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blubirde


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sfcaligirl wrote:

since moving to northern cali, i've started hearing/saying "tight" (cool, awesome) and "hella" (means "really" or "a lot") all the time.  ugh, hella is really bad.  i hate that i say it now, but i can't help it!  i can't wait to go back to the east coast and have my friends laugh at me! here's a great one....wicked!  this is a northeast thing, i think- especially boston.  wicked pissah!  awwwww, reminds me of home.... my friend and i call each other "broseph" (guy) and "brosephine" (girl).  he has a TON of slang words that he uses all the time and it's totally rubbing off on me.  he calls it his "slanguage."  i'd give you all more slanguage examples, but i kinda like it that nobody else understands us when we talk sometimes...    

I think wicked is an east coast thing. my bff's fiancee always says "you're wicked smaht" and i picked it up. everyone laughs at me when i say it but so what? it's wicked funny.


Okay mine aren't so much slang as popular sayings. Here goes:


i have one girl friend who always says "whaddup foo?" as in what's up fool. it cracks me up and we say it all the time when we talk to her. we're so white it's hilarious.


we say "cold day" as in cold day in hell when someone mentions something we'd never do or a boy that is super uncute. an uncool guy will walk up to us in the bar and we'll look at each other and say "cold day" and walk away.


another friend and i always say "holla!" when one of says something we agree with. i saw it on some dateline (or some such show) interview with queen latifah ages ago and it just stuck.


"he's got an IC" which means he has an ichabod crane lookin' ass. (i know, english nerds, huh?)


I'm constantly saying "see ya, wouldn't want to be ya." It's gotten so bad some of my friends will pause when i say see ya and ask me where the rest is. i'm so lame.


oh and whoever said "she's such a betty" - that's in clueless too when cher talks about her mom.



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some vocab I learned from my students:


Kickback (n.) an unofficial, sometimes unplanned party with one's clos(er) friends, usually without the presence of parents. I met her at Joey's kickback on Saturday.


Busted (adj.) in a state of ugliness, especially in the sense of one's face. He had a hot body, but his face was just busted.



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Hmm sup (what's up) was popular when I was in high school.


The Bf is into slang and it drives me crazy.  I always ask if he could speak real english after he finishes his slang crap.  He likes hella, holla, dog (pal/friend). He has others but I can't remember right now.


I've heard tight and wicked where I'm from but I think that's because its been on a tv show or in a movie.  Things are slow to get to my area.



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i don't use much slang...


pressed --kind of similar to drew's use. i use it when i don't really care about something, like i'm not pressed about going to that party


ganster (i guess it would sound more like gangsta) -- generally used to describe someone's actions if they do something really ballsy or just generally disregard societal norms. usually used as a compliment i.e. when shopchicago33 slapped the guy on the train -- that's gangster.



-- Edited by honey at 15:28, 2005-06-19

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sick (this one baffled me a little when I first heard it) : awesome, cool


I find it really funny that "kids" today (20 years old & younger) use slang words I used when I was little, like rad, gay (meaning lame). I mean, it seems like the usage of these words stopped sometime in the 90s, and now they're back.


sfcaligirl - I'm from northern CA, and it's funny but I never heard hella until I moved to southern CA and met expatriate northern californians who used it.



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the only one i can think of is "grill" for one's teeth


as in "that guy is hot but he has a messed up grill"



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Ugh, hella is just so wrong. My bf will say "hella cool" just to drive me nuts. We met this really dorky-ass kid in London 4 years ago who claims he invented Hella.


I still say "word up?" but its more of a joke.


My boss always says "are you picking up what I'm laying down?" (as in "do you get it?") She has also coined the term "the Bitter Bus" like "Shelly has been riding on the Bitter Bus since her divorce."



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BrazenCanadian wrote:
Ugh, hella is just so wrong. My bf will say "hella cool" just to drive me nuts. We met this really dorky-ass kid in London 4 years ago who claims he invented Hella.
I still say "word up?" but its more of a joke.
My boss always says "are you picking up what I'm laying down?" (as in "do you get it?") She has also coined the term "the Bitter Bus" like "Shelly has been riding on the Bitter Bus since her divorce."



BrazenCanadian, I laughed out loud at these!! Ha ha. Bitter Bus.

I use most sayings as a joke like "Rock on" to everything, and if I am feeling really hepped up I will say "Rock on with your bad self" This is one my boss and I use a lot. I still say stuff is "cool" , yet get irritated when people say something is "awesome". I know, this is not fair of me.

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This whole thread is cracking me up - I so totally don't like use any slang!!! LOL - I have recently discovered that I use "ya know" and "like" a terrible lot & it drives me nuts when others do it.

