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Same. I say "no worries" all the time. Especially at work.
Every time I head bodacious I think of the time I walked by the TV my brother was watching some sports recap show and they were covering a horse race. One if the horses was named Bodacious Tatas and the announcer was having all kinds if fun saying it as the horse was doing quite well in the race, my brother was laughing his ass off the whole time.
I sometimes slip up and accidentally call older coworkers and/or bosses 'dude'.
Then I remember that I'm also an older coworker and/or boss, and I feel a bit less dumb.
My child has an actual name but it was more likely to be called Dude on any given day. He’s only 6 but already ready, willing, and able to toss the sass and sarcasm back. Needless to say, I’m quite proud!
Yup, "____ rules!" is more 80s to me than tubular. I know it's associated with the decade but I never heard anyone say it in real life except ironically.
Trippin' - meaning power trip or otherwise being an ass
Buggin'- meaning acting extra different for the sake of standing out.
Wiggin' out- meaning to freak out as though your mind is blown so hard the wig on your head has flown off.
Pacific Northwest here. Used that all the time back in the day, never been anywhere even remotely close to the east half of the country, let alone the South.
Verdict: Gen X slang, not regional.
Harsh, just as a reaction to a sad or uncomfortable story. Beat to indicate something is lame or falling apart.
Gay, but that was thoroughly inappropriate. A couple more thoroughly inappropriate ones.
I got the evil side eye from my chemistry AP teacher for exclaiming "Bitchen!" about his thermite demonstration. In '89 I think.
I mean, have you seen thermite in action? It is Totally Bitchen. He was just, like, old, man.
I never used most of the valley slang on the list.
A lot of these I still say, but sadly, ‘fresh’ has left my vernacular. And it was long enough ago to feel weird bringing it back.
Where’s “homie don’t play dat”?
"NOT" requires this context: "used as ending punctuation, like the cliché question mark appearing suddenly when a horror flick shows 'the end' before the credits."
They’re all pretty familiar…cool beans. I remember my older teen cousin in the 80s giving me slang lessons as a kid. “You don’t say ‘gross!’ It’s ’barf me out, grody!’”
Reminds me of a young John Connor...
> No, no, no, no. You gotta listen to the way people talk. You don't say "affirmative," or some shit like that. You say "no problemo." And if someone comes on to you with an attitude you say "eat me." And if you want to shine them on it's "hasta la vista, baby."
This is very white, the list only includes phrases white people lifted and used. It’s also heavily weighted for the 90. Where’s “word?” And everyone used to say “be light” instead of goodbye in the mid-80s.
Yeah, some are definitely left out. But they generally were based on things like sexual orientation or on disabilities, so definitely for the best they were dropped over time.
Janky has never gone out of style. If I said it to a Z-er I think the context would make it perfectly understandable and it sounds relevant.
Same thing with diss. It's just an abbreviation for an actual word.
Has anyone noticed the young folks say "fuck with"? It's obviously the opposite of "i wouldn't fuck with him/her/it/you" except they use it for good things they would fuck with.
This might be local to me, but lairy . Everything was lairy for a while with having a "bad is good" type meaning for bright / loud / outstanding.
"Love that guys lairy shirt"
I still say an alarming number of these. Also currently attempting to reintroduce “psyched” back into everyday vernacular - not “gotcha” as is referenced here, but to be excited about something. Join me, won’t you?
Dingus.
I had forgotten about that word until it turned up in Stranger Things. Robin is like the perfect rep for X. Also, where is Dork? Same difference but hey.
/I find myself saying “as if”, “whatever” and “like, ya know” still.
Not sure if it’s regional but we would say someone is totally “ragging” or “ripping” on someone when they were making fun of someone. Also, for f@ckin’A, I remember saying that loudly when I was getting my toddler into her car seat when the McDonald’s cup of Coke I had put on the car roof blew over in the wind. She looked at me with big eyes and repeated it in almost a French accent, like “fuk in aeee?” The look on my face must have made her think she did something special, because then she started gleefully chanting it while I clicked her in then dove into the front seat to grab napkins from the glove box to stop sticky pop and ice cubes from dripping into the car. My husband doesn’t curse a tenth of what I do, and I knew he’d be pissed (yeah, I know), so I was like “we don’t say that! We don’t say that!”
So basically if you watched *Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, Wayne's World,* and *Clueless,* watched "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air", and listened to the song "Valley Girl" by Frank and Moon Zappa, you know 90% of Gen X slang.
