "url": "https://www.swipelexicon.com/en/glossary/kittenfishing/",
      "updated": "2026-10-05",
      "added": "2026-10-04",
      "related": [
        "catfishing",
        "red-flags",
        "green-flags",
        "talking-stage",
        "cookie-jarring"
      ]
    },
    {
      "slug": "left-on-read",
      "term": "Left on read",
      "means": "Having a message opened but not answered, in an app that shows it was read",
      "description": "Left on read means someone opened your message and has not replied, and the app told you so. It describes a status, not a decision. A direct question left hanging, or a change from how they usually text, starts to look like ghosting. The receipt tells you that it was opened, not why.",
      "url": "https://www.swipelexicon.com/en/glossary/left-on-read/",
      "updated": "2026-10-05",
      "added": "2026-10-05",
      "related": [
        "ghosting",
        "double-texting",
        "dry-texting",
        "orbiting",
        "talking-stage"
      ]
    },
    {
      "slug": "love-bombing",
      "term": "Love bombing",
      "means": "Overwhelming affection used to gain control",
      "description": "Love bombing is a flood of affection, attention and promises early in a relationship. It is used to make you dependent before the giver pulls back and takes control. The intensity is not the tell. Ordinary infatuation can be just as loud. The difference shows when you say no, slow down or ask for space.",
      "url": "https://www.swipelexicon.com/en/glossary/love-bombing/",
      "updated": "2026-10-05",
      "added": "2026-10-03",
      "related": [
        "red-flags",
        "green-flags",
        "breadcrumbing",
        "situationship",
        "talking-stage"
      ],
      "translation": "https://www.swipelexicon.com/sv/ordlista/love-bombing/"
    },
    {
      "slug": "ltr",
      "term": "LTR",
      "means": "Long-term relationship, the personal-ads abbreviation",
      "description": "LTR means long-term relationship. It shows up in personal ads by 1996, and Tinder, Hinge and Bumble use their own menu wording instead of the letters. In a Pew survey of 6,034 US adults in July 2022, 44% of current or recent online daters said finding a long-term partner was a major reason they were there.",
      "url": "https://www.swipelexicon.com/en/glossary/ltr/",
      "updated": "2026-10-06",
      "added": "2026-10-06",
      "related": [
        "dtr",
        "casual-dating",
        "situationship",
        "talking-stage",
        "fwb"
      ]
    },
    {
      "slug": "micro-cheating",
      "term": "Micro-cheating",
      "means": "Small acts that break what a couple expects",
      "description": "Micro-cheating means small acts that are not quite cheating but break what a couple expects: secret chats, hiding that you're taken, a dating profile kept live. Where the line sits depends on what you agreed. Surveys show people agree at the ends and split in the middle, and in the threads we read, secrecy usually tips it.",
      "url": "https://www.swipelexicon.com/en/glossary/micro-cheating/",
      "updated": "2026-10-06",
      "added": "2026-10-05",
      "related": [
        "dtr",
        "orbiting",
        "monkey-branching",
        "cookie-jarring",
        "red-flags"
      ],
      "translation": "https://www.swipelexicon.com/sv/ordlista/mikrootrohet/"
    },
    {
      "slug": "monkey-branching",
      "term": "Monkey branching",
      "means": "Lining up the next partner before you leave",
      "description": "Monkey branching, also called monkey barring, is lining up your next partner before ending your current relationship, like a monkey that keeps hold of one branch until it has the next. The overlap is the definition. Speed is not: starting something new after a breakup is rebound territory. We found no study of how these relationships end.",
      "url": "https://www.swipelexicon.com/en/glossary/monkey-branching/",
      "updated": "2026-10-05",
      "added": "2026-10-05",
      "related": [
        "rebound",
        "micro-cheating",
        "cookie-jarring",
        "orbiting",
        "situationship"
      ]
    },
    {
      "slug": "nanoship",
      "term": "Nanoship",
      "means": "A romantic moment too small to call a relationship",
