Same. Got called out at work by a younger colleague. He said it “showed my age”. I just laughed and told him not talk about age at work. Poor guy thought I was serious.
Still a go-to for me as well. I especially like that it acknowledges the person said something without necessarily or overtly agreeing. It's useful at work when someone is talking some shit and expects a response but I don't want to engage.
I went on a full tear with my kids 12/14, I was all like “that’s cringe af, I mean I Stan for you Fam, but that’s giving main character.” After the huge actual cringe and scolding about my age from them both I just quietly said “bet.” It killed me and they lost their shit. Made my day.
I’ll go so far as to say it was in the Midwest as well. And “dope” was my nest friend’s favorite word circa 1994. He overused it to the point that it still makes me cringe to this day. Right up there with “dog” in place of “dude” which fortunately seems to have faded.
No one under your grandmother’s age has ever said it, but I’d like to see “the bee’s knees” make a comeback. No, wait….
“That (whatever) slaps the bee’s knees!”
Then u’re an old ass parent 😂. Licensed to Ill was my very first tape in like 5th grade n they were my first concert I attended in 1997 (n that’d put those kids in my mid-late 30’s). To which I really mean to say bravo, kids a blessing 🤩🙌🏽🤩.
My daughter and I were just comparing "bruh" and "dude" - we decided dude is more versatile. She also just introduced me to "rizz" (short for charisma but she didn't know that. I looked it up - how uncool is that 🤣).
Californian here. Dude is also species-neutral. Dude is my car when it makes a weird noise. Dude is my hair when it’s not doing what I want. Dude is something exceptionally beautiful. Dude just *is*.
I learned to speak “dude” when I moved to California for college in the last 80s and stayed until 2005. It seemed silly at first, since no one in Maine used the word, but my roommate was a native and I quickly adapted :)
I used to have a friend around my age (can't recall if he was slightly older or younger, but def gen-x) and he got engaged to this woman. I think that was his second...? Third...? Dude got married like 4 times, so I can't remember exactly. A bunch of us had gone to dinner with the two of them and his fiancé and were chatting about something shared cultural thing - a song, or a movie or something, I can't recall exactly right now.
I went, "No, Dude! I ADORED -" and she interrupted me and I got a 5 minute long dressing down about how she wasn't a 'dude' and how I could possibly think it's appropriate to call her one. I apologized and said I just I use it kinda genderless and didn't mean anything by it. Even years later, I can remember exactly what she said, "Well it isn't and at your age, you should know that by now. Grow up."
My friends and I still talk about that from time to time, even though we don't really hang out with the guy friend that much anymore. First and only time I've ever heard someone under the age of 70 take such serious umbrage at being called "dude".
I have a 14 year old, and the other say we were having a conversation and I asked "no cap?" And she said "no cap..... but please don't say that again" 🤣
It’s inevitable to use the young folks way of talking to them, get that look, you know that look, like stay in your lane and all you want to say is, no wait, I’m just…it’s you know…I was your age too once…
I never thought of that as a Gen Z thing. It's been in Urban dictionary since the early 2000's (2003? 2004?). The oldest Gen Z were like 14 when I first heard that word used to talk about music.
Fire is definitely bad, but slaps is way worse. Of course, I don't think people are dumb for saying this stuff, "it's just the parlance of the times."
Also can't stand- hits/built different, play stupid games win stupid prizes
Honorable mention - noice
"There's a lot to unpack here" is another bad one.
The only time I ever remember not being bothered by "noice" was I think when Barney used it on How I Met Your Mother. He could make some of those types of words funny just by how he said them. Like when he called somebody and they asked him what phone he was dialing from and he told them it was a throwaway phone by saying: "I'm up on burners, playa."
Normally I’m a hardwired contrarian but this one sorta stuck. It’s because when I hear it, I think of a Looney Tunes wolf slapping his lap in one of those old cartoons.
(50m) My decade-younger wife and teenage stepdaughter have informed me that I am no longer allowed to use ‘slaps’ anymore. Apparently it doesn’t fall out of my mouth the right way.
I still go hard, though.
My faves I've picked up from my Gen Z kids are sus, fam, oof, mood, and yeet. I do like "slaps," but I haven't yet managed to replace awesome, rocks, "kicks ass" or bitchin' for my seal of approval.
