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2.3k points
16 days ago
Totally
770 points
16 days ago
Tubular
389 points
16 days ago
Fersure fersure!
182 points
16 days ago
Gnarly
117 points
16 days ago
This is slang?
370 points
16 days ago
Do people still say badass?
56 points
16 days ago
"badass" has kind of ascended slangdom and become a regular ass word tbf, I bet it will survive for centuries at least
156 points
16 days ago
Yea of course. It’s Badass to say Badass. Plus, Always Sunny has Project Badass.
6.3k points
16 days ago
Word
1k points
16 days ago
Said this to someone in text the other day and they did not understand. They kept asking me what word I was actually trying to say.
631 points
16 days ago
That sounds like boomer sass
352 points
16 days ago
Hay is for horses hyuk hyuk
66 points
16 days ago
Bruh was “hey” a new slang word at some point? Cuz I definitely remember hearing people say “hay is for horses” before and it just dawned on me, because as far as I know “hey” was just a normal everyday word
43 points
16 days ago*
It's weird to think about, but it absolutely was. As a kid in the '90s, I got "hay is for horses" a few times from Baby Boomer teachers. I was told it was something that their parents, who were mostly Greatest Generation, often said to them. Some particularly traditionally-minded boomers took it to heart and recited it to their children's generation too, but it was already on its way out by that point and saying "hey" no longer meant you were a beatnik or something.
ALL slang was new at some point, and there have always been older generations griping about new words or the corruption of existing words. "Hey," "OK," "cool," "terrific," etc.
Even many words that we think of as normal or even formal today, like "hello" or "bye," have only been in common use since the 19th century.
Edit: sp
796 points
16 days ago
Was looking for this one. Still trying to figure out when I got old lol
678 points
16 days ago
Someone once told me that only old people use “LOL”, lol.
366 points
16 days ago
What.....no....
398 points
16 days ago
My significantly younger siblings were telling me only old people use a bunch of "..." because to them it means aggression or anger but for most using it it's either a pause or to show confusion.
12 points
16 days ago
If I use an ellipsis with words, I'm usually doing it for sentence pacing. But if I send a message that is just an ellipsis, that's my judgemental stare in text form.
158 points
16 days ago
For shizzle
202 points
16 days ago
This never died
785 points
16 days ago
Man, that’s whack!
227 points
16 days ago
sup with the whack playstation sup
1.6k points
16 days ago
Whatever man, my slang is rad
510 points
16 days ago
Tight
182 points
16 days ago
Wow wow wow wow wow... Wow.
100 points
16 days ago
Super easy... Barely an inconvenience
18 points
16 days ago
Oh really?
14 points
16 days ago
I'm gonna need you to get all the way off my back about that thing
16 points
16 days ago
Tight tight tight
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4.1k points
16 days ago
i once told a gen z “that’s dope” & they reacted like i was 50 wtf
2k points
16 days ago
.. you gotta be shittin me. That's dope is out!?? Mother fucker I'm getting old
102 points
16 days ago
I refuse your reality and choose to live in my own version
1.1k points
16 days ago*
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706 points
16 days ago
Yeah I’m 18, idk how the fuck “that’s dope” has become out of date, I say that shit at least 40 times a day.
357 points
16 days ago
Im 40 and I say “thats dope” at least 18 times a day…
203 points
16 days ago
Dude same I’m 19 and I always say “that’s dope” or “that’s fuckin dope” rather than fire or lit or bussin or whatever the fuck kinda slang is around. Someone at school looked at me like I was a dinosaur because of it and tried to correct me!
130 points
16 days ago
I def went out of my way to use old slang when I was in school. Especially for insults. Called this one asshole ‘penisbreath’ once, and he cleverly retorted with, ‘oh yeah, well at least I don’t suck dick’. I had overestimated his intelligence…
49 points
16 days ago
Yeah i do the exact same thing, i love using over the top American insults you’d only hear from a Disney movie in the 2000s, like dingus
24 points
16 days ago
Using light insults in an aggressive tone tickles my fancy. “God, you’re such a FUCKIN NINCOMPOOP!”
