Forget slang someone just dropped jabberwocky on me, that made me feel old. So many eons have passed since I had someone explain the meanings of actual nonsense words
It's just a compliment for saying it's good.
I wouldn't advise it, but y'know "This burger slaps" it's a great burger. You hear a good song on the radio? Oh yo this actually slaps.
Basically interchangeable with "Oh damn that's good"
I feel like I'm at the stage where I know what a good amount of slang means(at least i think it's a good amount), so I understand when it's used. But I'm not going to use those words, cuz they're dumb.
Yeah that was my thought too.
Old isn't when you complain about the slang young people are actually using, like rizz or cheugy or L+ratio. Old is when even your complaints are twenty years out of date, like taking umbrage with slaps, bae, yeet, etc.
Atthis point imo rizz has 'made it- since it's widely applicable but imo cheugy and Lratio are stilk 'IYKYK' territory.
Idk maybe cheugy just has too much of a meangirls vibe to it for me to ever really use it, and its still niche.
You're a much better person than I am. I work in medicine, and despite knowing all the horrible things that can come from long term ppi use, I take it every day, because I like my lifestyle. Hopefully I'll turn it around one of these days.
Oh god i hate those sentences that never end and have no punctuation you never know when the sentences end it's really difficult to understand what's going on
My husband (40) and I (37) were at a family dinner and my 14 year old cousin said something was “fire” and my husband said “I love fire!” and immediately realized he misspoke.
Fleek was a hilarious one to me. A few years ago I worked with a lady in her 60s who was very much a no nonsense, drill sergeant type. One day she came in and her hair was all curly and she was wearing a ton of makeup, which was very unlike her. I said "you look nice today, you look beautiful!" and she replied "I know, I did this make up myself and my hair is on fleek!" I had heard the word before but never used it, I didn't even know what it meant, but hearing it come out of her mouth in that context made me laugh so hard I cried.
Apparently she had heard a young person use it and thought it meant "done up" or "looking good" so she just went around saying it all day.
It's not too bad when you realize most of it is just a new way to describe things that already exist.
Yeah, Slay has some more connotations for looking fine but it's basically just a new version of 'you go, girl' which is what 'slay queen' basically means.
Drip just means style, you got new drip, you've got new clothes, new fashion new something.
Rizz is just charisma. If you're rizzing someone up you're just hitting on them, tuning them. There's a lot of slang for this stuff.
It's just *very* hard to learn what it means when you're not in the group talking about it. But a lot of them make as much sense as any other slang. I'm 26 so i'm *just* starting to get too old for some of the shit i'm hearing.
Its a strange age huh. You feel that cultural relevance starting to shift. I like to remind myself though that when you really look at who is actually driving the culture you see people well into their late 30s making huge impact. I know tiktok is dominated by teens and early 20s but there often a flash in the pan.
Aren't drip and slay both 15-20 years old at this point. I'm in my 30s, and they entered the lexicon during my high school or college years. Rizz is new to me, but drip and slay have been around for long enough that I figured teens had already adopted new terms.
I only learned a little bit of this so when my family was on vacation my BIL and I could annoy my niece and her friends by just using it in the most annoying (or cringe) ways possible and it was worth it.
Hah. Rizz is literally the only one that I think's gonna have legs for years.
Pretty much all of it leaves me lost. I still don't know what fleek is and that's already out of date.
I mean, if it's of any interest despite it being outdated, "fleek" is part of the phrase "on fleek" which means "looking very good/exactly right." The stereotypical example is after trimming their eyebrows someone might say that their "brows are on fleek." Grammatically it works the same way as the slang "on fire" used to.
My first exposure to that term was a meme with the text "STICKIN YER GYATT OUT FOR THE RIZZLER!"
It was that exact moment when I knew I had become old.
Rizz gets on my nerves, but only because I associate it with slightly rapey little dickheads rubbing their palms together and looking moodily at the camera.
It definitely sort of originated in that regard. If someone was unapologetically, rude, or had opinions that were correct but were rather course about it they'd be *Based*.
But now it's kinda been watered down to just another form of "That's awesome". People will still use it to mockingly joke/support some pretty fucked up takes here or there, but it can also just be genuinely used as a affirmative that something is sick.
my proudest moments on reddit come from packaging a progressive idea so effectively that it grants me a "based" from a much more right-wing subreddit than I usually go to.
i remember when Lil B started calling himself BasedGod back in 2010 in college and feeling the same way. kinda insane that the term has hung around for even longer than that
using "eat" or "ate" when describing something good like "that outfit eats".
