Delulu dulhania le jayenge, you think?
Gen Z slang goes, we've seen plenty of them, some flitting by faster than a trenderoo. It's still early days for 'delulu,' but this trisyllabic word — 'di-loo-loo' — that packs a punch of the lu from 'delusional' is doing the heavy spin cycle these days. So, we thought it's certainly worth our while to catch on to what it really means.
As mentioned earlier, it stands for delusional, or believing in something outrageous. But here's the twist. While delulu did start off as a 'deruru' — our coinage for a 'derogatory jibe' — to make fun of people who believe in ridiculously impossible things, like, say, the prime minister joining the Congress, or all Indians appreciating irony, somewhere down the line it became a do-to inspirational thing.
Not unlike what Oprah Winfrey coined as 'manifesting' — wanting something so bad, that however impossible it may be, by putting one's mind to it, one gets it.
Deruru is less guruspeak, though. It still retains its frivolous, fun edge which it started off with, the K-pop fan community using it to describe delusional fan behaviour. Like just by being a super fan, one will end up hooking up with BTS member Jung Ho-seok a.k.a.
