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What is breadcrumbing? The phrase set to be the new ‘mugged off’ in the Love Island villa


Dating chat in the Love Island villa can be confusing, and sometimes you need a dictionary just to keep up.

From being pied off, mugged off or being a melt – the Love Island villa definitely has its own lingo.

Dating in 2019 can be difficult if you haven’t followed the evolution of the jargon.

When asked what she thought the new phrase would be for 2019, presenter Caroline Flack had an answer straight away.

Breadcrumbing.

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What is breadcrumbing? The phrase set to be the new ‘mugged off’ in the Love Island villa (Pic: ITV / GETTY)

“Breadcrumbing is when you leave little pieces of bread for someone. When you lead someone on”

Caroline Flack

What is breadcrumbing?

This Morning’s Alison Hammond asked: “What do you think the next big phrase is going to be? Because we’ve had pied off, mugged off. What do you think it’s going to be?

To which Caroline answered: “I think it’s going to be breadcrumbing.”

A puzzled Alison replied: “Breadcrumbing?”

Caroline explained: “Breadcrumbing is when you leave little pieces of bread for someone. When you lead someone on.

“‘Stop breadcrumbing me’. I’ve been breadcrumbed a few times.”

According to Urban Dictionary, breadcrumbing is “the act of sending out flirtatious but non-committal text messages (i.e. ‘breadcrumbs’) in order to lure a sexual partner without expending much effort.”

In other words words, as Caroline said, leading someone on, or playing mind games.

The Islanders have been known to use all sorts of phrases which can be mind-boggling if you don’t know what they mean.

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BREADCRUMBING: Caroline described to Alison what the phrase means (Pic: ITV)

For example “grafting”, which means working hard at getting someone to like you.

“Cracking on” with someone, which is to develop a romantic relationship with someone.

On Love island you might hear: “I’m done with [name]. I’m gonna crack on with [different name] instead.”

You also might hear someone ask “where’s your head at?” which is a way of finding out how someone feels about you.

Or you might hear someone is acting like a “snake”, which is when someone has done something bad behind your back.



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