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[–] 78 points 7 months ago* (8 children)

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

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  • [–] 10 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    God its hard to remember but yes all of those were said completely seriously, not a drip of sarcasm or tongue in cheek. Now it's hard thinking that anyone would say tubular without being completely ironic

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    [–] 57 points 7 months ago (9 children)

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

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  • [–] 13 points 7 months 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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    [–] 57 points 7 months ago (16 children)
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    I hate how that word became pejorative, because it was used correctly. By the way, it's still used in plumbing. Retard is a verb which means to slow, e.g. retard the flow. When you call a person who is developmentally disabled that, yes it's rude, but it means their mental process is slow. The word was being used accurately. It's just not nice to say.

    I don't think "window licker" was ever accurate, but for some reason it's slightly more socially acceptable to say (or imply, e.g. "I will say this for him, his windows are always clean").

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    [–] 48 points 7 months ago (12 children)
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    [–] 38 points 7 months ago (7 children)

    Calling others gay or disabled as a slur.

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    [–] 32 points 7 months ago (19 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.

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    [–] 30 points 7 months ago (1 child)
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    [–] 25 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    All that and a bag of chips

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    [–] 21 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Grody.

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

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    [–] 19 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    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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    [–] 19 points 7 months ago (2 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.

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  • [–] 14 points 7 months ago*

    'mad', as in 'very'

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  • [–] 14 points 7 months ago

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

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  • [–] 14 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    β€œRoflmao” :(

    Also: cool beans

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    [–] 13 points 7 months ago (7 children)

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

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    [–] 13 points 7 months 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.

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  • [–] 13 points 7 months 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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    [–] 12 points 7 months 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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    [–] 12 points 7 months ago (3 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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    [–] 12 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    Dope

    Beefed it / Biffed it

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    [–] 12 points 7 months ago (3 children)

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

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

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    [–] 10 points 7 months 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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    [–] 9 points 7 months ago (3 children)

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

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    [–] 9 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    bae is the one that was really everywhere and then just fell off a cliff.

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