      "description": "A nanoship is a romantic moment too small to call a relationship: a held glance, a running joke with the same barista, a \"good morning\" text that never becomes a date. Tinder used the word in a December 2024 press release. A crush lives in one head. A nanoship is mutual, light and expects nothing next.",
      "url": "https://www.swipelexicon.com/en/glossary/nanoship/",
      "updated": "2026-10-04",
      "added": "2026-10-04",
      "related": [
        "situationship",
        "talking-stage",
        "fwb",
        "rizz",
        "soft-launch"
      ]
    },
    {
      "slug": "negging",
      "term": "Negging",
      "means": "Backhanded compliments used to win approval",
      "description": "Negging is a compliment with a put-down built in, or a put-down passed off as a joke, meant to lower your confidence so you start working for the speaker's approval. One line is a guess, a pattern is an answer, and the cleanest test is naming it: someone teasing usually adjusts, someone negging says you can't take a joke.",
      "url": "https://www.swipelexicon.com/en/glossary/negging/",
      "updated": "2026-10-05",
      "added": "2026-10-05",
      "related": [
        "red-flags",
        "love-bombing",
        "rizz",
        "the-ick",
        "green-flags"
      ],
      "translation": "https://www.swipelexicon.com/sv/ordlista/negging/"
    },
    {
      "slug": "open-relationship",
      "term": "Open relationship",
      "means": "A couple that agrees sex with other people is allowed",
      "description": "An open relationship is one where the partners agree that sex, and sometimes romance, with other people is allowed. It is one form of ethical non-monogamy. In a 2012 US survey of 2,270 partnered adults, 4% said they were in one. The studies we read find similar satisfaction on average, and lower functioning in one-sided arrangements.",
      "url": "https://www.swipelexicon.com/en/glossary/open-relationship/",
      "updated": "2026-10-06",
      "added": "2026-10-06",
      "related": [
        "enm",
        "fwb",
        "casual-dating",
        "dtr",
        "situationship"
      ],
      "translation": "https://www.swipelexicon.com/sv/ordlista/oppet-forhallande/"
    },
    {
      "slug": "orbiting",
      "term": "Orbiting",
      "means": "Gone from your messages, still in your notifications",
      "description": "Orbiting is when someone stops replying to you but keeps watching: they view every story, like the odd post, and never send a message. Ghosting cuts all contact. Orbiting cuts the direct line and keeps the passive one open. It is ghosting with an audience, and the audience is the person who left.",
      "url": "https://www.swipelexicon.com/en/glossary/orbiting/",
      "updated": "2026-10-05",
      "added": "2026-10-03",
      "related": [
        "ghosting",
        "breadcrumbing",
        "zombieing",
        "paperclipping",
        "situationship"
      ]
    },
    {
      "slug": "paperclipping",
      "term": "Paperclipping",
      "means": "An occasional low-effort check-in to keep you on file",
      "description": "Paperclipping is when someone you dated, often an ex, pops up every so often with a low-effort message and no plan to meet. The name comes from Clippy, the Microsoft Office paperclip that appeared whether you needed it or not. Breadcrumbing is a steadier drip that hints at more. A paperclip only checks that you are still there.",
      "url": "https://www.swipelexicon.com/en/glossary/paperclipping/",
      "updated": "2026-10-03",
      "added": "2026-10-03",
      "related": [
        "breadcrumbing",
        "zombieing",
        "orbiting",
        "ghosting",
        "situationship"
      ]
    },
    {
      "slug": "pocketing",
      "term": "Pocketing",
      "means": "Being kept away from a partner's friends and family",
      "description": "Pocketing is when someone you are seeing keeps you away from their friends and family, past the point where you would expect to have met them. Also called stashing. Our rule of thumb: pocketing is about people, not posts. A partner who never posts you, but whose friends know your name, is not pocketing you.",
      "url": "https://www.swipelexicon.com/en/glossary/pocketing/",
      "updated": "2026-10-06",
      "added": "2026-10-06",
      "related": [
        "soft-launch",
        "hard-launch",
