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[–] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 51 points 4 weeks ago (6 children)

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

[–] undrwater@lemmy.world 10 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

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

We were shocked!

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 11 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

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

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[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 10 points 4 weeks ago

Cowabunga it is, then!

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[–] FUCKING_CUNO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 35 points 4 weeks ago (7 children)

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

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 6 points 4 weeks 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

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[–] MantisToboggon@lemmy.world 34 points 4 weeks ago (15 children)
[–] fizzle@quokk.au 16 points 4 weeks ago

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

[–] obvs@lemmy.world 6 points 4 weeks ago

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

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[–] charonn0@startrek.website 30 points 4 weeks ago (7 children)
[–] fizzle@quokk.au 16 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] Mantzy81@aussie.zone 7 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Surfing the world wide web. Sounds so dumb now.

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[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 weeks 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.

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[–] mech@feddit.org 26 points 4 weeks ago (7 children)

Calling others gay or disabled as a slur.

[–] SaneMartigan@lemmy.world 10 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

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

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[–] IAmYouButYouDontKnowYet@reddthat.com 22 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)
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All that and a bag of chips

[–] RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 15 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Grody.

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

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[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 15 points 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (2 children)

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

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[–] undrwater@lemmy.world 5 points 4 weeks ago (6 children)

We spelled it "sike". No clue why.

[–] phdepressed@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Cause the cool kids didn't read

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[–] spacemanspiffy@lemmy.world 10 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

Dope

Beefed it / Biffed it

[–] aceshigh@lemmy.world 6 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

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

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[–] Cheesus@lemmy.ca 6 points 4 weeks ago

I still say 'biffed it' sometimes.

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

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[–] turdburglar@piefed.social 10 points 4 weeks 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’

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[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 10 points 4 weeks 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.

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[–] TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.ca 9 points 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] Beth@piefed.social 8 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

β€œRoflmao” :(

Also: cool beans

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[–] Nasan@sopuli.xyz 8 points 4 weeks ago

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

[–] bunkyprewster@startrek.website 8 points 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] daannii@lemmy.world 8 points 4 weeks 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.

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[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 8 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

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

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

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[–] numerator3962@fedinsfw.app 8 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] Mantzy81@aussie.zone 7 points 4 weeks 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.

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[–] callouscomic@lemmy.zip 7 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

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

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[–] hesh@quokk.au 7 points 4 weeks ago

'mad', as in 'very'

[–] nutbutter@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago
[–] mushroommunk@lemmy.today 5 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Phat and cattywhumpus.

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

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