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Teenage slang translation thread

318 replies

ThreeBeeOneGee · 30/04/2013 21:44

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. Grin

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leedsgirl231 · 02/05/2014 15:26

I'll give you a list of words from an 18/yo whose friends actually talk like this
Peak - shit, unfair
Peng- hot/fit
safe- okay, good, yeah
bare- lots of
bone - have sex with
gash - girlfriend
long - boring, far, uses effort
Geezer - friend, example: "nah geezer not coming out" - mate
BORT - haha no
hype ting - good thing, on a hype, liking something
there's more, just can't think! Grin

honeybeeridiculous · 04/05/2014 19:59

DS,16, asked me if his treads were in his crib Hmm
Apparently translates to "mother, do you think my shoes are under my bed?" Grin

NinjaLeprechaun · 05/05/2014 11:05

Without reading the whole thread - my daughter and her friends claim that "YOLO" and "swag" both mean "I'm a complete douchebag" a charming term in and of itself so, you know, opinions vary. Grin

SnotandBothered · 06/05/2014 21:19

honeybee if I could 'like' your post, I would Grin

honeybeeridiculous · 07/05/2014 11:03

snot Grin

bigTillyMint · 08/05/2014 07:23

DS uses "creps" in an ironic/sarcastic way to DH about his shoesSmile

Bee161618 · 23/09/2014 09:41

My eldest son uses the word 'lul' anyone know what this is? He constantly says it about everythuing! I'm baffled!

I've also heard 'im going to bang this birdie' what could this mean?

myotherusernameisbetter · 23/09/2014 10:17

Bee does he mean LOL - as is Laugh at Loud - i.e. that's funny.

I think the latter means "I am going to have sex with that girl" but probably means anything that they are about to do succesfully. As in, when going to do a particularly good skate move or similar.

myotherusernameisbetter · 23/09/2014 10:20

I am prepared to be wrong though - we have succesfully managed to avoid too much slang (in front of me anyway) so far. :o

I have heard the occasional "that's beast!" and that's about that. Younger DS does say a sarcastic "lol" from time to time when someone me says something that they think is funny and he clearly doesn't agree.

Elllouise · 01/06/2015 23:26

Tank is a bit like beast so they would say "yeah he's a tank" which is like he's a legend

Xeber123 · 14/06/2015 12:30

Buff=attractive
Butters=ugly
Bait=Obvious
buffers=attractive and not attractive at the same time
Bare=a lot
Hench=muscular and attractive

rosieglows · 29/04/2016 10:40

Hi, I am wondering about different experiences of correcting this in teenage boys and whether this is a terrible idea. I have a lovely nearly 13 year old boy at a local extremely caring and racially mixed school. He has started to do the Jamaican patois thing , not so much at home but it's creeping in. There can be an aggressive edge to it and it comes out when he's cross. We have standard rp speak at home. I don't mind him talking like this with friends, I know we all need different language, but just can't quite near the aggressiveness that can come out with it at home. I have commented on it, and wonder about how annoying I should be about it (don't want to pick too many fights when he's struggling to find himself in a new school and new world)...., any advice welcome !

Ticktacktock · 29/04/2016 14:31

I hate the teenage slang dd comes out with. I remember my teenage slang still. Stupid pointless and immature.

However, it has to be done. I try to just ignore it, she'll get over it. I dare say your ds will too.

cheval · 10/05/2016 17:03

Remember years ago calling someone batty (as in a bit eccentric). Kids were perplexed. According to their Jafaikan vocabulary, it meant gay.
Another time, they were hurling insults at each other while I was on the phone, calling each other gay. Person I was talking to is actually gay. I was furious with them. But apparently gay seems to have changed meaning (yet again) to infer feebleness. Or something like that. Can't keep up.

GeorgeTheThird · 11/05/2016 15:50

Hmmm. I'm really not liking gash meaning girlfriend.

chocolateworshipper · 12/05/2016 20:12

fleek / on peak = perfect
G = mate
bare = very
rip = rest in peace (but rip is said as if it is a word rather than an acronym)
you're jokes = you are funny

chocolateworshipper · 12/05/2016 20:13

oh and "boyed" = ignored

dementedma · 12/05/2016 20:18

Tank is apparently the brother of KSI, which is itself a clantag for a particular tuber. So there!
According to Ds.
He also says "How do you like them apples?" which makes me laugh

dementedma · 12/05/2016 20:19

Ooh, breaking news! Apparently only girls says "fleek" here in Scotland

tiredbuthappyworkingmum · 12/05/2016 21:02

Beef = argument/fight as in 'beefy party last night' or 'lots of beef at school today.'
I quite like using the abbreviated ones - obvs, hilarious, gorge and cray-cray. At 50 maybe I shouldn't... But at 50 I don't really care what people think.. :)

chocolateworshipper · 12/05/2016 21:14

I forgot "squad" = group of friends. But never, ever "a squad" or "the squad" or "my squad" - only "squad"

Diamogs · 12/05/2016 22:22

None mentioned goals yet? Usually with a hash tag prefix friendship goals, relationship goals, squad goals etc.

And lots of AF (as fuck) suffixes. Mad AF, crazy AF

MarlseeMarls · 07/06/2016 11:22

Chirping- meaning chatting up or flirting with

heron98 · 07/06/2016 15:15

Ha, we used to say "butters" too back in the 90s. I had totally forgotten about that.

Sotaku · 10/06/2016 02:18

I've only skimmed this thread but it always makes me smile when DC start with some slang that's in at the time since so much of it is based on Jamaican patois and my parents are Jamaican and I lived there for a few years as a child. So, DC are often using slang I've known my whole life, e.g. creps, batty (not the same as the derogatory battyman as someone thought unthread), man dem, from time, wah gwaan, bredrin, etc. Plus, they often have throw backs to slang everyone used in my teens. DC are now more surprised when I don't already know their slang, for instance DD2 recently said her friend was trying to ship some other friends. Apparently, it means trying to get someone into a relationship.

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