GameStop Reddit lingo making you more confused? Here’s your shortcut guide

When Reddit’s wallstreetbets (WSB) broke the stock market this week, lots of people were introduced to a bunch of new slang words.

As the singer Dionne Warwick, who has a reputation for using Twitter to learn new things, asked: “What are stonks and why is it a trending subject?”

For Warwick and others among the uninitiated, here is a guide to understanding some common lingo you’ll find on Reddit threads about GameStop.

Stonks

An intentional misspelling of “stocks” that originated with an internet meme.

The meme shows Meme Man in a suit standing in front of a bunch of numbers and a big orange arrow. It is subtitled “stonks”.

It was originally a way of talking about amateur or bad financial decisions.

Like all memes, it gets twisted around and…