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)

Say mums (swear on mums live)

I am a noob and clearly, unequivocally extra, not to mention sweating it. And yes, this is all about old people looking extra too when they assume that these are all drug references

Ewww lol

So many of these are cringingly out of date.

I suppose that’s the whole point though, that us parents don’t ‘get it’

Sick thread OP.

Sick as in, really rather good actually.

Just placemarking out of interest because I don't know anyone under the age of 40.

OP is sus

I have the pleasure of having my sibling and all their friends at my house all the time, it does make me smile when they act like they're the coolest generation, inventing slang etc. They make me feel ancient when they ask how I know a word I'm only 27 ffs.

But i remember the shock I felt when my mum joined in our conversation in backslang 😳

Do people think that some of this slang is regional?

My DS is 15 and rarely comes out with many of these slang words. He uses ‘neek’ now and again and ‘sweat’ but that’s about it. We are near Manchester. Maybe he uses other slang with his mates in school and just not at home so I don’t hear much of it.

He told me off for trying to be ‘down with the kids’ by using the word ‘banter’. He got told to sod off, my generation have been using the term for years and I’m 51.

Peng ting fam

Tea is gossip or also sex
Adding -n't onto anything makes it a negative eg he was happn't means he wasn't happy 🤷‍♀️
Pronouns. It's all about the pronouns (they/them)

Peng is only used by the 'chavs' (DD's words)
Yeet is still used sometimes

Peng is soooo 2015. And we were saying extra back in the 80s! I think a lot of these are new to the provinces...

Lucy I do think its regional and age. Peng for example here is used by young "roadman" and everyone is "my slime"

We have cousins in Birmingham and apart from the universal tik tok etc ones the slang varies quite a lot.

I don't think I can add any as we spill the tea, but we have a lot of daayaam going on. Can't just say damn.

Not one I want to encourage but when you mentioned Lean, there is another one, Sprite and cough syrup is called a Sizzerup.

@JustAnotherPoster00

OP is sus

Hahaha - that is all I hear at the moment! Have you been in the vents?

(This is from a game called Among Us)

@Pikachubaby

Everyone is called a “nonce“

When you respond to something in unexpected way, it’s a “weird flex, but ok”

Everything is “a mood”, seeing a cat asleep in the sunshine, someone walking in the rain: or whatever “that’s such a mood”

And everyone says they are obsessed with something if they vaguely like it (Omg I am obsessed with your hair!”)

Yes my son calls me a nonce if I give him a hug

How are some of the still current when we used to use them as teens and I’m 38 now !

Big oof.

@JustAnotherPoster00

OP is sus

ha ha ha...it was purple :)

OP, how dare you suggest that squishmallows are toys of dubious taste!
Hope the quiz went/goes well!

"Air" is ignore. "Y u airing me" no punctuation obvs as they don't use it.

Yeet is not as popular as it was 2 years back but ds(5) still loves it.

Nonce=paedophile as far as I know and mine are told not to use it. I used it about 12 years ago to my now exH and he was horrified. To me it meant silly person but he was for once right and it does/did mean paedophile.

DS(9) has just started using Yeet. I had to google what it meant
And nonce definitely means paedophile.

@tiredeyesyeah

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

Same. I bet maybe 10% of these are things that teens actually say.

Poggers used all the time by ds13 (tonight's tea was poggers - go me!)

Dd17 says Dench is the new hench (rhymjng slang) and anyone older than you who speaks to you is a nonce 🤔