        "cookie-jarring",
        "situationship",
        "red-flags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "slug": "polyamory",
      "term": "Polyamory",
      "means": "More than one romantic relationship at a time, with everyone's knowledge",
      "description": "Polyamory means more than one romantic relationship at a time, with everyone's knowledge and consent. The word dates from 1990 to 1992. In a 2021 study of 3,438 single US adults, 10.7% had engaged in it at some point. Research compares primary and secondary partners, and since 2020 a few US cities and towns have recognized multi-partner domestic partnerships.",
      "url": "https://www.swipelexicon.com/en/glossary/polyamory/",
      "updated": "2026-10-06",
      "added": "2026-10-06",
      "related": [
        "enm",
        "open-relationship",
        "casual-dating",
        "dtr",
        "situationship"
      ],
      "translation": "https://www.swipelexicon.com/sv/ordlista/polyamori/"
    },
    {
      "slug": "rebound",
      "term": "Rebound relationship",
      "means": "New relationship before the last one is settled",
      "description": "A rebound relationship is one that starts soon after a breakup, while feelings about the ex are still unsettled; the new partner is the rebound. The research we found measured how people fared, not how long the relationships lasted. A quick start went with better personal outcomes, and with more of the ex in the new relationship.",
      "url": "https://www.swipelexicon.com/en/glossary/rebound/",
      "updated": "2026-10-05",
      "added": "2026-10-05",
      "related": [
        "situationship",
        "talking-stage",
        "breadcrumbing",
        "cookie-jarring",
        "3-3-3-rule"
      ],
      "translation": "https://www.swipelexicon.com/sv/ordlista/rebound/"
    },
    {
      "slug": "red-flags",
      "term": "Red flags",
      "means": "Early warning signs in a relationship",
      "description": "A red flag in dating is an early sign that someone treats you, or other people, in a way you would not accept later. It is a warning, not a verdict. Unlike the ick or a mismatch in taste, it is about behavior, so the test is whether it repeats and gets worse when you mention it.",
      "url": "https://www.swipelexicon.com/en/glossary/red-flags/",
      "updated": "2026-10-05",
      "added": "2026-10-03",
      "related": [
        "green-flags",
        "love-bombing",
        "the-ick",
        "beige-flags",
        "breadcrumbing"
      ],
      "translation": "https://www.swipelexicon.com/sv/ordlista/red-flags/"
    },
    {
      "slug": "rizz",
      "term": "Rizz",
      "means": "Charm, the ability to attract someone",
      "description": "Rizz is slang for charm, specifically the ability to attract someone, usually with words and usually without visibly trying. Flirting is what you do. Rizz is how well it lands, and the other person decides that. Oxford made it Word of the Year in 2023.",
      "url": "https://www.swipelexicon.com/en/glossary/rizz/",
      "updated": "2026-10-04",
      "added": "2026-10-03",
      "related": [
        "talking-stage",
        "green-flags",
        "red-flags",
        "love-bombing",
        "situationship"
      ],
      "translation": "https://www.swipelexicon.com/sv/ordlista/rizz/"
    },
    {
      "slug": "roster-dating",
      "term": "Roster dating",
      "means": "Openly dating several people at once while you decide",
      "description": "Roster dating is seeing several people at once, openly and on purpose, while you decide which one you want. The word comes from team sports, where the roster is posted for everyone to read. If the others do not know there is a list, it is cookie jarring. It is a deciding phase, not a relationship structure.",
      "url": "https://www.swipelexicon.com/en/glossary/roster-dating/",
      "updated": "2026-10-06",
      "added": "2026-10-04",
      "related": [
        "cookie-jarring",
        "situationship",
        "talking-stage",
        "dating-app-burnout",
        "breadcrumbing"
      ]
    },
    {
      "slug": "situationship",
      "term": "Situationship",
      "means": "Undefined relationship",
