Teach Me Teen Lingo

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just curious how you all were when you had kids? You obviously use the internet so you could learn these same slang words and try to stay “hip”. Not trying to be rude but seriously some of this stuff is so basic.

This is the Internet.

[Anonymous]

my tween used baddy bacca for a minute, then it was done.

The lingo changes daily, don't try to keep up. No cap.

[Anonymous]

"Yeet" isn't new anymore, but it cracks me up every time one of them says it.

Agree that no teenager appears to know what aesthetic means.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What’s yassify?

To make something into yaaasssss qween!

Glow it up

Glam it up

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The youngsters say things are "tight" or "the bomb" when it's really good. They are skeptical of "ho's" (promiscuous women), and "oh for real?" is an exclamation of surprise. You may here them talking about their "dawgs" (friends), or the "beyotches" (women they don't like). "Broke ass" is an insult they like to use. You may also here them say something like "that sh*t is DOPE" which also means really good. Okay you're up to date on lingo

Thank you for cracking me up!

My teen says "boi" (carries out the "oi" sound at the end) after many sentences, sort of for emphasis. I'm not sure this is really new, but it's new for her. She was big into "sussybacca" for a while too as another poster mentioned.

I say this when talking to my dog, who is a good boi. I am 50. My teens don't say it anymore!

[Anonymous]

Honest advice- 90% of teen slang today is not difficult to translate the intended meaning. Just listen and place it in the context of the conversation. Half of them use the slang incorrectly the first few times anyway. If something really is confusing you, just ask them.

[Anonymous]

Bet means ok. Have no idea where it came from.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's been awhile since I read a thread that was so inane and clueless. People who think they know what they're talking about bringing up ancient expressions such as "blow me" and "roll a joint" as if they are new???

I mean....I'm in my 60s and this thread is just ridiculous! "Teach Me Teen Lingo" ??????

Some posters are trolling, dear.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"Yeet" isn't new anymore, but it cracks me up every time one of them says it.

Agree that no teenager appears to know what aesthetic means.

In my house, aesthetic apparently means tearing your room apart and redoing it on a regular basis (without throwing away the old stuff, you just let it pile up in a corner that you strategically avoid capturing in the fram when taking photos for your snap.) Oh, and anything I buy for her or suggest for her or even look at it for longer than 3 seconds is definitely NOT her aesthetic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"Yeet" isn't new anymore, but it cracks me up every time one of them says it.

Agree that no teenager appears to know what aesthetic means.

My absolute favorite, though not new, are 'yeet' and 'yoink', which basically means to give and to take. i.e. "Moses was yoinked out of the water by Pharoah's daughter" and "Moses yeeted that septer down and it became a snake'. I say this bc this is what a teen said to me when I was teaching Hebrew school.