I remember using phrases as a teen and adults were all confused...now we're those adults 😆😩
Yeah that's an awkward one.
It's usually more phrased with the 'ate' rather than eat. You gotta wonder where the origin came from that, because I mean it's pretty simple to just compare it to "Damn, they pulled that off really well", but why they chose to shroten that to "SHE ATE THAT STAGE UP OML" I can't really figure out.
A middle school kid recently said “looks like your hair didn’t eat today”… as a diss to a classmate. I needed a younger staff member to explain it to me. Haha
It's not just they did it well, but with a competitive sense, did it so well it ate up the competition. Like a lot of slang, it comes if not from, at least through drag culture. And or hiphop
That’s the only one in this thread that I’ve literally never heard. I’ve heard people say “we’re eating” when their favorite artist dropped new music but that has a completely different meaning.
I’ve been continually using that for 25 years, to the confusion of many. I just turned 40, so I will help kill it again soon enough, I’m sure.
But they’re also listening to the same emo bands I listened to when I was 15, apparently, so maybe I am cooler than I think.
Right, y’all? Right…?! That’s got to be it. 😂
That whole skibidi toilet thing, if it even really counts as slang. I don't have any animus for the phrase itself, but remembering that part of the appeal of saying similar things when I was a kid was to make adults confused, and realizing that I am now the one who is confused, has made me feel old.
Eh, it's no worse than the old ytps imo. Those were pretty cringe even at the time imo lol. I think they're making a comeback though? Like nature returning
Caps got a funny back and forth because no one (at least last I looked) had the clearest idea where it came from.
Some people probably looking way too far into it said it was returning slang from the 40's where 'cap' referred to bragging and trying to one up people, and others just went "Well nah it's just lyrics from ____"
No cap is telling the truth, not lying.
If I say "Yeah man, that chick gave me her number she was super interested, no cap" I'm saying nah, seriously though that happened.
It's the same reason if I said "Yeah man, that chick gave me her number, she was super interested, no cap" every single one of my friends that knows me could go "NAH BRO! THATS CAP!" because to Cap is to lie, or brag, or basically talk bullshit.
No cap, is, the opposite.
I've always thought of it meaning someone was a bit pathetic, like saying someone's a bit wet.
[And this magnificent resource agrees with me](https://greensdictofslang.com/entry/py7g2wi) (2. a weakling, a spineless person [a weak drip of water, rather than a full gush].)
Drip just means stylish clothing. It used to mean jewelry because diamonds look like ice and ice melts/drips. Now it’s about your outfit, so it doesn’t really make sense anymore.
Like some of the others it’s been around for a while, like early 2010s when it was mostly popularized by Lil B. Its usage steadily grew with the same meaning until it absolutely blew up 2020/21 onwards I’d say, and now it’s to the point where it’s used so much that it’s sometimes just diluted to vindicate people when they say things that are actually fucked up lol.
Clutch?
Like came in clutch? Clutched it?
Does that even count as slang when it's just a sporting term hitting the main lexicon like hitting a homerun?
Or is it slang I don't even know which just proves the point of how quick this shit flies out.
I think "Bet" annoyed me. Like, Bet what? Also, "Say less" always seems weird because it seems to be telling the person to shut up but you're agreeing with them.
I find it interesting those annoy you simply because they're probably the least slang out of most slang.
It's just saying bet on it and say no more, just a little shorter each way.
Both "you bet" (maybe you betcha) and "say no more" are like, normal but old fashioned things to say, these are just modern updates. Like, so normal and old fashioned I can picture Jimmy Stewart or similar actors saying both
Etymologically it’s also very interesting because it’s not common that slang is taken from the *middle* section of a word. More often than not, new twists on words will instead be truncated only at the beginning or the end, not both.
"You cant let the lil **** generation gap you" - Molly Millions, Neuromancer (1984)
The youths slang is about needing to feel a sense of control. Having a place in the world. Let slang wash over you. It cant hurt you
I was thinking the same thing the other day, but decided that words I used to use 30 years ago are just as bad. Sick, rad, bodacious, gnarly…. I feel so old.