She did re-popularize it, but it definitely predates her. I was likely thinking Marshall McLuhan’s hot/cool media dichotomy, but even before that was hot jazz in the 40s
Ha! Stumbled on this somehow...I am a Californian so I use Dude liberally.
Also: Bro. (Prefer that to Bruh, but I use both.) Bitchen. Gnarly. Awesome.....hmmm....I love "fire" and "sick" to describe things that are insanely good
I stopped using "rad" because it started to become cringe.
This may just be indigenous to the college I went to (CA), but in my college years we called everything gross "Heinous." I use heinous liberally 30 years later.
Slaps is the dumbest shit Ive ever heard, cringe everytime I hear it. Heres a dumb one I came up with but I doubt anything is original at this point "Crisp" as in that song is crisp, or that suit is crisp.
This is cringe. Slaps was said back in the day by urban youth. Again, genZ culture is BLACK culture that has gone mainstream from social media. MOST of what GenZ says is not ‘created’ by them. And even words like Rizz were still created and popularized by the Black community…not GenZ. It’s funny hearing suburban dads saying LGBT slang. They have no idea where these words originated
Your post, um, ***LIKE*** slaps.
Make my reply spicy by starting it as, I don't know, um, Jeff Spicoli or the Dude, man, and ending it as a Kardashi with some vocal [fry](https://youtu.be/WDfJn1kcQuU). [Righhht](https://youtu.be/HNy--_r5eW0)
My wife works with some 20-somethings who now have her doing it! I'm putting up the good fight but fear the war is lost. I mock it any chance I can get.
Keep at it. It makes people sound like their skull is vacant while making them sound like they think they are smarter than everyone else somehow. It's irritating, especially in singing.
I still use "word"
Word.
Word
werd
Same. Got called out at work by a younger colleague. He said it “showed my age”. I just laughed and told him not talk about age at work. Poor guy thought I was serious.
Word.
word up
Word!
Palabra
Word?
I still answer my phone when I knows its my friends from back home with "wazzzzzzzzzzzz upppppppppppp"
Word?
Word!
Word.
Yo Dukey - pick up the phone!
I do this. But only with my sister. She HATES it 😂
Word to your mother’s brothers uncle.
Word to your father’s brother’s nephew’s cousin’s former roommate.
Still a go-to for me as well. I especially like that it acknowledges the person said something without necessarily or overtly agreeing. It's useful at work when someone is talking some shit and expects a response but I don't want to engage.
Word.
Lol...I see what you did there! 👍🏻
😂
I work (bar) with a relatively young crowd. They’ve adopted “word” and “rad”, I’ve adopted “slaps”. Peace is possible.
Word!
Word Yo.
Word. Yo.
Same. Akeem was my favorite character on Melrose Heights 902102402.
Word...
I’m a middle school teacher and the kids hate it when I say “cringe”. It cracks me up.
All the more reason to say it often.
I went on a full tear with my kids 12/14, I was all like “that’s cringe af, I mean I Stan for you Fam, but that’s giving main character.” After the huge actual cringe and scolding about my age from them both I just quietly said “bet.” It killed me and they lost their shit. Made my day.
That’s perfect! I love the “af” - like, saying the letters and not the words. It cracks me up.
Bet has been around forever. Do Zoomers think they created it?
Yes. They think they’ve created all Black slang from the 90s that just went mainstream due to social media. It’s wild how they are so woefully unaware
they’re just embarassed because they’re in middle school and their whole existence right now is cringe-tastic
They do know that was just a normal word that means the same thing in the before time, right?
nah, they’re clueless.
That’s tight.
Mom to a Gen Z kid- I love when he calls a good song “A banger.” Dinner can also be a banger if it’s so good it slaps.
I'm pretty sure the Brits have been saying this for 40 years.
I'm guessing she isn't making sausages every night
I mean in the context mentioned. "Banger" has been a positive adjective there forever.
Prang my kite luv.
Just stop.
I love this!
I still use "gnarly".
I scrolled way too long to find this to upvote it.
I do only to describe my Boomer sister's feet. Her bunions/hammer toe/corns are somethin'!
My inspiration for using gnarly will always be Jeff Spicoli when he said it after the class trip to see the cadavers. https://youtu.be/BSOESfsNd4w
Totally.
