Are you up on your slang? Do you speak the language of today’s youth?
I was at a concert with my (much) younger brother and some of his friends a while ago when I realized that I probably wasn’t as up-to-date on my slang as I prided myself to be. While we waited for the show to start, I happened to mention that I was “totally stoked” to see the headlining band live.
“Totally stoked?” one of my brother’s friends quipped. “Stoked? Who even says that anymore?”, and I was all, Wait, stoked isn’t cool anymore?
I’ve picked up a lot of the more recent slang from trolling the Internets – thanks to various web sites, I know what secks, pwned, flamed and quite a few others mentioned in the article below mean – but the Teen-Talk Buster is making me feel like a bit of a chomper, because there are one or two a handful several terms on this slang decoder list that I’ve never heard before.
Back in my day, a cigarette was a butt, but the youth of today are calling it a durrl. I think of chili as a meal that gives me the runs, but according to this list it’s an attractive girl. The term ‘phatty’ has new meaning; when I was in high school we spelled it with an ‘f’ and it meant something entirely different altogether, but nowadays it’s what you say if something is incredibly good. And since when does lush mean cute? A lush is a cheap drunk; everyone knows that!
Yet reading this list made me feel the way I did back at that concert: OLD. I used to pride myself on my strong command of Slang – I thought I was the shiznit when I told the other moms at the playground that we had to bounce so I could get home to chilly chill with my boo – but it’s not bounce anymore, it’s ‘dip out’. And the kids today, they don’t hang out, they ‘pez out’.
The only pez I know is chock full of sugary goodness and is spit at me by a plastic Daffy Duck head. A right dinosaur, I am.
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A DURRI? WHAT ARE THESE KIDS SMOKING? No seriously, I did not know one of these slang terms. I’m sooooooo old *weeping into my geritol*
Gretchen Weiners and I are very pleased to see that “fetch” finally happened.
kdiddy´s last [type] ..unsolicited endorsements
“G – friend or associate” hahaha. Huh, in mah hood (Or the hood I lived in when I lived in America) a phatty and puff are weed (“smoking a phatty”, “having a puff”)
We were saying ‘jacked up’ when I was 12 (that was 30 yrs ago). As it changes, it stays the same…
Mama Lost
Always a chore keeping up, lol.
Q Smith´s last [type] ..Flagstaff- Arizona
There’s at least one mistake on that list, because “fap” does NOT mean drunk. At least, that’s not it’s most common translation, lol.
I’ve read several of these sort of lists in the past, and they are usually woefully bad. This one is better than many, but they often are pretty dated, featuring mostly words from a couple years in the past, and several “mistranslations.” Sigh.
Another thing I thought of just as I hit the submit button – These lists also always seem to focus on a pretty narrow subset of “kids.” This one is, again, better than some, but certainly not completely comprehensive.
oh wow lol i have only been out of school for 3 years and this is what kids say now a days? haha jeez
Ok, so as a teen I will tell you all that these are not slang terms that we use…
Dis, ice, and crunk are all a couple years old and kids still use g–like “What up G?”– and jacked –like “someone jacked my cell”–
Noob is for 8 year old gamer kids. Basically that article is a bunch of idiot adults–no offense to you all– who think they know teen language. Either that or they got played by some kid, which would be pretty funny.
I’m 15 and I’ve heard hardly any of these. We still use the word ‘stoked’ a *lot*, though. (Although more often than not it’s used sarcastically.)
I like how you guys think you know our language. Hahaha. One thing I can tell you – spend more time on the internet and slowly you will begin to learn it all.
One more thing: urbandictionary.com. If you are an outdated parent it will save your life.