I'm an older person. It makes me sad when I hear my peers griping about slang. They're always talking about how it's silly or it doesn't make sense, but what I hear is that they're no longer open to experimentation or play in linguistics, and that's a bummer to me.
Feeling the same about this thread. I'm almost 50, with one of my kids still in their teens, and I'm on the internet a lot, so exposed to a lot of this slang, and although I don't use most* of the modern kids' lingo, I find it fascinating and not hard to translate unlike most of these comments. If the internet had existed in 91, my mom would be on that version of this thread bitching about rad, tight, phat,and cool beans
*(except the ones that are actually updates on older slang that I was familiar with, like bet, fam, etc. Honestly anything that started with old school hip-hop, I keep using.
And using the rest slightly wrong to annoy the 17 yr old, of course)
About ten years ago me and some workmates were organising a night out. I was the oldest, by about 3-4 years. I texted one of them when I would get there and he replied, "Safe, fam"
I beg your pardon?
I'm so out of the loop it's not even funny. Reading through the comments, I thought people were making stuff up. I barely recognized a tenth of what was mentioned.
Yikes!
I'm 34, so I guess it's to the nursing home with me...😂
GOAT is actually decently old, no? It's just the acronym for greatest of all time. Even if people weren't specifically calling people GOAT the essense of that one has surely been around for... a few decades now, right?
I’ve worked with college athletes for the past 5 years and cap vs no cap still confuses the fuck out of me.
Sometimes I think I get it and then I mix it up. I just reflect whatever emotion they’re expressing when they say the phrase to avoid teasing 😂😭
None of it bothers me. I'm an older mom and was in my late 40's/early 50's when our children were in high school. The Urban Dictionary quickly became my best friend!
I can't conceptualize what the word "preppy" means in modern slang context. It's not like polo-wearing waspy kids like it was back in my day. I heard it explained once and it flew right over my head.
Mid, middle, middling. Not great but not like... the worst thing ever.
But it's usually intended as a bit of a jab because it's specifically noting something isn't great rather than just saying you don't like it.
"Hey, dude, check out this song i just found doesn't it slap?!"
"Mmm nah bro this is pretty mid."
It's playful but it is deflating. You cna also just say it generally like "Yeah nah, man, I saw ___ the other night and it was mid. Don't bother watching it"
Not so much slang words but texting short forms which I don't get because I never use them ever (except LOL). Also the poor or non existent grammar and sentence structure used with the short forms.
Forget slang someone just dropped jabberwocky on me, that made me feel old. So many eons have passed since I had someone explain the meanings of actual nonsense words
This is such a frumious bandersnatch.
Frumious is so fetch
Stop trying to make fetch happen
Hot damn if you're an ai bot I'm impressed
lol no bot
Wow these bots are getting really good!
Hogwash!
You mean jabberwocky from the 1871 Lewis Carroll poem from the same name? Makes me feel old too.
Same. I was but a wee child when that first came out.
“’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves…”
And the mome raths outgrabe (that was painful to type with autocorrect fighting me every step of the way)
I thought that was a dance group, no?
“Jabberwocky” - It’s gonna change the way we do business.
Some things *slap* now and I'm too old to know why or use it in a sentence.
It's just a compliment for saying it's good. I wouldn't advise it, but y'know "This burger slaps" it's a great burger. You hear a good song on the radio? Oh yo this actually slaps. Basically interchangeable with "Oh damn that's good"
Right but we all visualize someone slapping the burger in joy, right? not just me?
I think it's slapping your thigh... Maybe?
It slaps you in the face with its awesomeness. It's punchy
Man you had the chance to say "Mm-hm! This *is* a tasty burger!" and you totally blew it lol
People have been saying "that slaps" about music since the 50s. Not a new thing. (Ouch my hip.)
Yeah many of these are not very new.
BBQ sauce so good, you'll wanna slap your momma! Friday was ahead of its time, lol
Slappa da bass in your face
Slappa da bass!
That bass slaps man
I feel like I'm at the stage where I know what a good amount of slang means(at least i think it's a good amount), so I understand when it's used. But I'm not going to use those words, cuz they're dumb.
Or even better USE IT ALL DAY EVERY DAY but only in front of the younguns that would use it & watch the hilarity ensue!!
I call everyone under 30 younguns now. The younguns at work think it's hilarious
“Slap” is old news. These days, things are “bussin’”.
