Latest teen slang/fads

[MNOverinvestor]

I've got to come up with a round for a lockdown quiz tonight on latest kid/teen and post-teen slang or fads (it's meant to baffle out of touch parents)...

So I'll be asking what is a Squishmallow in the hope they think it's a cult drug when it's actually a toy of dubious taste... And asking what a lean is (a US trend of vodka with cough medicine). Any others very gratefully received... thank you (why did I ever agree etc etc)

Thanks 😊

Oh, and if you’d like to see two people get together you “ship them”, I really ship Mr Darcy and Elizabeth personally 😄

Yeet... throw..

If I say yeet at work in the warehouse, they think it is hysterical 😂

@TawnyPippit wagwan comes from the West Indies and literally means 'what's going on' I know this from my Barbados trip last year (and my 17yo uses it).

Can't add any new ones although I do sometimes think my daughter is speaking a completely different language!

Aaargh some of these are so over!! Nobody under 25 ships anybody and noob is Middle Aged language!

Neek is the latest one I've heard. It's an insult apparently being a cross between a nerd and a geek

They do use noob in gaming but it's not young person speak

@CodenameVillanelle ‘So over’, nice! .

I love it when grown adults try and out cool each other on these threads. It's so cringe.

Most of these sayings are back from my day and I'm only 28.

I’m old. We’re not trying to pretend we’re young or that we’re down wiv the kids. We are just having a laugh at our own expense. Try not to be offended.

I think yellowmaoampinball is throwing shade at this thread.

Yeah, speaking for myself I don't really need telling that I'm old and out of touch. I'm 44 and couldn't have any less interest in trying to be down with the kids. I'm literally just reporting the words my teens use.

If it makes pp happy though, I'll be sure and tell my teenagers they're so 2010.

Ha! Throwing shade at codenamevilanelle tbh. People like that always turn up on these threads to do a teenesque eye roll about how out of touch everyone is

Boojie. Meaning (I think) a bit fancy pants. When dd first said it I said “do you mean bourgeois?” Got major eye roll.

Long - boring, dull, not worth bothering with
Peng - great (thing or a person) (also lit)
Free yard - no one's home
Motive - gathering
Bare - very

They all seem to be into tik tok at our school and saying "like the cut of your G" then giving the other person a slap across the back of head when they have a fresh hair cut!

ohWhat that really made me

Fam... Doesn't mean family, it means friends or a certain group/community. "My dance fam"

Stan as a verb.

Fire or "gives me life". Like: "Your hair is fire." "Australian wine gives me life"

Flex, as someone upthread said.

Umm... Writing acronyms like: mf, ngl, jfc

Lit- exciting

Creps are trainers

That's an L- response to someone doing something stupid (L = loss)

TikTok will be your friend when it comes to fads

Sweat =to try hard. "Mums such a sweat at othello/scrabble"

OhWhatFuckeryIsThisNow boojie does come from borgouise - i had to look it up when Marion Keyes used it loads in her latest book. Lol.

@CoffeeNights

Yeet... throw..

If I say yeet at work in the warehouse, they think it is hysterical 😂

My 7year old DS has started doing this. "YEEEEEEEEET" when kicking or throwing something. I was v.v.confused and as he's picked it up from kids with older siblings he doesn't fully understand it either, took a while to work it out

@TicTacTwo I think L = loser.

As some have said upthread there is a massive difference between the words used by a 15 year-old and the words used at primary school.