Whether something is the cat’s meow or all that and a bag a chips, slang serves the purpose – splitting “those in the know” from “the others.” But how is your grasp on various slang throughout the years?
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#1. shizzle
in the language of rap and hip-hop this means “for sure.” Shizzle, as a euphemism for sh-t, dates back to the ’90s. One can also be “the shizzle,” which is the best or most popular thing.
For shizzle my nizzle.
#2. gnarley
Gnarly means “treacherous.” An acceptable synonym is “hairy.” Surf punks use gnarly to refer to any wave over two feet
Wow, man! That’s totally gnarly!
#3. 23 skidoo
23 skidoo is an American slang phrase generally referring to leaving quickly, being forced to leave quickly by someone else, or taking advantage of a propitious opportunity to leave.
It isn’t certain how ’23-skidoo’ (or skiddoo) originated. Whatever the source, the term was much in vogue in the USA during 1906.
The police threatened to imprison everyone in the crowd that did not 23 skidoo from the park
#4. peeps
Cassell’s Dictionary of Slang (2d ed.) defines “peeps” as a slang term originating in the 1980s on college campuses and in the black community. It’s derived from “people” and it means parents, friends, people in general,
She showed up with her peeps for support.
#5. goldbricker
Goldbricking in the modern sense of malingering developed around the time of World War II, in the U.S. Army. The term was extended to refer to anybody not pulling his weight—a loafer who gives the appearance of working without actually accomplishing much
Jim’s group had to work extra hours because Jim was such a goldbricker.
#6. shake a leg
The phrase is sometimes used to mean ‘get going’ or ‘hurry up’. It was explicitly defined that way in the New York Magazine in 1904. “Shake a leg … meaning to ‘hurry up’.”
Let’s shake a leg, you guys. We gotta be there in twenty minutes.
#7. lung dart
- 2000, Jack Croft, The Doctor’s Book of Home Remedies for Men (page 51)
“Smoking just makes things so much worse,” says Dr. McNally. See your family doctor if you need help; there are more ways than ever now to assist you in getting off the lung darts.
Humphrey Bogart spends much of the moving working on lung darts.
#8. cheugy
According to an April 2021 article in The New York Times written by Taylor Lorenz, the term cheugy was coined in 2013 by Gaby Rasson, a Beverly Hills High School student, who used it to describe “people who were slightly off trend”; an Urban Dictionary definition appeared in 2018.[1] Subsequently, it was mentioned in a TikTok video by Hallie Cain in March 2021,[3] inspiring explainers from various media outlets (including Lorenz’ own article).[1] The American Dialect Society voted cheugy its 2021 “informal word of the year“.[11]
She is so cheugy: she’s doing last week’s TikTok trend.
#9. bae
Bae is a slang term of endearment[1] primarily used among youth in communities. It came into widespread use around 2013 and 2014 through social media and hip-hop and R&B lyrics.
It’s bad when bae doesn’t reply to your texts.
#10. stan
One early person to use stan for an obsessed fan was the rapper Nas in a 2001 track where he raps: “You a fan, a phony, a fake, a pussy, a Stan.”
An Urban Dictionary entry describing stan for intense fandom was added in 2006, and one of the first tweets using stan as a verb for greatly liking someone came in 2008.
Everyone knows I stan for Taylor Swift!