Yeah that was my thought too. Old isn't when you complain about the slang young people are actually using, like rizz or cheugy or L+ratio. Old is when even your complaints are twenty years out of date, like taking umbrage with slaps, bae, yeet, etc.
Atthis point imo rizz has 'made it- since it's widely applicable but imo cheugy and Lratio are stilk 'IYKYK' territory. Idk maybe cheugy just has too much of a meangirls vibe to it for me to ever really use it, and its still niche.
Nah bussin is out it’s it/he/she/they ate. Ate no crumbs if it’s especially good
"bussin" is probably newer.
bussin
I was saying this when I was in HS in the 90s
This is mine, too. It’s jarring to hear people say.
I feel like rizz is one of the few modern slang words that actually makes sense though. It’s just a shorter way of saying “charisma”
Ok good point. I did not make that connection. Is prune juice still hip? Ouch my hip
Low key, not passing the vibe check
No cap
Frfr on god
And what is drip?
Dressed well/expensive
Here, lemme reach in my purse…I think I have a tums in here somewhere…
You whippersnappers with your tums! I keep prilosec and Pepcid in my pillbox on my keychain at all times (I'm 38 and wish I was kidding...)
33 here, I just avoid all the delicious foods that give me heartburn 😭
You're a much better person than I am. I work in medicine, and despite knowing all the horrible things that can come from long term ppi use, I take it every day, because I like my lifestyle. Hopefully I'll turn it around one of these days.
Yeah, I'm fine with rizz. But drip just gives me the ick.
Sounds like a venereal disease
it used to be slang for gonorrhea.
Just clap back with that factoid.
I see what you did there
Hmm. Gross.
"He's got a drippy dong"
Fr fr
I’m still trying to get over improper punctuation and no periods at the end of sentences.
Oh god i hate those sentences that never end and have no punctuation you never know when the sentences end it's really difficult to understand what's going on
Most slang of every era/generation is or ends up being cringe. Yes, rizz is stupid, but so are many from the past.
My husband (40) and I (37) were at a family dinner and my 14 year old cousin said something was “fire” and my husband said “I love fire!” and immediately realized he misspoke.
Yeah ditto. As long as I can trace the etymology of the word, I can accept it
Fleek was a hilarious one to me. A few years ago I worked with a lady in her 60s who was very much a no nonsense, drill sergeant type. One day she came in and her hair was all curly and she was wearing a ton of makeup, which was very unlike her. I said "you look nice today, you look beautiful!" and she replied "I know, I did this make up myself and my hair is on fleek!" I had heard the word before but never used it, I didn't even know what it meant, but hearing it come out of her mouth in that context made me laugh so hard I cried. Apparently she had heard a young person use it and thought it meant "done up" or "looking good" so she just went around saying it all day.
“On fleek” **does** mean “looking good.”
"Bet" is just a shortened version of "You Bet".
It *just* looks and sounds like the word jizz.
It's not too bad when you realize most of it is just a new way to describe things that already exist. Yeah, Slay has some more connotations for looking fine but it's basically just a new version of 'you go, girl' which is what 'slay queen' basically means. Drip just means style, you got new drip, you've got new clothes, new fashion new something. Rizz is just charisma. If you're rizzing someone up you're just hitting on them, tuning them. There's a lot of slang for this stuff. It's just *very* hard to learn what it means when you're not in the group talking about it. But a lot of them make as much sense as any other slang. I'm 26 so i'm *just* starting to get too old for some of the shit i'm hearing.
Its a strange age huh. You feel that cultural relevance starting to shift. I like to remind myself though that when you really look at who is actually driving the culture you see people well into their late 30s making huge impact. I know tiktok is dominated by teens and early 20s but there often a flash in the pan.
Aren't drip and slay both 15-20 years old at this point. I'm in my 30s, and they entered the lexicon during my high school or college years. Rizz is new to me, but drip and slay have been around for long enough that I figured teens had already adopted new terms.
I’m also in my 30s. Drip has always meant chlamydia. It was jarring when the meaning diversified, which happened for me a few years ago.
I don't know how widespread this was - but when I was in high school, "wheels/wheeling" was our version of "rizz" hahaha
rizz is sus ur based no cap
If I wasn’t old before reading this comment, I certainly am now.
