Oxford Adds “Friend Zone” to Dictionary

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Know Your Meme, a site known for studying and explaining internet memes is reporting that Oxford now recognises “Friend Zone” as an actual term. According to the dictionary the term is defined as:

noun
informal
a situation in which a platonic relationship exists between two people, one of whom has an undeclared romantic or sexual interest in the other:
I always wind up in the friend zone, watching them pursue other guys