      "description": "A situationship is a romantic or sexual relationship that neither person has defined. You act like a couple: time, affection, often sex. Nobody has said what it is, and usually one of you wants to. It is past the talking stage and short of a relationship, and it stays there because no one asks.",
      "url": "https://www.swipelexicon.com/en/glossary/situationship/",
      "updated": "2026-10-05",
      "added": "2026-10-03",
      "related": [
        "talking-stage",
        "breadcrumbing",
        "ghosting",
        "fwb",
        "cookie-jarring"
      ],
      "translation": "https://www.swipelexicon.com/sv/ordlista/situationship/"
    },
    {
      "slug": "slow-dating",
      "term": "Slow dating",
      "means": "Deliberately taking longer before meeting or committing",
      "description": "Slow dating is deliberately taking longer: more messages before the first date, more dates before anything physical, more time before anyone says \"exclusive\". It is a pace, not a goal. Intentional dating is about knowing what you want. Slow dating is about how fast you find out whether this person is it.",
      "url": "https://www.swipelexicon.com/en/glossary/slow-dating/",
      "updated": "2026-10-04",
      "added": "2026-10-04",
      "related": [
        "talking-stage",
        "situationship",
        "dating-app-burnout",
        "love-bombing",
        "dry-dating"
      ]
    },
    {
      "slug": "soft-launch",
      "term": "Soft launch",
      "means": "Hinting at a new partner on social media without showing them",
      "description": "A soft launch is hinting at a new relationship on social media without showing who it is: a hand on a coffee cup, a second plate, a shadow in a story. The term is borrowed from business, where a product goes out to a small audience first. A hard launch shows the face and says the name.",
      "url": "https://www.swipelexicon.com/en/glossary/soft-launch/",
      "updated": "2026-10-06",
      "added": "2026-10-03",
      "related": [
        "hard-launch",
        "talking-stage",
        "situationship",
        "red-flags",
        "green-flags"
      ],
      "translation": "https://www.swipelexicon.com/sv/ordlista/soft-launch/"
    },
    {
      "slug": "talking-stage",
      "term": "Talking stage",
      "means": "The phase before dating is agreed",
      "description": "The talking stage is the stretch between the first message and the moment two people agree they are dating. You text daily, maybe meet, and nobody has named it yet. It differs from a situationship in one way: the talking stage is supposed to end with a decision. A situationship is what you get when it does not.",
      "url": "https://www.swipelexicon.com/en/glossary/talking-stage/",
      "updated": "2026-10-05",
      "added": "2026-10-03",
      "related": [
        "situationship",
        "red-flags",
        "green-flags",
        "ghosting",
        "love-bombing"
      ],
      "translation": "https://www.swipelexicon.com/sv/ordlista/talking-stage/"
    },
    {
      "slug": "the-ick",
      "term": "The ick",
      "means": "Sudden, often trivial, turn-off",
      "description": "The ick is a sudden, often trivial turn-off that makes someone you liked seem unattractive, sometimes for good. The way he runs for a bus. The way she says \"pacifically\". Unlike a red flag, which is about values or how someone treats people, the ick is about a quirk.",
      "url": "https://www.swipelexicon.com/en/glossary/the-ick/",
      "updated": "2026-10-04",
      "added": "2026-10-03",
      "related": [
        "red-flags",
        "green-flags",
        "beige-flags",
        "situationship",
        "ghosting"
      ],
      "translation": "https://www.swipelexicon.com/sv/ordlista/the-ick/"
    },
    {
      "slug": "zombieing",
      "term": "Zombieing",
      "means": "A ghoster who comes back as if nothing happened",
      "description": "Zombieing is when someone who ghosted you comes back from the dead: a \"hey stranger\" weeks or months after they stopped replying, with no explanation. A ghost stays silent and an orbiter only watches. A zombie writes. It is neither an apology nor a plan.",
      "url": "https://www.swipelexicon.com/en/glossary/zombieing/",
      "updated": "2026-10-05",
      "added": "2026-10-03",
      "related": [
        "ghosting",
        "orbiting",
        "paperclipping",
        "breadcrumbing",
        "cuffing-season"
      ]
    }
  ]
}