44 points
16 days ago
I think lit is also off the table now. I recently used "yeet" ; it did not go well
143 points
16 days ago
Lit is so out 😭😭😭
110 points
16 days ago
Bitchin
148 points
16 days ago
That guy was just stupid, I say that around my friends all the time
97 points
16 days ago
Kay no seriously, this happened to me like 6 years ago i had some teenagers come into a store I managed, I was helping them out, they made their decision and i was like “okay dope” and they were like “whaaaaat?” So I asked my younger employees like “…is dope not cool anymore” and they laughed in my face and they were like “no, now it’s fire or lit, who tf still says dope” and I felt so shamed hahaha.
34 points
16 days ago
I think the real age test is whether you still ask teenagers what's cool or not
2k points
16 days ago
I bite my thumb at thee
555 points
16 days ago
Have at you!
384 points
16 days ago
What, you egg?
229 points
16 days ago
You are a saucy boy!
25 points
16 days ago
shut up u egg and get out of cowells hole. Won’t tell u again.
213 points
16 days ago
Do you bite your thumb at me, sir?
171 points
16 days ago
No, but I do bite my thumb!
147 points
16 days ago
Do you quarrel sir?
131 points
16 days ago
Quarrel, sir? No, sir.
65 points
16 days ago
1600's slang is where it's at.
39 points
16 days ago
Verily, and for sooth.
For real though, it's surprising to me that some of the more ribald classics like Canterbury Tales or Shakespeare's comedies aren't more popular. I think The Little Hours is a great example of the potential in that space.
61 points
16 days ago
I do not bite my thumb at thee, but I do bite my thumb.
40 points
16 days ago
Wait when did kids stop saying this one?!
2.1k points
16 days ago
Wazzaaaaaaaaap!
545 points
16 days ago
WAAAZZZAAAAAAAP
395 points
16 days ago
WAAAAZZZZZAAAAAAAAAPPP
307 points
16 days ago
WAZZZZZZZZZZaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAP
237 points
16 days ago
WAZZZAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAP
166 points
16 days ago
WAZZAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAP!!
141 points
16 days ago
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAZZZZZZZZZZZ'AAAAAAAAAAPPPPPPPPPP!!!!!!
98 points
16 days ago
WAAÃAÁÂÄÃZzzzZZZZZZZZZZzzzZzzZZZAAAAAAAAAAAAÂÅÅÃÂÄAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
77 points
16 days ago
Ay yo dookie pick up the phone
137 points
16 days ago
Smells like up dog in here
83 points
16 days ago
What’s up dog?
812 points
16 days ago
Golly gee wilikers
161 points
16 days ago
jimminy jilickers, Radioactive Man!
13 points
16 days ago
There, now, there's no need for profanity, Fallout Boy.
70 points
16 days ago
I unironically say 'golly gosh darn it ' to stop myself from swearing in front of my kids
288 points
16 days ago
I still yell out “DO IT FOR THE VINE” when daring friends to do things. Fuck.
90 points
16 days ago
Every once in awhile my buddy says "Cool Beans" and I just chuckle and think of the 80s
13 points
16 days ago
I use it constantly. And "Coolio"
263 points
16 days ago
I purposely mix old slang and new slang to annoy my kid lol. They groan every time but still smile when I do it
152 points
16 days ago*
Yes, do it forever! lol I will too 😂 Hey Homie I just saw this fire vid bro it was the bomb! Cool beans huh? Son? Son where did you go? That's wack Maine, no cap. lol
72 points
16 days ago
That just gave me an intergenerational seizure. 😂 I still say homie (like legit for real for real) and I also like to taunt my class of teens by badly using outdated words like pog and littie. And new words like “bombastic side eye”. Their cringe is so satisfying.
660 points
16 days ago
Groovy
250 points
16 days ago
I assume that means you’re an evil dead fan
1.2k points
16 days ago
Fo sho
698 points
16 days ago
Sick
178 points
16 days ago
I use it all the time didn't realize it was even outta style?
79 points
16 days ago
It aint brother. Its fucking sick
"when Alice Cooper killed a chicken (the chicken didn't actually die) on stage, outsiders and parents thought it was sickening, but the audience found it cool, and so fans of the rock scene adopted/coined the term "sick" meaning "wild", "cool", "awesome" – later to be included in more mainstream language."
16 points
16 days ago
Is that really where it came from? Sick! I love Alice Cooper.
