Teen-Speak Translation Thread 2021

[SlightlyJaded]

We haven't had one of these in a while.

I have DC 13 and 15 and we are in a very 'naice' part of London. No matter - they think they are gansta, so I make it my business to try and keep on top of their roadman chat. Some of the ones below have been around for a couple off years and seem to be on the way out but I've tried to include every ridiculous turn of phrase I've heard in the last six months.

PLEASE ADD MORE . We can then collectively become fluent in Teenspeak

Leng: Derivative of ‘Peng’ – same meaning of really attractive/nice/fit

Say Less Understood / Great – you don’t need to say another word. I get it and it’s good.

Drip: Money/Flash/Rich/Expensive. Your trainers are Drip! Check my Drip

Peak: Still very much in evidence – meaning rubbish/awful. Bare Peak is REALLY rubbish.

Lit: On it’s way out I think, but meaning ‘banging/good’. The party was Lit

G-Dot – to do something stupid – esp whilst drunk or high

Link: To get with someone of the opposite sex but not be officially boyfriend/girlfriend ‘Nah blud, we’re just linking” or on social media "Link me!" to someone you like.

Ends: Local area. “Come to my Ends”

Wavey: Drunk or high on drugs

Reh teh teh Blah blah blah or etc

Dench: Derivative of Hench. To describe someone who is bulked out or muscly from gym/training

Piff: On it’s way out I think but to describe someone who is attractive. Gal was a piff ting.

Clapped: Still very much in use to describe something ugly or un-attractive.

Thirsty: Used to describe someone who is desperate for attention

Rents: Parents

Next man Someone irrelevant – said with derision

G/My G Still very much in use. Shortening of the word Gangster. Often used my middle class white kids (as is most of this to be fair)

Lad: Well liked male. A comment saying ‘Lad’ under a post on social media would be a compliment suggesting the male in the photo is popular and well liked.

Motive: A meeting of lots of people/gathering/party

Gath: More informal/smaller gathering of people to get high /drunk

Free Yard Empty House. ‘Come my ends, I got a free yard’

Beef: Ongoing argument. “They’ve been in beef for ages” or "I don't have beef with you"

Finesse: To steal or take advantage. Can be applied to a person. “She finessed my boyfriend”

Ping: To take ecstasy

Bait: VARIOUS MEANINGS 1.to expose someone/reveal a secret/snitch

1. To be clumsy or stupid. “Don’t be bait, my dad will hear us”
2. When something is a bit naff or a cliché. “He’s so bait dressed in head to toe North Face”

Gassed: Still in use to mean happy or excited

Air: Ignore - especially on social. "He's airing me"

Flipping: Selling or dealing anything

Trapping: Selling Drugs. See also ‘Trap House’ – the place where you can buy drugs

Jarring: Annoying

Deep: Serious. Grave. To overthink or be unkind to someone. ‘Don’t deep it, she is ok”. "Don't deep it" meaning - it's not serious

Calm: Nice, relaxed good. Also can be used to describe the state of a friendship or relationship “Don’t worry, we’re calm”.

Allow it On it’s way out but means ‘stop it/let it go’

and Goat means "the best

So you can say"that's the goat coat"

She also made me a sticker for my laptop which said "yeet or be yeeted", which I think is a kind of survival of the fittest thing.

Love this thread, heard most but a few new ones so I can be ahead of my little road man

G-star as a derivative of G/my G.

L-star = loser

According to year 9 in the midlands.

Every day when DD comes home from school she asks "Do you want to her the beef?" So I'd figured that one out, but I quizzed her on the rest and she was able to translate.

I have to admit when DS is doing his wanna be road man impression I can't help dropping things like "you look terribly dapper DS" and "why are you being so coy?" into conversation.

The weirdest thing is when he phones a friend and they greet each other with a drawl of "broooo" and then revert to normal articulate speech.

Po-po = police.
I'm probably the last person to figure that out.

Love it @DadOnIce

Lit - remarkably entertaining
Ps - the means, wherewithal
Air - send to Coventry

My ds speaks like this constantly.

Cut yard - means to go home (apparently) I.e. "I'm cutting yard" translates to "I'm going home now"

I’d add:

Flex: to show off - e.g. if you wear your new Rolex you are doing some serious flexing
Spud that: a fist bump
Drip: style. “Is it the monsoon season?” “No, that’s just my drip”
Dummy thicc: solid, muscular, usually after getting some serious gainz in the gym.

He’s a white middle class 17 year old at an academic school.

@pinbinpin

and Goat means "the best

So you can say"that's the goat coat"

This comes from Muhammad Ali I think? He was the G.O.A.T - greatest of all time.

I mean, kids prob aren't thinking of him when they say it these days But would be shocked if it isn't a link.

@SionnachRua I had to laugh when Craig Revel Horwood used 'GOAT' on Strictly about HRVY's exceptional dance, and the whole room went quiet as if he'd just said something terrible!

Brilliant thread! we are down south and I've heard DD(15) and her friends use many of the words in this thread, I also have family up north and have heard their teens using some words and others. DD and her closest cousin sometimes have to translate for each other lol

I don't know if it's just DD or if her friends also say it but every time she wants to thank us she says "cheers" and I laugh every single time (she started saying it about 6 months ago). Also "Lads" is used whenever she's really pleased with something, like when I messaged her during the news briefing the other day to say school wouldn't be in person for her until the 11th, her response "LADS!!!!". I've also heard her chanting into her headset "Lads, lads, lads" when playing on her playstation with her 2 closest friends.

The most hilarious thing she's ever done though was to give me the roadman breakdown of Macbeth whilst I was searching for a decent version for us to watch, I can't even remember what she said but I had tears down my face I was laughing so much.

I hear quite a few of these when giving 16yo dd3 and her friends lifts. Heard 'dench' for the first time yesterday!

Dd1 tends to say 'it is what it is' hey ho' and 'chattin' shit' frequently.

Apparently 'allow it', 'peng' and 'yolo' are a bit last year.

Dd2 speaks normally😀

We're in Bedfordshire so hardly gangsta central.

Leafy London suburb and my DD, 15, uses most of these. Hilarious!

@pinbinpin

and Goat means "the best

So you can say"that's the goat coat"

Apparently (according to DD) GOAT is the best because it stands for Greatest of all Time.

Facts.

Here it is!

Bate is obvious

[quote iklboo]@teaandcustardcreamsx - wagwan means 'How are you this fine day'? (What's going on with you?) [/quote]
Whoops been not responding to people for no reason in my defence I usually get asked by guys who are usually utter dicks I think I was born in the wrong generation

Road men a bit like chavs, say innit all the time/smoking/etc

Another one in use round here is 'bouji'. (Oh, I sometimes say, innocently, do you mean as in that terribly trendy disco Prince William used to pop into now and again? Apparently not.)

It's been patiently explained to me in mum-glish: 'it's like if you wanted to buy a Kitchenaid mixer? But instead of getting like, a red one? You got, like, a rose gold one? with a diamanté dial and the glass bowl instead? That would be bouji?' If you say so.

I don't know if it's just DD or if her friends also say it but every time she wants to thank us she says "cheers" and I laugh every single time (she started saying it about 6 months ago).

My middle class parents,now in their 80s, have always said "cheers" thank you.

@BaublesAndBawbags so like Roadman for Bling?