Teenage slang translation thread

[ThreeBeeOneGee]

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.

[carriedawayannie]

Slumped is also used instead of shanked

[AcrylicPlexiglass]

Blem = cigarette/tobacco
Blemboss = person smoking just to show off

I learned this when practicing smoking my electric cigarette. My son came in and caught me and pissed himself laughing. Then shouted to his brother "Fam, fam! Look at dis, Mummy's da blemboss! Buck me your lectric blem, Mum. pleeeese yolo yolo."

crow - weed
get blunted - get high
buck me - give me

as in "buck me sum crow so I can get blunted"

ballin- getting money

flex- to exaggerate

based- you have connections and money in the city where you live

teks- you have techniques (you're good)

a benz - an amount of weed worth 10 pounds

move to- prepare to beat up

move- attempt to seduce

link- meet up

spot- the place where you usually smoke weed

goin bombing/ bombing tracks - grafittiing on the railways

yard- house

free yard- no one is in the house

bax- a hench punch

repping- representing

( at how much my 14 year olds know about weed)

[bigTillyMint]

Pesky, where are you? Doesn't seem to be old skool here!

[bigTillyMint]

Love hench too. DD's bf is hench

[carriedawayannie]

AcrylicPlexiglass wins the thread!

Agree with Pesky, that earlier list was used when I was at school in the 90's.

Nothing like that now round here.

[bigTillyMint]

Where are you carrie?

How about lodged?

[carriedawayannie]

The beautiful town of Reading

[bigTillyMint]

that SE London is behind Reading in the teen street slang stakes!

[AvrilPoisson]

Can't believe no-one's mentioned FML yet! (Fuck my life- i.e. everything is terrible... well... I ran out of lipbalm or I can't get a lift to town, or my straighteners broke )

[IllegalYoniFarm]

This thread is hilarious!

[carriedawayannie]

I use FML when my car was written off the other day.

bigTilly - We're full of little gangstas. Its such a joy.

[PeskyRat]

I'm in North London, and without outing myself, not a million miles away from White Hart Lane !

That great list of Terrys really made me smile. Reminds me of how my DCs dads family talk, especially at family re-unions when the banter is flowing.

The teen slang around here now is a milion miles away from that but derived from it I guess?

[bigTillyMint]

So carrie, what slang do your gangsta's use then?

[PeskyRat]

Ah, how could I have forgotten this little gem.

Begfriend - arse licker .

[bigTillyMint]

Yes - just beg here - also used by DS about most of his year

[dementedma]

Wow, it seems that that thankfully hardly any of this crap has permeated Scotland yet! I asked dd2 about it and she said witheringly " yeah, some neds talk like that but no one in their right mind does!
I have to agree

[50shadesofvomit]

Round here the kids spell butters with a z so Butterz rather than Butters.

They also spell peng as paing (I remember asking if it was spelt peng as in penguin.)

I don't know if this one's been mentioned but my son says "The Boss" a lot. I remember another adult looking puzzled and me translating it as "the bee's knees" and my son looking puzzled. Maybe we need to start talking in the language of our youth and confusing our teens/pre-teens.

I'm laughing really hard now that I know that the language is based on Jamaican language as my son and most of his friends are white middle class and use a lot of the terms especially the ones of the first 2 or 3 pages.
I wonder if there are regional variations?

[TerrysAllGold]

Your location probably explains all, PeskyRat. I'm about 60 or 70 miles north of London. The slang some of the kids around here use is the same as the slang used when I was growing up in the city several years ago. Maybe it's a case of everything being slow to catch up here?

Although I'm white English it was part of my youth and I can still drop into it without a thought. I'm often caught telling the children "Come now!" or replying "Soon come" and not to vex me. It takes me back to another world, the home of my best childhood friend and the warmth of her late, much missed Jamaican parents. Happy days.

[PeskyRat]

I remember so well using the equivalent slang language in the '80's, trying to be all ghetto and street and I'm anything but!

I could switch it on and off though, and that's what I did, much like most of the kids do today I expect.

They only talk like that when they're 'out on road'

[50shadesofvomit]

Is it a sign of old age that I am noting how these words are spelt?

Ds1 has no clue if it's bare/bear etc

[OhHullitsOnlyMeYoni]

I'm just wondering what the local townies would think if I bought myself a DENCH top to push DD around in her buggy...hehehe Might be worth it to see their faces!
Maybe we could start a spoof 'How to be Iconically Anti-Mumsy' thread in S&B (I hate those mumsy or not threads!)

[PeskyRat]

50shades I wonder, because it's street 'talk', it never used to be written down at all, but now with Fb and twitter, the spelling takes some pondering!

About peng, it was peng-a-leng here for a long time. Blardy peng-a-leng, reminds me of boom-shang-a-lang .

[PeskyRat]

Terrys yes, that caribbean slang evokes memories and feelings of times past and is here to stay.

I doubt today's slang will last beyond a few years (tank da Lord!)

[AcrylicPlexiglass]

yat- girl
beat= sex

lol @ peng a leng. My boys used to say that all the time.

[TerrysAllGold]

Tank da Lord indeed, PeskyRat!