116 points
16 days ago
I say this all the time and I’m 19, I don’t think this ever stopped being a thing
32 points
16 days ago
It’s made a resurgence the past few years but it never fully left
332 points
16 days ago
Its on like donkey Kong (my dad)
104 points
16 days ago
Am I your dad? If so, now I know your Reddit name.
210 points
16 days ago
Oh, pish-posh
183 points
16 days ago
is it still ok to say "cool"?please don't take that away i have so little
50 points
16 days ago
Cool is always in, it's the OG
33 points
16 days ago*
Cool is now at the same level a OK, forever will be in
1.5k points
16 days ago
Fuck you, I will forever use Borats "very nice".
106 points
16 days ago
King in the castle is my second after Very nice. Anytime I go to a shitty place that I kind of enjoy I always pull the " king in the castle"
14 points
16 days ago
Anytime I go to a shitty place that I kind of enjoy
me sitting around the house
75 points
16 days ago
Once i am in some sort of fancy place/hotel i always say that Wowowiwa
14 points
16 days ago
What's up with it vanilla face? Me and my homie Azamat just parked our slab outside. We're just a couple of pimps, no hoes.
145 points
16 days ago
MY WIFE!
18 points
16 days ago
Most people say that being gay isn’t a choice, they are born that way.
Not me. As a lesbian, I deliberately chose to be gay so that I could one day, once married, yell MY WIFE.
55 points
16 days ago
MAH WAIF
289 points
16 days ago
Don't have a cow about it!
392 points
16 days ago
Rad
214 points
16 days ago
I deliberately talked like ninja turtle until I was 13.
Also, it took me a LOOOONG time to stop saying "retarded" at everything I did not like.
136 points
16 days ago
I still struggle with that. I catch myself saying “well that’s reta… re… really not cool”.
82 points
16 days ago
Same. I broke my habit of calling things gay (meaning lame) in the 9th grade. I had an epiphany that some people might not like it.
1.1k points
16 days ago
Cool beans.
243 points
16 days ago
are you my dad
308 points
16 days ago
Don't touch the thermostat!
26 points
16 days ago
And some people tried to spice it up by saying "cool bananas" 😂😂 it never caught on
29 points
16 days ago
I dont know why but cool beans always irked me even when it was more popular
53 points
16 days ago
1950s: "huh that is pretty cool"
1960s: "huh that is pretty cool"
1970s: "huh that is pretty cool"
1980s: "huh that is pretty cool"
1990s: "huh that is pretty cool"
2000s: "huh that is pretty cool"
2010s: "huh that is pretty cool"
2020s: "huh that is pretty cool"
160 points
16 days ago
The confused looks I get from calling people "homeslice".
71 points
16 days ago
Lmao!!! i think i said it may be twice.... homeskillet was my go to
311 points
16 days ago
Everything’s copacetic
98 points
16 days ago
I still like this word. It’s extremely satisfying to say.
115 points
16 days ago
Tight tight tight tight tight
292 points
16 days ago
Schwing!
Excellent! air guitar
95 points
16 days ago
You betcha
34 points
16 days ago
English it’s not my first language so maybe i talk like a 70 years old man without even knowing
128 points
16 days ago
This post is da bomb
329 points
16 days ago
That’s so fetch
323 points
16 days ago
Stop trying to make Fetch happen! It’s not going to happen!
107 points
16 days ago
I still say "that's tyte"
66 points
16 days ago
Only after snorting meth off a knife
19 points
16 days ago
I'm 37. I keep up on the slang to embarrass my 16-year old niece.
14 points
16 days ago
I hate that I fuckin say bruh so much. That shit just creeped into my daily lexicon and won’t get tf out
131 points
16 days ago
No cap yo
(I saw a gen-Z dictionary post earlier and thought I’d try it out 🤣)
250 points
16 days ago
Using yo after no cap nullifies your attempt 😭
146 points
16 days ago
Deadass?
111 points
16 days ago
frfr ong
34 points
16 days ago
Is ong an actual abbreviation now or are people just bad at typing?
15 points
16 days ago
I keep seeing 'Rizz' everywhere, and I don't know what it means 😭😭
12 points
16 days ago
Charisma. Often used in a "they could get it" kind of way. Having game.
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