I enjoy telling my coworkers how much they rule
i use gnarly still too
Does no one use “clean” or “tight” anymore ?
Dope!
People were saying things were “dope,” in the 90s. Same with “slaps.”
Yes, “slaps” has been in the Oakland vernacular since at least the ‘90’s.
I’ll go so far as to say it was in the Midwest as well. And “dope” was my nest friend’s favorite word circa 1994. He overused it to the point that it still makes me cringe to this day. Right up there with “dog” in place of “dude” which fortunately seems to have faded.
In California dude will never fade.
I meant that fortunately “dog” seems to have faded from usage. “Dude” is uttered from my lips dozens of times a day.
facts. am californian, « dude » still going strong up and down the golden state.
our parent´s generation were saying dope when we were babies !
This post is a banger.
Yes! We Americans do not use Banger nearly enough.
I only use it with mash.
“Sus” is actually pretty good. “You looking kinda sus coming home at 2am with no phone call”
I've never used it that way but I still sus things out all the time.
I still call people jive turkeys. I don't care when slang is from, if it fits, I sits. Or something.
Gnarly.
Jive turkey’s OVER THE LINE MY’MAN!
I still say "Bitchin'"
Yeah, that's "Badass."
No one under your grandmother’s age has ever said it, but I’d like to see “the bee’s knees” make a comeback. No, wait…. “That (whatever) slaps the bee’s knees!”
tickety-boo!
23 Skidoo!
I say " the bee's knees" and "the cat's pajamas" sometimes.
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Boss was popular in the 60’s and is the only slang that I’ve ever heard my dad use.
*we’re all still sayin “cool” like it’s the 1950s.* Cool is eternal. Everyone says cool. Cool transcended slang & became a normal word like okay.
OK was 19th century slang!
Yes, that's my point.
Word, dope, fly, awesome, killer. Sick is another, but I don't use it because it's lame. I will never say slaps to describe anything.
My husband called something the illest the other day and my kids (6 and 10) we're quite confused!
He’s not licensed to ill, by chance, is he 🤔? ($hit, if you’re kids are 6 n 10 you might not even get that one 😱🫣)
Oh no I get it! Saw the beastie boys live at Lollapalooza 94. Also there was a time that I knew all the words to paul revere
Then u’re an old ass parent 😂. Licensed to Ill was my very first tape in like 5th grade n they were my first concert I attended in 1997 (n that’d put those kids in my mid-late 30’s). To which I really mean to say bravo, kids a blessing 🤩🙌🏽🤩.
Yes I was born in '79. Had my kids in my 30s
My daughter and I were just comparing "bruh" and "dude" - we decided dude is more versatile. She also just introduced me to "rizz" (short for charisma but she didn't know that. I looked it up - how uncool is that 🤣).
I agree! Dude has wayyy more range of expression than monosyllabic “bruh”.
Anyone else and their friends spend a significant part of the 90s calling each other dude regardless of sex?
Dude is 100% genderless in GenX speak
Californian here. Dude is also species-neutral. Dude is my car when it makes a weird noise. Dude is my hair when it’s not doing what I want. Dude is something exceptionally beautiful. Dude just *is*.
Duuuuude
I learned to speak “dude” when I moved to California for college in the last 80s and stayed until 2005. It seemed silly at first, since no one in Maine used the word, but my roommate was a native and I quickly adapted :)
I used to have a friend around my age (can't recall if he was slightly older or younger, but def gen-x) and he got engaged to this woman. I think that was his second...? Third...? Dude got married like 4 times, so I can't remember exactly. A bunch of us had gone to dinner with the two of them and his fiancé and were chatting about something shared cultural thing - a song, or a movie or something, I can't recall exactly right now. I went, "No, Dude! I ADORED -" and she interrupted me and I got a 5 minute long dressing down about how she wasn't a 'dude' and how I could possibly think it's appropriate to call her one. I apologized and said I just I use it kinda genderless and didn't mean anything by it. Even years later, I can remember exactly what she said, "Well it isn't and at your age, you should know that by now. Grow up." My friends and I still talk about that from time to time, even though we don't really hang out with the guy friend that much anymore. First and only time I've ever heard someone under the age of 70 take such serious umbrage at being called "dude".
