Do you use current phrases and "hip" words?

[Jill in Chicago]

I am so not hip I don't even know another word to describe current other than hip! I'm 53 and many times when I hear people use these words it seems very forced. For instance, "Shut the front door." That one throws me every time.

I teach middle school students and I explain that if I have to look up what it means, don't use it. That always makes them laugh because they know how "un-hip" I am.

Last winter, when the weather finally cleared I texted a much younger friend, "I am so glad boot weather is over." My friend said, "No more boots. I love my boots!" Um, I meant boots, as in snow boots, not the fashionable boots.

The other day someone said, "Cray Cray." (Did I even spell that correctly?)

Do the phrases grab you right away? Take awhile? Just a few, your favorites? Rarely?

 

[Oodalally13]

I'm 30 and I guess that makes me unhip too! I use some of the phrases from my teen years like "whatever" and "duh". I get mad enough when grading papers and students write in text lingo but to now speak it as well? "B t dubs" for btw for by the way? Or "totes adorbs" for totally adorable?

There was one when I was in high school that I thought was just asinine and I don't know how to spell it, but it sounded like ch-weck but all ran tof ether....chweck... It meant messed up

My student have been using the term ratchet to mean nasty or messy. I had to explain to them ratchet is a noun and a tool; wretched is an adjective we could use to describe a person. Then I said we could also use one on the other and say the ratchet is wretched and they were completely lost....

 

[Gumbo4x4]

I still can't get used to "disrepect" as a verb.

 

[robinb]

Same.

 

[disney world dreamer]

I am so not hip I don't even know another word to describe current other than hip! I'm 53 and many times when I hear people use these words it seems very forced. For instance, "Shut the front door." That one throws me every time.

I teach middle school students and I explain that if I have to look up what it means, don't use it. That always makes them laugh because they know how "un-hip" I am.

Last winter, when the weather finally cleared I texted a much younger friend, "I am so glad boot weather is over." My friend said, "No more boots. I love my boots!" Um, I meant boots, as in snow boots, not the fashionable boots.

The other day someone said, "Cray Cray." (Did I even spell that correctly?)

Do the phrases grab you right away? Take awhile? Just a few, your favorites? Rarely?

i'm nearly 29.
i only jokingly use today's slang (unlike some teens who say it with a straight face)

i will use omg and lol when i type but i'd never actually SAY those things.

btw i don't think shut the front door is today's slang.
i do say that quite a bit but thats cuz its an ongoing inside joke with my family.

i live with my 16yr old niece and she doesn't even use most of today's slang.

yes its cray cray or cra cra.

 

[perditax]

Yes. My eyebrows are on fleek.

(I am pretty old but I work in tech at a video game studio surrounded by milennials, plus I'm basically plugged straight into tumblr culture due to some fandoms I'm involved in.)

 

[lizabu]

I only use words like that when I'm trying to annoy my teens. I took my DD and my mom shopping and we went into Sephora and there are maracas and pencils you name it for eyebrows and my mom wondered what that was about, I told her I saw on Inside Edition there is this fashion blogger with a YouTube channel who made eyebrows important and she invented calling eyebrows on fleek when they look good. My DD couldn't stand it and said that not what happened and she didn't invent on fleek. I knew that but I was messing with her like I do.

 

[Oodalally13]

Wow I don't even know what on fleek means. As an aside on the eyebrows..here in south Texas overdrawns, shaped, sharpie or tattoo looking eyebrows are called chola brows. Meaning ghetto gangster thug type person

 

[Southernmiss]

Only use them to bug my kids. I've heard cray cray and ratchet for a few years now.

Dd13 used 'on fleek' in an essay contest last month and she won! That was the first time I heard that one.

 

[perditax]

I've seen chola brows, and also Instagram brows is a thing.

Knowyourmeme is a great resource:

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/eyebrows-on-fleek

 

[AustinTink]

Wow I don't even know what on fleek means. As an aside on the eyebrows..here in south Texas overdrawns, shaped, sharpie or tattoo looking eyebrows are called chola brows. Meaning ghetto gangster thug type person

I'm from South Texas. Those chola brows are something else, or should i say they are "cray, cray"!

 

[Squirlz]

I see a lot of that and it demonstrates such a lack of original thought.

 

[lizabu]

Thin brows are not popular anymore. Girls want a thicker brow now. I bet those girls who tattooed them regret it now. Another one is calling things basic. One of them most insulting things you can call a person is a basic b-word. If you want to keep it g-rated you can say something is so basic. It means it's not impressive.

 

[LBIJim]

Are "groovy" and "far out, man" still current and hip?

 

[lizabu]

Are "groovy" and "far out, man" still current and hip?

Totes

 

[LBIJim]

Thin brows are not popular anymore. Girls want a thicker brow now. I bet those girls who tattooed them regret it now. Another one is calling things basic. One of them most insulting things you can call a person is a basic b-word. If you want to keep it g-rated you can say something is so basic. It means it's not impressive.

Thanks...I had no idea what "basic" means...or for that matter, "meta".

And why is any simple suggestion or tip a "hack" these days?

And don't disrespect me by saying I'm not kewl.

 

[Saimaeve]

I do. Not seriously. But part of my job requires me to be familiar with slang and current phrases. Urban Dictionary is one of our most often used tools.

 

[StephMK]

LOL, I work with 6th graders and hear a lot of these. THOT = that hoe over there. Musty is another big one they use to insult someone else. You musty or It is MUSTY in here. My own kids are a few years older so they are a good resource for what's popular. Usually if one of my students asks if I know what something means, there is usually some slang meaning I need to figure out pretty quick. They also use lots of meme or vine jokes & terms.

Totes adorbs drives me nuts and no, I don't use most of the "new" slang.

 

[denisem]

I will go to the grave having never been "hip".

 

[DIS_MERI]

Rachet threw me for a loop about 2.5 years ago. I thought DD18 had misheard "wretched" (which is probably where it started from) and was just using it wrong, or was referring to a socket wrench. I do like to drive my 6th grader crazy by saying stuff like adorbs, but was never "hip;" I was a nerdy kid and grew up in Owen County, IN (did you see Porter Ridge on Discovery Channel? Yeah. There).