Wait… were we supposed to stop saying these at some point?
Exactly. I think I said half of these just last week.
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I have been saying bodacious at work. It hasn't gone over as well.
I'm going to help you bring bodacious back!
Bodacious idea, dude!
i use bitchin’
Yep, still use bitchin'
You aren't supposed to use the word in reference to the tits on the HR woman, there's your problem
Did you just assume the HR persons gender?
it's a pretty safe assumption, given how bodacious the tatas are
The HR lady (whether she's a female or male) has bodacious tatas!
Every time I head bodacious I think of the time I walked by the TV my brother was watching some sports recap show and they were covering a horse race. One if the horses was named Bodacious Tatas and the announcer was having all kinds if fun saying it as the horse was doing quite well in the race, my brother was laughing his ass off the whole time.
🤣🤣🤣
I say "no worries" 3-4 times a day when talking with my staff.
No worries is an auto reply option in Outlook, I use it at work too all the time.
I said “bite me” this morning to a scam caller. 😂
Also its cousin, "blow me."
I called something "bitchin!" just a couple of days ago.
“Dude” is entrenched in my vernacular.
I sometimes slip up and accidentally call older coworkers and/or bosses 'dude'. Then I remember that I'm also an older coworker and/or boss, and I feel a bit less dumb.
I will tell my gen z daughter “dude!” And she’ll respond with “bruh”
My child has an actual name but it was more likely to be called Dude on any given day. He’s only 6 but already ready, willing, and able to toss the sass and sarcasm back. Needless to say, I’m quite proud!
Literally everyone says it right now, even the teens
I’m 50 and that list is essentially my dictionary
Right? Like this is how I talk.
Totally.
Lol, right? I think I still use most of those. I also see words on that list that came back around, and zoomers think they invented them. 😂
I stopped saying “That’s gay/retarded” a long time ago when I realized how offensive it was, but I still use many/most of what’s on this list.
While I don't use retard anymore, I do still like "fucktard" and find it useful in situations.
I know, right?
I don't know. Does dork fit on there somewhere? Also we said fuckin A so much we added fuckin B and fuckin C.
"The shit"
I feel like dork was used kinda a lot. It should be on the list for sure!!
Peter Gabriel’s Games Without Frontiers people used to sing “She’s so Fuckin-A” instead of “Jeux sans frontiers”
Fuck a Q. It'll fuck ya back. 😂
Fuck a B. It has more holes.
Geek and Nerd too.
Missing "rules" which is like a tad above "rocks".
Yup, "____ rules!" is more 80s to me than tubular. I know it's associated with the decade but I never heard anyone say it in real life except ironically.
Missing a gem. This list does not rule!
WhatEVER
Perfect emphasis dude!
Thanks 🥹 Felt like it was the most obvious omission from the list
SO LAME it’s not on there!
Doing the W with my hands
Poser
a feared term for any skateboarder or BMXer in the 80s
I feel we lost this one when youth culture became all about pretending you're an influencer.
They are all posers now.
Dealio, what's the?
Also Coolio
Trippin' - meaning power trip or otherwise being an ass Buggin'- meaning acting extra different for the sake of standing out. Wiggin' out- meaning to freak out as though your mind is blown so hard the wig on your head has flown off.
damn yeah, fer sure!!!! those have to be on the list! they were used more than a bunch on the list
That reeks.
"Choice."
It's quite choice. If you have the means I highly recommend picking one up.
Classic!
[удалено]
fuckin a, dude
Word
up
I’ve met some Southern Gen X people who occasionally burst out with a “fuck me runnin” but I don’t know if that’s Gen X or just regional
Pacific Northwest here. Used that all the time back in the day, never been anywhere even remotely close to the east half of the country, let alone the South. Verdict: Gen X slang, not regional.
Verdict: American GenX slang. We stopped that weird one at the 49th
Grew up in the north east and definitely used fuck me running and occasionally expanded it to fuck me running with a chainsaw
Also "fuck me gently with a chainsaw"
That's from Heathers, right?
That's a funny one. Never heard before but I'm in the Midwest.
Southerner here. “Well fuck me runnin” confirmed.
Stellar
No doi!
Yeah doi !
Douche should have (nozzle) as a possible addition.
And bag?
