this post was submitted on 17 Mar 2026
50 points (96.3% liked)

Asklemmy

53970 readers
274 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy πŸ”

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

  1. Open-ended question
  2. Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
  3. Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
  4. Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
  5. An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de~

founded 7 years ago
MODERATORS
top 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 51 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Radical. Tubular. Bodacious. Gnarly. Basically anything a Teenage Mutant Turtle would have said.

[–] undrwater@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

18 year old daughter just uttered "gnarly" tonight during a horror movie.

We were shocked!

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"gnarly" still exists as a word for convoluted or fouled.

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 10 points 1 month ago

Cowabunga it is, then!

load more comments (4 replies)
[–] FUCKING_CUNO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 35 points 1 month ago (7 children)

I still use most of the hella tight slang I grew up with

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 month ago

hella

i picked this one up from living in california for 15 years and it keeps tripping up the people i talk to everywhere else i've lived since then.

i don't even notice that i do it until someone points it out to me. lol

load more comments (6 replies)
[–] MantisToboggon@lemmy.world 34 points 1 month ago (15 children)
[–] fizzle@quokk.au 16 points 1 month ago

I really try not to say this out loud. Im mostly successful. Its deeply imprinted.

[–] obvs@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

I’ve been hearing this a lot more within the last ~14 months.

load more comments (13 replies)
[–] charonn0@startrek.website 30 points 1 month ago (7 children)
[–] fizzle@quokk.au 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)
load more comments (1 replies)
[–] Mantzy81@aussie.zone 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Surfing the world wide web. Sounds so dumb now.

load more comments (2 replies)
[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And the act of traveling on said highway was...surfing. For some reason. The 90's were stupid, and I'm from there.

load more comments (1 replies)
load more comments (4 replies)
[–] mech@feddit.org 26 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Calling others gay or disabled as a slur.

[–] SaneMartigan@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Also using it for situations of inconvenience. Eg, **The next train is cancelled.*" "That's fuckin gay!"

load more comments (6 replies)
[–] IAmYouButYouDontKnowYet@reddthat.com 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)
load more comments (1 replies)

All that and a bag of chips

[–] RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Grody.

I still call things grody, but it's apparently twee and shit to say now.

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Syke. Or psych. Early 90's kid slang, had a definition akin to just kidding or fooled you but more mean spirited. Said to mark the previous statement as intended purely to mess with the listener's mind or psych them out. Similar in spirit to ending a sarcastically spoken sentence with "NOT!" though distinct.

"Yeah man, you can drive my car. Psych! You're not touching my ride."

The more I type about it, the less "psych" looks like a valid English word.

[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Of course it is. Go rewatch a few episodes of "Psych!" to cure yourself of doubt.

load more comments (2 replies)
[–] undrwater@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (6 children)

We spelled it "sike". No clue why.

[–] phdepressed@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Cause the cool kids didn't read

load more comments (2 replies)
load more comments (5 replies)
load more comments (3 replies)
[–] spacemanspiffy@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Dope

Beefed it / Biffed it

[–] aceshigh@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Dope isn’t a thing anymore? My heart sank a little…

load more comments (2 replies)
[–] Cheesus@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 month ago

I still say 'biffed it' sometimes.

Ex: "You fucking biffed it hard on that last jump there, bud."

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] turdburglar@piefed.social 10 points 1 month ago (3 children)

rad. as in a conjunction of radical, which is also a slang term no longer in use.

people look at me real weird when tell them the cool thing they just told me is β€˜rad’

load more comments (3 replies)
[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I didn't learn until an embarrassingly late age that you shouldn't say "jewed them down" or "I got gypped" when discussing prices, etc. Once it dawned on me what I was saying, I felt pretty mortified, but I grew up hearing them as normal words. It was just a thing you say.

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Most of the stuff that was said back when I was in school were slurs. Like nearly every spoken sentence contained at least one slur.

[–] pillowtags@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)
load more comments (1 replies)
[–] Beth@piefed.social 8 points 1 month ago (3 children)

β€œRoflmao” :(

Also: cool beans

load more comments (3 replies)
[–] Nasan@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 month ago

Fo sho, mostly because growing up made me realize I'm never really sho of anything no mo.

[–] bunkyprewster@startrek.website 8 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Back in the 70s we used to say "fuckin-A" as a kind of agreement

[–] Bobby_shmurda@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)
load more comments (1 replies)
load more comments (5 replies)
[–] watson387@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 month ago
[–] daannii@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

DL

Short for down low.

Never really hear it anymore.

Also

The bomb.

No one says that anymore.

And

Phat.

To refer to a thick gorgeous woman.

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Don't hear "house" meaning to destroy something anymore.

Ima house you.
I'm about to house this burrito.

load more comments (2 replies)
[–] numerator3962@fedinsfw.app 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)
load more comments (1 replies)
[–] Mantzy81@aussie.zone 7 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Nobody says "cool' anymore. It feels weird when I say it unless I'm trying to be tubular or bodacious.

Or I'm hanging with my boys Fido Dido and Cool Spot drinking a nice glass of Sprite.

load more comments (3 replies)
[–] callouscomic@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I once got made fun of at work for using "hella" about something. People are stupid.

load more comments (2 replies)
[–] hesh@quokk.au 7 points 1 month ago

'mad', as in 'very'

[–] nutbutter@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 month ago

Bread. Yes, the word bread. It was quite popular in northern India. We use to call stupid people bread. Like, "Tu bread hai kya?" (Are you bread?)

This was alternative to the word "chutiya", which is a curse word, that we could use in front of teachers and elders.

[–] 64bithero@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago
[–] mushroommunk@lemmy.today 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Phat and cattywhumpus.

Phat fell out of fashion and cattywhumpus isn't a thing where I live now

load more comments (2 replies)
load more comments
view more: next β€Ί