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"Rizz", "cooking" and "based" are going to be stereotypical old people words one day
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I'm old and "cooking" was old when I was young.
this post was submitted on 08 Sep 2025
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Nah. It was just cooking
Gnarly, tubular, radical, extreme to the max!!!
Even as a 90s kid I only heard half of those from the Super Mario World Special Zone level titles (along with Mondo).
To be fair, we also heard them from the ninja turtles, and any other kids media and/or commercials trying to appeal to the demographic. Some of us used it sarcastically on the playground, but I don’t think any of us knew anyone who used it seriously. I think it might have been surfer slang that was co-opted by marketing departments?
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if they last... most slang dies in a few years
Even old people will just stop using them, like “groovy”.
"Cool" has had greater longevity than i expected.
Dude, that's totes bogus. Get outta here with that whackness. /s
Yeah. Thankfully nobody says things like "epic fail" anymore
I still do 👋
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Yo dawg, that would be like totally tubular unless the geezers spaz out like lamo rents gettin all agro after gettin to tha crib and finding all da homies having a jammy jam in the hizzie. Ya feel me, cuz?
"cooking" in the context of doing something well has been around for a long time. Think, "now you're cooking!" Or the less common "now you're cooking with gas!"
I think it's just in more frequent use currently. It will be interesting to see if people stop using it after it goes out of fashion with the youth.
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As an old person today, I have no clue what these words mean. Assuming cooking has nothing to do with food. I've never heard rizz. I've at least heard people use based, though I don't know its use.
Rizz = Charisma
Based = Cool; Awesome; Good.
Cooked = Fucked (as in up, not sexually).
Cooking = Doing something (usually good, but does not necessarily have to be).
Sincerely,
A 40 year old Millennial.
'cooking' specifically implies either creativity or efficacy (or both, some novel solution that results in success)
Ah but then there is the phrase "let him cook," which tends to be used when someone starts doing something that seems foolish. I would think it at least somewhat relates to "cooking." If you fail, you are "cooked."
Edit: To clarify, this phrase is commonly seen after someone says something like "hey, don't do that;" I did not mean to imply the phrase itself has an inherent good/bad connotation, merely what has been pointed out that they want to "wait and see" the results before making judgement.
This version of cook seems aligned with "hold on."
As in "it's not yet apparent that what's happening makes sense/is good."
Where's that tiktok linguist kid when ya need him.
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My 34 year-old brother says "rats!" when something bad happens. He learned from our grandpa.
I make it a point to adopt some of my grandpa's lingo. Funnily enough my 18-20 year old students can smell 30yo slang from a mile away and will point out it ages me, but they've never said anything about the random 50s teenage slang I incorporate.
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in the nursing home talking about how I rizzed up the nurses (i didn't)
they already are in black communities, teens see tiktok comments and go wow new slang, a lot of this shit isnt new tho, like bop wasnt new but everyone acted like it was a new tiktok word, neither was thot on twitter or many others, rizz isnt new, its been around, cooking and based? not new at all
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