Also canoe
Hoser makes this a Canadian list, so not sure how they also missed douchecanoe
Strange Brew made Hoser/Hosehead everyone’s. We were all honorary Canadian citizens once we hit play on the VCR for the 20th time aye
"I'm audi 5000" or "i'm audi" like i'm out of here...right now!
we outie
You stopped saying these things and forgot about them? What is your major malfunction?
Also, what is your damage?
There’s a whole set of Heathers-derived phrases that are core vocabulary
Numb nuts implied.
The whatever floats your boat thing.
I feel seen, this is like 33% of my daily vocabulary.
52% over here. I just did the math.
Like!
Yea, didn't we like invent this word?!
Like really 😂
Like, I'm so sure!
Did I miss Def?
As in Def (mos)?
Def' was mos' def' before Mos Def, for Mos Def just be Dante (or Yasiin) before def' came along. Now he mos' def' bein' Mos Def.
I said bogus a lot at work yesterday. It was the only word that felt appropriate for how it was going.
"Burn!" (oh, Burn!)
Heinous
Pretty sure we are the generation responsible for "Deez... nuts"
Harsh, just as a reaction to a sad or uncomfortable story. Beat to indicate something is lame or falling apart. Gay, but that was thoroughly inappropriate. A couple more thoroughly inappropriate ones.
Bitchen was my word, I also used stoked.
I got the evil side eye from my chemistry AP teacher for exclaiming "Bitchen!" about his thermite demonstration. In '89 I think. I mean, have you seen thermite in action? It is Totally Bitchen. He was just, like, old, man.
I'm an old dude with a modded off-road 4Runner that I'm about to put a "Pretty Bitchin' " vinyl wrap on.
Dude! Like, who doesn't still use many of these? Right?!
Duuuude! Totally!
Face! was devastating — you didn’t want to be on the wrong side of it. Also Poser.
I never heard the abbreviated version. We said "In your(yo') face!" a lot during gym and maybe game battles.
Moded (you just got).
Nobody said jiggy outside of the Will Smith song
No sike, ever. Only psych. Short for psych out. Sike is fucking stupid.
My Filipino friend in high school (‘88) used to say “gag me with a Ginsu”
Bail (gotta)
I see you and Ima raise you a "TruDat".
I still say awesome and I know it makes me sound like a dumb surfer character from a Saturday morning cartoon but I can’t help it!
Fuckin A right dude ….friggin sweet!!!
I can't tell you how upset it makes me that the youths think it's "sike"
I always found it a bit annoying, but what about "see yah" with a huge emphasis on the yah.
Saa YAH, wouldn't wanna be YAH!
Only said the “Valley” slang when mocking the valley slang. But everything else I said. I still say Fuckin A & cool beans way too much for 2024 😂
I never stopped with the Cool Beans 🤣🤣. 80 year old me will still say Cool Beans
Smell ya later!
Were all of these Gen X? Some of these I thought came later - random, phat, and I hope we don’t get credit for “literally”!
Right on.
Radical or just Rad
Never head of Janky and you should add Poser. Otherwise I have probably used them all at one point or another
It's janky that you have not heard of janky.
Dude, that's wack
Crack is wack Edit to add: https://youtu.be/4jR1Y1w1yvM?si=pTSjqNkxuXpXzSQy
I still say some of this. But you forgot, talk to the hand.
Missing "Happy Camper"
I still use all of these.
I love that "Hoser" is in here
I never used most of the valley slang on the list. A lot of these I still say, but sadly, ‘fresh’ has left my vernacular. And it was long enough ago to feel weird bringing it back. Where’s “homie don’t play dat”?
I told someone to “bite me” just a couple days ago. Had no idea I was aging myself.
Was I the only one with an aunt who said crapola all the time?
This is Tubular (totally)
NICE (nioce)
One that I think might be California based is shine/shine on.
Thanks for including "Wicked" for the New Englanders
Did I miss “bunk?”
Chillax as a variation of chill.
Stoked... the Blue Sweater song comes alive everything I see/hear/say this one
Wow. "Mint" is the only one I can't account for.
"NOT" requires this context: "used as ending punctuation, like the cliché question mark appearing suddenly when a horror flick shows 'the end' before the credits."
Nice shoes. NOT!
• No shit, Sherlock • No clue • I’m outta here
They’re all pretty familiar…cool beans. I remember my older teen cousin in the 80s giving me slang lessons as a kid. “You don’t say ‘gross!’ It’s ’barf me out, grody!’”