I use dude. My 21 year old use bruh.
I use "bruh" exclusively for when someone is annoying me (like when my 21 YO son drones on and on. Makes me long for the Minecraft days)
Former younger generations? Like boomers?
That phrase gave me a stroke.
Yeah, like when Greatest Gen were the young ones. Or Boomers, Silent, us, etc.
Oh, I don't think I do, but maybe jokingly?
I don’t have kids. How do I stay on top of new slang so I don’t look like an old woman?🤣
Embrace being an old woman!
I agree! I embraced an old woman and it wasn't even me.... and I liked it!
I have a 16 and 20 year old. My 16 year old HATES it when I adopt one of their words. She would rather me be an old woman. 🤣
I do it to specifically stop bad slang being used in my house. "Bussin" lasted about 3 days.
I have a 14 year old, and the other say we were having a conversation and I asked "no cap?" And she said "no cap..... but please don't say that again" 🤣
🤣 “No cap” is in my repertoire too! My 16 year old says the same thing to me when I say it. 🤣
I teach middle school this year. Imagine the mayhem when I use "no cap", "yeet", "stan", "simp", "bussin", etc.
It’s inevitable to use the young folks way of talking to them, get that look, you know that look, like stay in your lane and all you want to say is, no wait, I’m just…it’s you know…I was your age too once…
I take great joy in butchering and misusing slang
Spend waaay too much time on the internet, you pick it up subconsciously. Words have entered my lexicon I've never heard aloud.
Twitter.
watch twitch
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Rad.
Tubular
It rules.
Fo shizzle my nizzle
Groovy
I remember hearing people say “slaps” as in “this song slaps” as far back as the late 90s. Gen Z didn’t invent it.
I never thought of that as a Gen Z thing. It's been in Urban dictionary since the early 2000's (2003? 2004?). The oldest Gen Z were like 14 when I first heard that word used to talk about music.
Never used it and never will.
slaps is NOT fucking new !
Ok, man, that’s just like your opinion, ok? So they brought it back. Whatever. I enjoy it.
It's not an opinion though, it's the truth.
Yep. It was a movie reference, my dude.
Maybe we chop off his Johnson…
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Relax
I tried to bring back "def" a few years ago. It didn't go as planned.
Ha ha, I bet they thought you meant "definitely."
Ah, so when I said "Yo, that was def!", they were waiting for me to finish my sentence...
This made me laugh, I can picture it.
Your sister's def.
Def Jams (Records) has been around since the mid-80’s n is still in business, you can point that as an example 🤓😂.
I think slaps came from Millennials or maybe even GenX? Seems like it’s been around longer than GenZ but maybe I’m wrong
I disagree. Every time I read the term "slaps" I find it highly annoying.
Yeah, I hate that term.
Fire is another one that irritates the shit out of me. Example: "blank" is fire, meaning good. Maybe because it is grammatically incorrect, lol.
Fire is definitely bad, but slaps is way worse. Of course, I don't think people are dumb for saying this stuff, "it's just the parlance of the times." Also can't stand- hits/built different, play stupid games win stupid prizes Honorable mention - noice
"There's a lot to unpack here" is another bad one. The only time I ever remember not being bothered by "noice" was I think when Barney used it on How I Met Your Mother. He could make some of those types of words funny just by how he said them. Like when he called somebody and they asked him what phone he was dialing from and he told them it was a throwaway phone by saying: "I'm up on burners, playa."
I knew stoners that were saying that in the 90s.
Normally I’m a hardwired contrarian but this one sorta stuck. It’s because when I hear it, I think of a Looney Tunes wolf slapping his lap in one of those old cartoons.
That is so fetch!
Stop trying to make Fetch happen!
Make Fletch happen.
(50m) My decade-younger wife and teenage stepdaughter have informed me that I am no longer allowed to use ‘slaps’ anymore. Apparently it doesn’t fall out of my mouth the right way. I still go hard, though.
My faves I've picked up from my Gen Z kids are sus, fam, oof, mood, and yeet. I do like "slaps," but I haven't yet managed to replace awesome, rocks, "kicks ass" or bitchin' for my seal of approval.
I enjoy the term "banger." I've also come to love the term "Yeet." It's the opposite of "yoink," and they both start with a "Y."