I feel very old, very uncool, & very white when I read through these......like although some people have said they are very white using these terms, I feel like suburban mom in J Crew driving a Volvo old white chick.....although I'm none of those other than an suburban dweller.



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well, i am a white suburban girl too, although now i live in brooklyn.  when chris rock hosted the oscars and gave a shout out to brooklyn at the end i was like "yeah!!!" and "but he's not thinking about me!!"


anyway, it's totally possible people use "manpanion" to refer to two gay men.  i guess i'll just keep using it to refer to a boy who's not exactly your boyfriend yet and hope no one thinks i'm confused by his sexuality. ;)


my cousin and i are always saying "holla!" to each other.  reading all these posts was making me laugh out loud.  i realize i say most slang in a dorky way, like "peace out" when saying goodbye to someone. 



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oh, i just used one in tech style and thought i should come over and translate--


peeps-- means people as in see ya later, peeps!


 



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ok, one i used for a bit but eventually gave up on was "loves it!"... invented by nichole ritchie on the simple life, it was her response to paris's "that's hot".  and btw, these posts cracked me up!!!!

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I like to call everyone "Man". Male or female. Does not matter. My female coworker will give me a message and I will say "Thanks, man." Again, I do this as a joke. I reread this thread and laughed some more.

esquiress, I like "peeps". I can never find a way to work it in, but I think it is funny.




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hahaha, love this thread.


My male friend always calls girls "butter faces"- as in, she's hot, but her face...Nice, huh? 


One that I invented and get much use out of- I called hot two guys in my classes "technicals"- as in they're technically very hot and gorgeous men, but because they are fratty bastards or simply not my type, I am not actually attracted to them and would not pursue a relationship if they decided one day to acknowledge my existence.  But damn, my friend and I always go spotting for "technicals" at parties  David Beckham is a "technical" to me- see the Yowza thread in Entertainment. 


 



-- Edited by lynnie at 23:16, 2005-06-28

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tri sarah tops -


I made the mistake of telling my SO about your SOs 'busticated', and now he won't stop saying it.  To top it off, he thinks it's really funny, so he laughs at himself everytime he says it !



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I have a friend who works for Human Resources and she says that a slang term she hears all the time from the girls that come in are that so and so is their "baby's daddy"--except the way you pronouce it is to say "bebe deddy"  --with no apostrophe s on the "bebe" For instance, if Bob and Jill have a baby, then Bob is "Jill bebe deddy"  There is no apostrophe s on the Jill, either.  It cracks me up.

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i think i tend to use a lot of slang.  i guess my friends and i have a colorful/silly way of talking. 


i went back to a bunch of retro words like "rad" (especially rad) and "awesome" and "totally" a few years ago and now it seems that everyone around me is using them again, too.  i love it--it's kind of nostalgic or something.  i also like to use really odd old-fashioned slang words because they are so lame that they crack me up.  examples: boss, keen, tubular, spiffy--"that is so boss!"  LOL


along the lines of "butter face" (which is one of my faves) is "summer teeth."  as in, "have you seen her teeth? some are here, some are there..."--kinda mean i guess.  and like "technical" that someone mentioned, we use "GFF" which means "good from far (far from good)." 


a lot of mine also come from my brother, who has a very special way of communicating.  he usually shortens everything, so sandwiches are "sammies," etc.  we also like to use "fresca" to mean any kind of beverage, especially alcoholic ones that are not in any danger of being mistaken for sodas--like, "wil you please mix me a fresca?" when you mean "a martini."   


 


 



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my ex roomies and i say ri-cock-u-lous instead of ridiculous.  not completely "lady-like", but i think it's funny. 


i feel like there are so many others that i use/heard of....i do like busticated....clever.



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My bf is a bit of a thug and likes to be a comedian, so these are all his slang. Forgive me, if they are not PC.


po-po: the police


deuce and a quarter/ 3 Tons: Someone who is obese/extremely obese


L7: Someone who's a square. Get it? The L and 7 form a little square.


Nosy Rosie: Someone who can't mind their own business


carpet muncher: a lesbian (sorry, if this sounds too graphic)


 



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gypsyfreak wrote:

My bf is a bit of a thug and likes to be a comedian, so these are all his slang. Forgive me, if they are not PC. po-po: the police deuce and a quarter/ 3 Tons: Someone who is obese/extremely obese L7: Someone who's a square. Get it? The L and 7 form a little square. Nosy Rosie: Someone who can't mind their own business carpet muncher: a lesbian (sorry, if this sounds too graphic)  

 


 


Hahaha my bf always calls people L7s.  I think it is from that baseball movie-- L7 weenie.  hehe.



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