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)

@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!”)

"weird flex but ok" is more specific than that. It's basically "that's an odd thing to brag about".

Son's mates face was a picture when I told him to Move it batty boy.
Am also making progress on changing beef to hooha.

It was text talk that got me apparently ok is rude it should be okay and but np igy yw makes perfect sense.

I think a "trim" has always meant "haircut"

"Motive" for doing any activity. So- "what's your motive?" means "where are you going/ what are you doing ?"

@Pikachubaby

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

Ooohhh I''m 40 and I know that one! Its generally fictional characters & the specific ship will have a name which is some combo of the protagonists' names. I do love a good ship though (happy memories of me & my friends shipping the hell out of Mulder & Scully back in the day ).

There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pete, Georgie and Dim, Dim being really dim, and we sat in the Korova Milkbar making up our rassoodocks what to do with the evening.

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

Chav is a horrible, condescending, classist word, I find it sad that anyone uses it to sneer at others.

@yellowmaoampinball

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

I'm 40, I don't know why I'm even getting involved I do own a teen though

I think most of these terms are only considered "current" because white kids have started using them.

‘My slime’ - a compliment, means friend or someone important.

Finna=Gonna, as in I'm going to do this.

I'm finna yeet this can in the bin.

Also simp, which is basically anyone that fancies another person.

So I am a "simp" for my boyfriend or I'm a simp for Chris Pine

The quiz went very well... Nobody got 'lean' though some of the really old people doing the quiz (over 50!) seemed quite excited about the idea of trying it...

Amused to see hench (also henny, in Leeds I think) and beg on here. It's 7 years since I heard those working with kids. They used to say "beggin' it" though, just those two words, when anyone said anything that sounded like they were trying to impress. They were brutes, they used it whenever anyone had a remotely interesting thing to say to shut them down. Also creps were trainers, dunno if that's still a thing. You could try watching some Billie Eilish interviews and see what comes up... (I like Billie, I'm closer to her mother in age though, probably terribly embarassing.)

Aw damn I'm too late!

Isn't batty boy a homophobic slur?

Leng is the new peng apparently.

Like ya cut G
My son says this, accompanied by a slap on the back of the neck, whenever any of us have a haircut (especially if you can then see the neck more, so usually his brothers or Dad rather than me).

My 10 year old says Yeet a lot. When I asked him what it mean he said it meant 'to discard an item at high velocity'

My lad’s just told me I’m ‘chatting macca’. Talking shit, apparently.

Was greeted with "yo my slime" by my 17 year old DD today which is a new thing. Previously I was bro or mate

I quite enjoy Among Us 😊

Very unfortunately, in IT security, American's have adopted the word nonce to mean a number that can only be used once (like a SMS passcode). First time I heard it I was wide eyed and open mouthed.

If you want a proper American Lean, you have to use a cough mixture that contains an antihistamine and/or codeine. So night nurse or medised washed down with alcohol

Or ‘yes my G’ 😆

Get them a chair , make it ✨electric ✨