1. This person, place or thing is garbage.
2. This person, place or thing is trash.
3. This person, place or thing is on fleek.
4. This person, place, or thing is fire.
5. Accurate, as a brief response to an observation someone makes that is, indeed, accurate.
6. Legit to convey the sincerity of a feeling. Ex: I am legit in love with Channing Tatum.
7. Low key to convey mild but sincere interest in a person, place, or thing. Ex: I am low key in love with The Rock.
8. Come through, as a means of encouraging someone to continue speaking powerfully on a given topic.
9. When people offer a shout out to a person, place, or thing, and often follow the shout out with a humorous or witty quip.
10. The word thirst to describe a verging on desperate, shameless lust for another person. Ex: My goodness, Channing Tatum makes me thirsty.
P.S. I have a great job idea for young people—youth concierge. Pair a youth concierge with someone probably over 35 who would like to understand current technologies, slang, and popular culture.
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Current favorite: “that’s dooooooooope.” Said calmly in the style of Tom Haverford.
I’ve started adding “af” to the end of things. I blame the first years.
Same. Once I understood what it meant, that is.
I could totally do with a youth concierge. I mean, I recently found out that the fact that I give my smilies a nose makes it immediately clear that I’m no longer a youngster.
As the wizened,old crone of my workplace(40 and a fossil), I’ve embraced peppering my conversations and texts with 70s-90s slang. Do it!!! These young-whippersnappers are so easy to befuddle and shock.
The look on one girls face when I replied to her request for a ride with,” Ass, grass, or cash nobody rides for free.”, sustained my good vibes for at least a week. To be clear I fully support my coworkers and am not mean-spirited, but I’ll use the slang I know and let the youth enjoy their vernacular amongst themselves.
So that’s how it’s spelled. I had one of my fellow undergrads use the term on fleek and I was so confused. I thought it was some variation of clique? Flique?
God. I’m only twenty-seven. This is the beginning of the end when it comes to slang relevancy. Pray excuse me while I go back to 1855 and my research. At least I understand their slang. Mostly.
I’m 25 and I have no real understanding of what “on fleek” means. (I have never heard anyone use it.)
In my (limited) experience it is usually used to describe eyebrows.
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I would love to hear more about 1855 slang…
It’s just a dialectical pronunciation of “on flick”
I liked when people were using “come correct” for a while, but I think that kind of stopped? I haven’t seen it recently.
Also I am really looking forward to having an opportunity to describe something as MEDIOCRE when it fails catastrophically.
YES. Or if something is great: “NOT MEDIOCRE!” in the same booming voice. One of my friends and I do this constantly.
Definitely already doing this at my house.
I like the understatement of the one-word comment. My coach has a habit of referring to outstanding lifts (PRs, records, etc.) as “dece.”
man, that’s not even a whole word. You should just replace it with “emoji of a person giving a slight but respectful nod”
He gives me the made-up emoji ::deadeyes:: when I do something dumb. 🙂
We call bad/blad food “highly mediocre” in my family.
We might be snobs about some things
oh yes! being snobs is bad, but having discrimination on a topic is FINE.
Like how my brother, upon finding out that he was failing history, described the situation as “not optimal.”
hahahah, I use “not optimal” and “less than optimal” all the time for when things are a lot worse than less than optimal.
I love understated responses to serious problems.
I’m a big fan of “sub-optimal” and “non-trivial” for all sorts of things. Also, I enjoy using “that’s…not great,” or variations on same, to cover everything from “hmm, this is not great” to “oh my god everything is on fire.”
I use both of those, plus “non-zero” in a similarly wide range, as in “barely extant” to “as much as possible”.
“It’s all gone a bit pear-shaped”.
Bless you for bringing an old fave back into my life! I’ve been at sixes and sevens without it.
My daughter and son act as my ‘youth concierges’, but if you don’t have children you will need to hire one
They also act as texting and emoji consultants, to prevent embarrassment on Facebook and other social media
You need the OMFG Podcast! It is basically a podcast with a different guest youth concierge each episode.
ya beat me to it! I have learned some of my fav new slangs from OMFG and also enjoyed feeling young and hip for knowing the slangs I know.
http://omfg.wolfpop.com/
The ‘come through’ one is awesome. I can’t bring myself to do ‘on fleek,’ as I continue to use ‘on point.’
Re: “trash”/”garbage” … I really love that these words either mean “wow this person is terrible,” or “look at my sweet child, that lil’ pile of garbage, my trash raccoon” – as a term of endearment, on tumblr most frequently associated with Louis Tomlinson or other members of 1D.
I think this must depend on the general topic of one’s tumblrspheres, because I see it most often about Nux, and also about oneself re: Kingsman or Jupiter Ascending.
I love “low key” and I love “trash” and “garbage”, especially when someone is making fun of themselves. Example: http://matter-eater-lad-the-best.tumblr.com/post/…
Because I can’t figure out how to embed an image or if that’s possible?
I have a tumblr just for lurking, and the teenagers and early-twenty-somethings on there are HILARIOUS. And pretty compassionate to boot.
Here you go!
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well thank you!! saving that
I use ‘legit’ a lot, probably too much.
I legit have a problem with using ‘legit’ too much.
would you say that you are…too legit?
Maybe…so legit that it is impossible for you to quit?
I am here all day for this joke. All. Day.
::emoji of Kermit the Frog’s face when he is particularly pleased with a joke he just told::
This is why I love the Toast comments so much 🙂
I tend to use “totes legit” kind of a lot. I blame my younger hipster coworker for this.
I love describing unsavory people as garbage people. Really gets the point across.
I also add “super” where it really doesn’t need to be a lot. That’s kind of new.
I legit overuse “super”. I’m 31.
