YOLO, a new American word, is the acronym for You Only Live Once, which means you can only live once, so you should live in the present and do it boldly.

The meaning of YOLO is that people should enjoy life, even if they need to take risks. It just encourages people to not be afraid of taking risks, do whatever they want, and enjoy life because they only live once.

Origin

Dictionary compiler Ben Zimmer discovered that the new word originated from the YOLO trademark, which means You Only Live Once. Now this sentence is often used in teenagers' conversations and music. . Canadian rapper Drake's "The Motto" popularized this phrase on the Internet; BTS's songs "INTRO: O!RUL8,2?" and "Go Go" used "You only live once" and "YOLO" respectively. .

In 2016, this new word was included as an entry in the Oxford Dictionary for the first time. In 2019, the Chinese male pop singing group R1SE mentioned "My motto is YOLO" in "Never Surrender", which was created in its second album "Explosive Rhapsody" based on the human-machine battle between Ke Jie and ALPHAGO.