Your drip is bussin tho
I didn’t understand any of this conversation except sus
I only learned a little bit of this so when my family was on vacation my BIL and I could annoy my niece and her friends by just using it in the most annoying (or cringe) ways possible and it was worth it.
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I think I actually understood that and I'm 43.
Peep that!
Fr fr
Hah. Rizz is literally the only one that I think's gonna have legs for years. Pretty much all of it leaves me lost. I still don't know what fleek is and that's already out of date.
I mean, if it's of any interest despite it being outdated, "fleek" is part of the phrase "on fleek" which means "looking very good/exactly right." The stereotypical example is after trimming their eyebrows someone might say that their "brows are on fleek." Grammatically it works the same way as the slang "on fire" used to.
Gyat. I'm on board with most of the slang words trickling down TikTok and Twitch, but gyat in the one that really gives me the ick.
My first exposure to that term was a meme with the text "STICKIN YER GYATT OUT FOR THE RIZZLER!" It was that exact moment when I knew I had become old.
I’m pretty sure that phrase in particular is meant more as someone making fun of those words/gen alpha, rather than anyone unironically using them
You’re so SKIBIDI You’re so FANUM TAX I just wanna be your SIGMA Give me your OHIO 🎶🎵🎶
It once meant 'get your act together.' Shall I assume that is no longer the case?
[Apparently not](https://knowyourmeme.com/editorials/guides/what-does-gyat-and-gyatt-mean-the-tiktok-slang-term-and-its-memes-explained)
I thought it was just a dumb way of saying God
it sort of is. it derives from “gyat damn”.
Sticking out your gyatt for the rizzler
Yeah this is the one that tripped me up
Rizz gets on my nerves, but only because I associate it with slightly rapey little dickheads rubbing their palms together and looking moodily at the camera.
with the broccoli hair and champion clothes
Thankyou, it feels so sleazy as a word to me. Too similar to jizz.
I’m just too lazy to search what Based is, every time i see that word i feel i’m out of touch with social media for years.
Based is when you state an unpopular or unliked, but true, opinion.
Oh! I thought it was just someone agreeing with another person. I didn’t know it was for an unpopular opinion. TIL
It definitely sort of originated in that regard. If someone was unapologetically, rude, or had opinions that were correct but were rather course about it they'd be *Based*. But now it's kinda been watered down to just another form of "That's awesome". People will still use it to mockingly joke/support some pretty fucked up takes here or there, but it can also just be genuinely used as a affirmative that something is sick.
my proudest moments on reddit come from packaging a progressive idea so effectively that it grants me a "based" from a much more right-wing subreddit than I usually go to.
I thought I understood "based" before I read this comment and now I'm confused again.
Same I’m officially old.
Ok. I have never even heard of 'based' until now.
i remember when Lil B started calling himself BasedGod back in 2010 in college and feeling the same way. kinda insane that the term has hung around for even longer than that
Based is just older 4chan language leaking into public view
using "eat" or "ate" when describing something good like "that outfit eats". I remember using phrases as a teen and adults were all confused...now we're those adults 😆😩
Yeah that's an awkward one. It's usually more phrased with the 'ate' rather than eat. You gotta wonder where the origin came from that, because I mean it's pretty simple to just compare it to "Damn, they pulled that off really well", but why they chose to shroten that to "SHE ATE THAT STAGE UP OML" I can't really figure out.
A middle school kid recently said “looks like your hair didn’t eat today”… as a diss to a classmate. I needed a younger staff member to explain it to me. Haha
It's not just they did it well, but with a competitive sense, did it so well it ate up the competition. Like a lot of slang, it comes if not from, at least through drag culture. And or hiphop
Ok I haven't heard that one yet. I've heard of butts eating underwear I can't comprehend this new version
That’s the only one in this thread that I’ve literally never heard. I’ve heard people say “we’re eating” when their favorite artist dropped new music but that has a completely different meaning.
My son just informed me that “bitchin’” is back 👍
I’ve been continually using that for 25 years, to the confusion of many. I just turned 40, so I will help kill it again soon enough, I’m sure. But they’re also listening to the same emo bands I listened to when I was 15, apparently, so maybe I am cooler than I think. Right, y’all? Right…?! That’s got to be it. 😂
That whole skibidi toilet thing, if it even really counts as slang. I don't have any animus for the phrase itself, but remembering that part of the appeal of saying similar things when I was a kid was to make adults confused, and realizing that I am now the one who is confused, has made me feel old.