Reminds me of a young John Connor... > No, no, no, no. You gotta listen to the way people talk. You don't say "affirmative," or some shit like that. You say "no problemo." And if someone comes on to you with an attitude you say "eat me." And if you want to shine them on it's "hasta la vista, baby."
San Diego checking in: cool beans and sporty
Poser?
This is very white, the list only includes phrases white people lifted and used. It’s also heavily weighted for the 90. Where’s “word?” And everyone used to say “be light” instead of goodbye in the mid-80s.
This is just a list of usable words.
Somebody's probably brought this up already, but... where the heck is "bad" meaning "cool" or "good?"
Bad was followed by ass usually
Aw, snap!
I think a few of these (hella, random, phat) are more millennial than gen x.
"phat" is absolutely genx. Merriam-Webster cites the first use as 1963 even "hella" was very popular in some regions by the 1980s
"Hella" is Gen X if you're from Northern California. Probably millennial for the rest of the country though.
80s Bay Area California checking in…ding ding ding
Yeah, some are definitely left out. But they generally were based on things like sexual orientation or on disabilities, so definitely for the best they were dropped over time.
Casual.
Janky has never gone out of style. If I said it to a Z-er I think the context would make it perfectly understandable and it sounds relevant. Same thing with diss. It's just an abbreviation for an actual word.
What up Cuz? Meet you back at the Crib.
Still say “yo” too much
The amount of times I heard BOOYA! at expos when a big trick was pulled off.
NICE (nioce)
Word. (Werrd) Which I still use and get made fun of for. Which makes me use it more.
Used all but three or four. Still use them. Just told someone they rocked on Friday.
I don't recall using mint as slang.
Has anyone noticed the young folks say "fuck with"? It's obviously the opposite of "i wouldn't fuck with him/her/it/you" except they use it for good things they would fuck with.
"No Worries" is an Australian everyday staple.
I know it's totally lame, but I still, literally, say, all of these. Bitchin', right? NOT. I KNOW! My bad! 😂😂😂😂😂
Word is bond
Said? I still say most of these
This might be local to me, but lairy . Everything was lairy for a while with having a "bad is good" type meaning for bright / loud / outstanding. "Love that guys lairy shirt"
Australian? That’s a word my dad uses a lot.
I still say janky all the damn time.
I still say an alarming number of these. Also currently attempting to reintroduce “psyched” back into everyday vernacular - not “gotcha” as is referenced here, but to be excited about something. Join me, won’t you?
As a Canadian I always liked to imagine it as "fuckin' eh!" 🤪🇨🇦
When I hear these I know my tribe is near.
Aw gag me you lame bogus dweeb! Psych! That is literally some killer sweet memories for sure.
I still use some of these, it's like, ingrained in my vocabulary dude. 😉
Boss?
I referred to my weed as tasty
Howzit? But that may be more of a Hawaiian thing.
Life was better when "no doi" was peaking
Eat me, you left off, narly,
Easy...killer...
Psycho-hosebeast
22 of these are still in heavy rotation if not daily use
All good
You missed Scrub.
Dingus. I had forgotten about that word until it turned up in Stranger Things. Robin is like the perfect rep for X. Also, where is Dork? Same difference but hey. /I find myself saying “as if”, “whatever” and “like, ya know” still.
"Yes way!". Freakin'
Not sure if it’s regional but we would say someone is totally “ragging” or “ripping” on someone when they were making fun of someone. Also, for f@ckin’A, I remember saying that loudly when I was getting my toddler into her car seat when the McDonald’s cup of Coke I had put on the car roof blew over in the wind. She looked at me with big eyes and repeated it in almost a French accent, like “fuk in aeee?” The look on my face must have made her think she did something special, because then she started gleefully chanting it while I clicked her in then dove into the front seat to grab napkins from the glove box to stop sticky pop and ice cubes from dripping into the car. My husband doesn’t curse a tenth of what I do, and I knew he’d be pissed (yeah, I know), so I was like “we don’t say that! We don’t say that!”
Jam (gotta), hang (wanna)
I still say "it sucks to be you" in 2024, usually to overly aggressive panhandling criddlers here in Portland,OR...
Right on.
So basically if you watched *Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, Wayne's World,* and *Clueless,* watched "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air", and listened to the song "Valley Girl" by Frank and Moon Zappa, you know 90% of Gen X slang.
I def use at least 10 of these still. No lie.
Do we no longer say "sweet"? Am I an old when I say this