“I have negative rizz,” one of my guy friends declared over pancakes one Saturday morning. It was a bleary-eyed brunch—the kind where you’re still half-drunk from the night before—when he threw out ...

Rizz is short for “charisma,” and it simply means an ability to charm and woo a person. It’s pronounced, well, rizz, just like it’s spelled. The term found its way into teen slang through TikTok and ...