Teenage slang translation thread

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This is what I have learned this evening...

Beast = very good.
Peak = rubbish, unfair.

If anyone can add anything else, please do, in the interests of helping me understand what my son is saying to me.

this thread is hilarious. I haven't got a bloody clue without the translations/definitions attached!

Fascinated by this. I don't have a teenager yet (although the attitude and the grunting would suggest otherwise) but we have the opposite - DS talks like a 1950's school story. The first time he said "golly" DH and I nearly fell off our chairs with badly suppressed giggles. His current favourite is "pips" (=pipsqueak =easy as in "that test was pips")

I blame the school

DH is a teacher. He actually comes out with things like 'wasteman' in context sometimes. He is claerly spending far too much time picking up slang in the playground...

my 11 year old tried to explain something to me then said - "are you picking up what I'm laying down?"

I gave him an icy smile and told him to never dare to talk to me like that again.
It was so difficult not to laugh in his face, so I went to the bathroom, shut the door, stuffed a towel in my mouth so he couldn't hear me ROFL

I'm here to learn more

Love this thread!

Some of these were being used when I was at school...

Butters makes me laugh when DS1 (18) comes out with it. But I often have to ask for translation cos there are always new ones. Dank is good!
Hench is fit and muscly. When he has had to wait for something he says 'I've had to wait time, man'! 'Wasteman' is another one, when he is disgusted with someone.

It seems like it is all over England anyway, how about Scotland and Wales?

There was 'bare people' there, means there was a big crowd!

I actually said back to him, 'What you mean they had no clothes on'?
(The first time he said it)

Have we had 'Braaaaap'? Don't really think it means much, just something Grime MC's 'spit in der bars, ya dun know'

I'm taking notes!

Have we had 'owned' meaning that someone's got the better of you.

Marz, give us some Irish slang then!

My daughters use 'owned'. They also spent a whole Sunday lunchtime explaining that if somebody tells you a deeply dull anecdote you should respond with 'cool story bro' - which means you've 'owned' them

Suffice to say I get 'owned' frequently.....

owned is so over. Pwned is popularrrrrr among my gamer teens.

bare peas = lots of money

keeno - a swot - someone who too keen or enthusiastic.

suave - used ironically like if someone trips over.

snazzy!

Ds1 once asked me to admire his new deodorant

I was told to say 'sic pits dude'

I've heard my dc's calling each other 'bra' as well, I thought they'd just got it wrong!

To graft - to fancy someone ie Lucy is really grafting Simon

have u heard she s a crony?

not as you expect.. means a Kronenberg.

1664.. as is looks 16 from the back, older (64) when she turns round.. can be used positively. .eg an attractive girl who looks schoolage but is older (and therefore approach able for an 18 year old or younger playa..)

or derisory/admiringly for a different reason.. as in 'man she looked hot but waddya know she was a crony' or 'wow! hot crony! meaning 'looked approachable from behind but too old for me/still amazingly hot'.

learnt this from a 19 year old van man.

After reading this thread this morning, I was in Primark this afternoon and saw a tshirt with 'yolo drake' on it. I couldn't remember if that was good or bad

I've seen (on friend's teen's Facebook) they all seem to say 'yes then' to each other a lot. I can't work out if it's a challenge or an affirmation. Anyone know?

Best one I've heard is (from Belfast)

"I'll bang ye"

When I was a teenager to bang someone meant something completely different to what this child was referring to. Apparently it now means punch.

Someone asked about scottish slang, I can't think of any apart from the Doric 'slang' (it's not really slang it's more like a different language) but I think adults are worse for that than the teenagers!

These are all amazing. But, presumably will be useless in a short time, as new words appear and these become ancient and un-used.

Chirps is flirting.

Cotch is to chill out/hang out.

Bredding is cheating.

Nang...

In Barking, a gap is a vagina. Mind the Gap on a tube with school kids on doesnt end well...

Oh, and a chief is someone stupid.

Mash man is a man with a gun, and a mash is a gun. So 'yeah, Alllie says that guy was a mash man but the jakes called trident lol.' Jakes= police on foot, so guys running to the scene. Trident is armed police...

Skeen is to see basically. 'Yeah, I skeen ya.'

"Wan day man we go back to da Vinnie"

Third generation mixed raced child who had a grandmother from St Vincent in the Caribbean. Unique I think to High Wycombe.