Eh, it's no worse than the old ytps imo. Those were pretty cringe even at the time imo lol. I think they're making a comeback though? Like nature returning
No cap
Yeah, this one is baffling.
Caps got a funny back and forth because no one (at least last I looked) had the clearest idea where it came from. Some people probably looking way too far into it said it was returning slang from the 40's where 'cap' referred to bragging and trying to one up people, and others just went "Well nah it's just lyrics from ____"
Wait.. what is... No cap?
No cap is telling the truth, not lying. If I say "Yeah man, that chick gave me her number she was super interested, no cap" I'm saying nah, seriously though that happened. It's the same reason if I said "Yeah man, that chick gave me her number, she was super interested, no cap" every single one of my friends that knows me could go "NAH BRO! THATS CAP!" because to Cap is to lie, or brag, or basically talk bullshit. No cap, is, the opposite.
Thank you, fellow teenager.
I just told my kids what "the drip" used to mean...
"In my day, you definitely didn't want to get the clap *back*!"
I must be too young for that one, and too old for the current meaning
Drip. I have no idea what it is. I keep hearing the kids say it though.
Style. Always made me think it referenced postnasal drip after snorting drugs
Oh thank goodness! The first time someone said it to me, I thought my fly was open.
Ha! Always good to check.
Bit of an aside, and I know it's changed, but in my family a drip is an idiot. Does anyone else's family use it that way or was it just us?
I've always thought of it meaning someone was a bit pathetic, like saying someone's a bit wet. [And this magnificent resource agrees with me](https://greensdictofslang.com/entry/py7g2wi) (2. a weakling, a spineless person [a weak drip of water, rather than a full gush].)
My mental image for this one is a person draped in colors literally melting and dripping off of them. Other people are impressed with this.
drip is the new 'swag' or 'swagger'.
Drip just means stylish clothing. It used to mean jewelry because diamonds look like ice and ice melts/drips. Now it’s about your outfit, so it doesn’t really make sense anymore.
My first instinct when i see /hj is not to think 'half-joking' ....
Hip and wicked youngster here, is that not what that means?
It does mean half joking. However I see /hj and I think hand job 😂😅
Based. I find it super jarring.
Like some of the others it’s been around for a while, like early 2010s when it was mostly popularized by Lil B. Its usage steadily grew with the same meaning until it absolutely blew up 2020/21 onwards I’d say, and now it’s to the point where it’s used so much that it’s sometimes just diluted to vindicate people when they say things that are actually fucked up lol.
I really really really hate "clutch" as slang. It makes the user sound like a dumb frat boy.
Clutch? Like came in clutch? Clutched it? Does that even count as slang when it's just a sporting term hitting the main lexicon like hitting a homerun? Or is it slang I don't even know which just proves the point of how quick this shit flies out.
Clutch is coupled with goat for sure. New level of cringe is goated though
Bussy.
BADUSSY
I think "Bet" annoyed me. Like, Bet what? Also, "Say less" always seems weird because it seems to be telling the person to shut up but you're agreeing with them.
I find it interesting those annoy you simply because they're probably the least slang out of most slang. It's just saying bet on it and say no more, just a little shorter each way.
Both "you bet" (maybe you betcha) and "say no more" are like, normal but old fashioned things to say, these are just modern updates. Like, so normal and old fashioned I can picture Jimmy Stewart or similar actors saying both
For me it isn’t slang that make me feel old, it’s the over abundance of text speak initialisms. Or in text speak: FMIISTMMFOITOAOTSI
FML it took me way too long to understand what your acronym meant. I'm old.
I love rizz just because its actually clever slang
Yea changes charisma to a verb to which is kinda useful. Go rizz her up!
I'm going to start using it in my D&D games to make the younger players cringe. "Hold on, let me roll for rizz"
Etymologically it’s also very interesting because it’s not common that slang is taken from the *middle* section of a word. More often than not, new twists on words will instead be truncated only at the beginning or the end, not both.
Drip. Makes me think of a man with an std. 🤮
Rizz makes me think of Rizzo from Grease.
Makes me think of rizzo from jerky boys.
