delulu

English

Etymology

A clipping with a reduplication of delusional, popularized by the K-pop fandom.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dɪˈluː.luː/
  • Audio (US):(file)

Adjective

delulu (comparative more delulu, superlative most delulu)

  1. (Internet slang) Delusional. [from 21st c.]
    • 2012 January 13, @zingapprentice, Twitter‎[1], archived from the original on 22 July 2024:
      I literally think someone gave me drugs while I was sleeping... Im so delulu right now what on earth
    • 2020, Arushi Raj, Understand K-pop, page 129:
      Most of the fans sending hate to the idol would claim that they are not delulu fans but they just want the idol out of the group because the group's growth will be affected by the wrath of delulu fans.
    • 2020, River L. Davis, As Above So Below: The Rise of the Southern Obeah, unnumbered page:
      "You are so delulu boy. You need Jesus." Inez sighed.
    • 2023 June, Zack Zwiezen, “Why is everyone delulu online?”, in USTimesPost:
      You are delulu if you still think about someone you once met years before.
    • 2025 July 8, u/marten_EU_BR, “Those chemtrails at it again!!”, in r/terriblefacebookmemes‎[2], Reddit, archived from the original on 18 July 2025:
      However, conspiracy theorists don't want decarbonization or climate adaptation measures. They are simply living in their delulu world.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:delulu.

Descendants

  • → Russian: делу́лу (delúlu)

Noun

delulu (countable and uncountable, plural delulus)

  1. (Internet slang) Delusion.
    • 2025 May 20, u/sam1L1, “What exactly is the Mongolian dream ?”, in r/mongolia‎[3], Reddit, archived from the original on 9 July 2025:
      how to achieve this level of delulu?
  2. (Internet slang) A delusional person.

Derived terms

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