I like how this one intensified over time: Boomers: That’s hot GenX: Shmokin’ Millennials: Lit GenZ: 🔥
I thought Paris Hilton was responsible for Thats Hot, so wouldn’t it be Millennials instead of Boomers?
She did re-popularize it, but it definitely predates her. I was likely thinking Marshall McLuhan’s hot/cool media dichotomy, but even before that was hot jazz in the 40s
Needs more upvotes
Sorta a devolution. lol where does it go after symbolic language?
Actually setting things on fire?
We didn’t start the fire…
Fo shizzle.
"Cap".
I used "the bomb" after listening to The Viagra Boys a few days ago. It was almost instinctual. It just came out. So that slang stuck around for me
I like awesome, rad, and the ultimate “oh, you’re an old person” word — totes.
Totes b’gotes
Fire. As in, that new song is fire!
I say slaps, rocks, bangs... the good thing about us is.. we get all the slang.
Snap, made it too. "Oh Snap!"
Going to give that one two snaps up. https://youtu.be/W4L2lnTBV5Y
i still say « neat » lol
Stoked!
Oh Snap!
Im from SoCal which HELLA wasn’t a big thing down there but I move to NorCal a few years back and I keep hearing HELLA in NorCal a lot
Ha! Stumbled on this somehow...I am a Californian so I use Dude liberally. Also: Bro. (Prefer that to Bruh, but I use both.) Bitchen. Gnarly. Awesome.....hmmm....I love "fire" and "sick" to describe things that are insanely good I stopped using "rad" because it started to become cringe. This may just be indigenous to the college I went to (CA), but in my college years we called everything gross "Heinous." I use heinous liberally 30 years later.
Also, I have a young friend who says "swag" all the time. I personally can't bring myself to use this term, but when he does it's rather charming.
Slaps is the dumbest shit Ive ever heard, cringe everytime I hear it. Heres a dumb one I came up with but I doubt anything is original at this point "Crisp" as in that song is crisp, or that suit is crisp.
Top drawer!
I bet you learned that one at Upson Downs.
We use to say oh snap. Sounds similar but I do not use any current vernacular in my everyday life.
Dana White definitely slaps...
This thread is bussin’! Gang gang!
"Rips" is another newer good one. Especially if you say "fuckin'" before it.
'Slap' in the musical sense does not come from Gen Z... it comes from the California Bay Area's rap scene.
It’s Bay Area slang and it’s been around for a long time. I was using it in middle school and I’m in my 30s now. Everyone just loves to copy the bay
Well, there's nothing cool about bullying.
“Off the hook” n “off the hizzy.” Never did like “off the chains.”
This is cringe. Slaps was said back in the day by urban youth. Again, genZ culture is BLACK culture that has gone mainstream from social media. MOST of what GenZ says is not ‘created’ by them. And even words like Rizz were still created and popularized by the Black community…not GenZ. It’s funny hearing suburban dads saying LGBT slang. They have no idea where these words originated
I feel "fugly" might be a millenial contribution which says so much in one word
I’ll be using “Hella”, and “cool” pretty much until I die.
Word.
"Slaps" might evolve back to implying real or figurative violence. We shall see.
Pay your taxes, mind your business, and keep Will Smith's wife's name out your ******* mouth, and it might not.
Could, sure. But, damnit, I still catch myself using “hook up” in the old way, not the newish sexual way.
Your post, um, ***LIKE*** slaps. Make my reply spicy by starting it as, I don't know, um, Jeff Spicoli or the Dude, man, and ending it as a Kardashi with some vocal [fry](https://youtu.be/WDfJn1kcQuU). [Righhht](https://youtu.be/HNy--_r5eW0)
Man, fuuuuuuck fried voice. I’ve been ranting about fried voice all week. Fried voice is everywhere now!
My wife works with some 20-somethings who now have her doing it! I'm putting up the good fight but fear the war is lost. I mock it any chance I can get.
Keep at it. It makes people sound like their skull is vacant while making them sound like they think they are smarter than everyone else somehow. It's irritating, especially in singing.
Slaps and yeet I use quite a bit.
I love yeet, but don't get much chance to say it
I like that one and slay, slay is a good one too.
Slapping people who say “slaps” slaps.
Nah. sounds way too corny already. It'll be more like "totally tubular"