What do everyday people think the term “microaggression” means? Are people equally willing to use the term to describe different types of microaggressions (e.g., microassaults, microinsults, and microinvalidations)? While researchers, such as Sue et al. (2007), define the term “microaggression” in their published work, it is not clear whether the ways in which everyday people define this term align with such definitions. We seek to explore these questions by recruiting 200 adults within the United States and asking the extent to which they are familiar with the term “microaggression”: Those who indicate familiarity will be asked to characterize the meaning of the term using a semantic differential scale, and those unfamiliar with the term will be presented with a definition followed by the same semantic differential scale. Participants will then be shown six scenarios, three involving microaggressions and three involving pleasant interactions, and asked how sure they are that what the person in power said to the minority member was a microaggression on a scale of 1 (very sure it was not a microaggression) to 7 (very sure it was a microaggression). After each rating, participants will be asked an open-ended, follow-up question about their reasoning. We are interested to see the extent to which our participants are familiar with the term “microaggression” and whether the semantic differential scale ratings are different based on whether participants were provided a definition. We anticipate differences in ratings across the different types of microaggressions with participants being more confident that microassaults are microaggressions as compared to microinsults and microinvalidations. Finally, participants’ responses will be used to determine which factors are most important for everyday people when considering the term “microaggression.” These findings can be used to develop more effective strategies for reducing the frequency of microaggressions in everyday life.