I credit Gabe of the late, great Videogum for “garbage nightmare” to describe a terrible person
Ooh, I love referring to horrible work(musical, written, etc) as hot-garbage.
My new fave is to refer to things as “neat” and by neat I mean terrible. For example, ” oh wow, you’re going to an art installation about flip cup. That sounds neat.”
As an old person, I know that I will always be at least six months out of date when I attempt slang deployment. Here is my rule of thumb in determining whether you are also post-slang: Consider “on accident” and “by accident.” If you’re OK with the first, you are still slang-capable! Congratulations! If the latter is obviously the only choice, no slang for you. It hurts a little bit at first, but then you’re OK. Remember, we got to have the 1980s on the first go-round!
Thumb rule amendment: If you personally would never say “on accident” (BECAUSE IT’S WRONG) but your friends say it all of the time, then you are slang-capable. Don’t roll your eyes at me, young lady!
You’re blowing my mind here, mostly because my brother used to say “on accident” when he was a toddler (in about 1990) and got corrected for it constantly. IS THIS A THING PEOPLE SAY NOW.
From my observations: yes. My sample group is three kids in their early-to-mid 20s and all of their friends. And the internet.
Huh. I guess I am With It, because I would never say “by accident.” Like, it doesn’t register as wrong to me, but I pretty much always go with “on.”
I think “bored of” also means slang-capable, while “bored with” means you aren’t.
I would never and have never said “on accident”. I don’t know anyone who says it. I’m not slang-capable! (Or possibly I’m just British.)
I exclusively say “accidentally,” to avoid the whole on/by thing altogether.
Lately I am low key obsessed with using the phrase “low key obsessed”; luckily it hasn’t gotten as bad as my tendency to want to tag everything I reblog on tumblr as “same.” (Relatable text post: #same. Picture of tswift making a funny face: #same. Flowers: #same.)
I’ve fallen victim to #same as well! Sometimes I even branch out with #about me.
BAE! I love bae. I have no idea if I use it right but I don’t care.
I saw “bae” used as an adjective the other day, i.e., “these songs prove she’s bae.” And I was confused because I thought it was a noun?? You’re my bae. My bae did this. Ohhhh, bae! etc.
KIDS THESE DAYS.
I have a coworker whose initials are BAE and every time I see them on drawing or procedure he’s approved I giggle to myself.
35 seems like kind of a low bar, but I do work with teenagers and get exposed to this kind of thing pretty much every day.
I have never heard “come through” used in that sense but I legit love it.
I do social media for the undergraduate library where I work. Every pop culture referencing, slang deploying post I make is an excercise in terror.
Maybe you should make a contest for the work-study kids where they get to offer up potential posts. Course, they could still totally troll you, and you might not even know, but hey, if your library’s feed gets funny enough, then maybe it’s all for the best?
Oh god I work with teens and every time I think I’ve got enough of a handle on the newest slang to deploy it in public with them, I’m at least six months out of date. Luckily my teen crew finds me mildly amusing in an eyeroll-y kind of way. I’m a pathetic adult, but I’m THEIR pathetic adult.
i love “come through” and its cousin, “go off!” but i have never used either myself.
what is the origin of come through?? i’ve been wondering about it–i had never seen it before caitlyn jenner’s vanity fair cover and suddenly everyone on facebook was saying it!
violet chachki (winner of this season of rupaul’s drag race) said it during an episode and it took off
Is “come through” a standalone phrase? I’ve never heard this one.
i’ve seen it in tumblr tags, but not as often as “go off.”
i.e: #come through #go off #tell em girl
Smoll! I love to say things/people are smoll (meaning kind of meek and diminutive on purpose but also really cute and endearing).
god bless tumblr for teaching me most of these and keeping me young.
“Pair a youth concierge with someone probably over 35”
I find that younger cousins are ideal for this, if you have any. (I’m slightly less uncool to them than, say, their parents, so they answer my embarrassing questions with patient and amused tolerance).
I always thought “low key” meant more like, “don’t tell anyone, but…”
For example, I low key like Miley Cyrus unironically.
it’s evolving!
So like on the DL?
It totally could mean that! I basically just used context to understand these words.
We were trying to decide how to describe intensity of indifference, and if that was at all possible, like how hard can I not care at all about a thing? One daughter decided she was consumed with indifference of ten thousand suns.
I am terribly behind, as in I am still keeping things “on the down low, ” telling people to “check themselves,” and referring to things as ‘cool’ or ‘awesome’. But isn’t English a wonderful language?
I am really enjoying a good FOH when something or someone needs it.
‘Garbage people’ is my new favorite.
Overheard recently: “I like your outfit today; you’re really zoning.” Is that a thing now? Like…in the zone, maybe? Youth concierges, attend!
In a combo of numbers one and four, I’ve heard things called “hot garbage.” It’s not good.
Maybe someone here can explain to me why I spend most of my free time on tumblr with the yoots but I still recently caught myself suddenly describing myself as “jazzed” a lot.
You may have mistaken low key for Loki.
After slow-fading on LiveJournal, I’ve been struggling to keep up with my internet slang. The Toast and Butter are legit the only ways I stay relevant and hip with the youths.
And I say “valid” instead of “accurate,” because I worked with a guy who would say that, accompanied with a pointed finger worthy of a Sassy Gay Friend, so it fills me with nostalgia now.
I enjoy the term “Come to Jesus” to describe a conversation where you chew someone out / get them to stop being garbage.
Does anyone remember “come through” meaning “come by” or “come over”? One of my more regrettable regular booty calls used to say that. But in like, a totally low key way. 😉
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i've seen it in tumblr tags, but not as often as “go off.”i.e: #come through #go off #tell em girl