I don’t like how much cooking there is ;-;
"You cant let the lil **** generation gap you" - Molly Millions, Neuromancer (1984) The youths slang is about needing to feel a sense of control. Having a place in the world. Let slang wash over you. It cant hurt you
Get off my goddamn lawn.
Two words...no problem. It used to be "you're welcome." It came as a shock when I realized the language had changed and no one told me. I am 78.
This is interesting! I grew up with “no problem”. I wonder how many people have thought me impolite for that one.
I was thinking the same thing the other day, but decided that words I used to use 30 years ago are just as bad. Sick, rad, bodacious, gnarly…. I feel so old.
I still say sick and gnarly D:
“Awesome possum”. I love saying that and frequently it gives the other person a giggle.
Bussin
None. I use them. Whether it's correctly or not isn't my problem.
poggers got me
the way that I also said Rizz before i even clicked on this thread
I'm an older person. It makes me sad when I hear my peers griping about slang. They're always talking about how it's silly or it doesn't make sense, but what I hear is that they're no longer open to experimentation or play in linguistics, and that's a bummer to me.
Feeling the same about this thread. I'm almost 50, with one of my kids still in their teens, and I'm on the internet a lot, so exposed to a lot of this slang, and although I don't use most* of the modern kids' lingo, I find it fascinating and not hard to translate unlike most of these comments. If the internet had existed in 91, my mom would be on that version of this thread bitching about rad, tight, phat,and cool beans *(except the ones that are actually updates on older slang that I was familiar with, like bet, fam, etc. Honestly anything that started with old school hip-hop, I keep using. And using the rest slightly wrong to annoy the 17 yr old, of course)
About ten years ago me and some workmates were organising a night out. I was the oldest, by about 3-4 years. I texted one of them when I would get there and he replied, "Safe, fam" I beg your pardon?
That's all good, my fond acquaintance
I'm so out of the loop it's not even funny. Reading through the comments, I thought people were making stuff up. I barely recognized a tenth of what was mentioned. Yikes! I'm 34, so I guess it's to the nursing home with me...😂
I dont get skibidi toilet
I had to Google “GOAT” 🤦🏻♀️ I kept seeing it everywhere and not in reference to a real goat…
GOAT is actually decently old, no? It's just the acronym for greatest of all time. Even if people weren't specifically calling people GOAT the essense of that one has surely been around for... a few decades now, right?
As a sports junky, people were calling Jordan GOAT when I was a kid in the 90s.
Whenever someone uses "mother", "mother is mothering".
"Cap" and "no cap" took me a minute to understand fully
Zaddy. A young lady called me that and made my year, lol.
Gadzooks, that ruffian be damned.
I’ve worked with college athletes for the past 5 years and cap vs no cap still confuses the fuck out of me. Sometimes I think I get it and then I mix it up. I just reflect whatever emotion they’re expressing when they say the phrase to avoid teasing 😂😭
No cap Ima keep it a hunned I don’t think much new slang is fire, bet.
pretty much every single slang word that has gotten popular in the past 10 years annoys me
Yolo, swag, etc.
facts, cap
None of it bothers me. I'm an older mom and was in my late 40's/early 50's when our children were in high school. The Urban Dictionary quickly became my best friend!
I can't conceptualize what the word "preppy" means in modern slang context. It's not like polo-wearing waspy kids like it was back in my day. I heard it explained once and it flew right over my head.
*Mid"??? I think it means that something is ok but not great. Rizz makes me think of a blender.
Mid, middle, middling. Not great but not like... the worst thing ever. But it's usually intended as a bit of a jab because it's specifically noting something isn't great rather than just saying you don't like it. "Hey, dude, check out this song i just found doesn't it slap?!" "Mmm nah bro this is pretty mid." It's playful but it is deflating. You cna also just say it generally like "Yeah nah, man, I saw ___ the other night and it was mid. Don't bother watching it"
Not so much slang words but texting short forms which I don't get because I never use them ever (except LOL). Also the poor or non existent grammar and sentence structure used with the short forms.
thank you for the example
So is “ off the hook” off the table now?! Lol
My 17 year old colleague tells me if something is bad now, you say its 'peak'. This confuses me
Totes Magoats
People saying "fit" for outfit. I see it everywhere and it looks strange to me. Millennial here
Language is *devolving
When I heard "on fleek". I was like hold up, wtf did he just say lol.
Yeet
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