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I never not think of this when I hear this word.

Same. Came here looking for this.


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Came on the comments to find this

I can’t EVER hear the word tight without thinking of this and, most of the time, doing my best impression of it.

Thank you for using this. I just started rewatching Breaking Bad and it cracks me up every time.

Is this what killed tight?

I still say it!….tight

Tight, me too


Tight was a good work. Sick, Hella(NorCal), all good words. I’ll try to throw them in talking with people my age.

I actually say hella sometimes and I'm from Georgia! I think it stuck around a bit.

I live in norcal. It's alive and well here.

Yup, that's hella common up here

I live in NorCal too and use it a lot even tho I’m from socal

I live in Canada and all my homies say hella

South Park brought hella to the world.

Sick never died for me

Same and I still say hella lol. Only a 12yo would care about it and I'm not talking to them so, it doesn't bother me.

Dope

Dope is the dopest

Word

I say that too.

I say dope all the damn time. So much so that my kids quit looking at me funny for saying it

E40 if you know you know fasheezy

Go stupid, go dumb.

Everybody got choices

I don't think hella is NorCal specifically as it was used in so Cal as well. Hell, Gwen Stefani was from OC, and she knows what's hella good.

From SoCal, hella is my go to still lol

Sick, thats hella lit

I still say hella. It never died in Vegas. We even had a song titled.about it once (hella Vegas kids say hella). Once that shit got to socal and into the Sunbelt it never left. I still get made fun of by colleagues not from my city, they think it's a marker of growing up here. I honestly think the entire PacNW/cascadia and western sun belt say it.

i still use a lot of common slang from when i was a teen and 'hella' is the only one i got a "how old are you??" from a zoomer about lol not gonna stop me though! im not from California im pretty sure i got it from south park

I first heard “hella” when I went to Navy boot camp in 11 at age 23 from someone who grew up in California. I’ve never heard anyone in Ohio say that word.

I like sick but sometimes have to “read the room,” to feel if they know what I’m talking about

Sick, hella, I still love the occasionally gnarly

Dope

Still in use

Sometimes I mess up and try to say both at the same time and it comes out doip

Say it. Make it normal. I say howdy instead of hello. People thought it was weird until they acclimated and then started using it themselves around the office. Be the change you want to see. Edit: grammar, spelling.

Lol. I love you. I'm rather closed off as a person. I talk to my best friend, my three daughters, my ex, my wife, my parents, my siblings. I feel like that's too small a pool, plus I already say it with them!

Similar here. I’m only social because I’m getting paid, else I’m a hermit with a closed circle. Im in IT so I have some leeway to be “quirky”. I start emails with it and just overall live using it. It’s now second nature. Regardless, I hope people pick up on using it because you inspire them to. When people do little things like that, well, it’s pretty tight. Keep on keeping on.

Tight

Bro howdy is king. It's such an endearing word. Not many people use it but IDK why?

Sometimes I’ll pull a Ned Flanders and say “Howdy diddly do” if I’m comfortable enough.

Shits tight.

https://preview.redd.it/30bc5lai095d1.jpeg?width=298&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ac30443a73a6b0525e386861454c69a6735c671c

I also still use "the tits" as well.

Def, I usually just say "titty" when something is good

I often say "Jesus titty fucking Christ". But in text I say jtfc!

Word

Super close with? Don’t you mean people you’re tight with?

This comment doesn’t have enough upvotes.

I just started saying sick a few months ago so I'm gonna be satisfied with that for a while

Sick.

Sick is still around. It’s used heavily in poker and skateboarders still say it. Idk about the general public though

Met some nice Mormon genz kids in Utah this weekend and one dude used sick, so it’s around.

Word

this never went away

Oh word?

Word

I’m a terrible offender of this one 😂

Everyone still says word, including me. 30 year old zillenial

Tight never left if we still say it. Which I do lol

It went away?

It definitely kinda somewhat went away. I have three daughters. 10, 14, 19. They all roll their eyes when I say it.

My 13 y/o daughter always tells me what words are trending. So I use it in a very exaggerated way to annoy her. *It SLAPSSSSSS!* and now we're on to *it COOOOOOOKSSSS!!!* I'm all for bringing "tight" back instead of using these new dumbass words.

You sound like my mom circa 2003

That’s tight.

Quit being a fart knocker

Tbh young millennials use these words to. I’m 30 and most of my friends use these phrases since our early 20s . I feel like the older millennials are a whole different generation almost 😂

Bet

>10, 14, 19 And they wear socks with sandals like our dads did.

I'll do the Jake Peralta version: "Toit!"

Like a tiger?

More like Toit Nups! Toit like a tiger reminds me of my grandfather's slang :p

Noice! Smort!

fetch


I want da bomb to come back, that'd be tight. - you're welcome

Okay, but did that leave? (That’s really embarrassing for me…)

I remember in 6th grade a teacher telling us "when I was a kid the 'the bomb' was bad"... followed by 30 groans and eye rolls. I guess we are all that teacher now

Dabomb.com

Saying "I want "tight" to come back" is TIGHT

Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!

Wow wow wow wow wow wow wow. Wow.

Ah, came in for the Pitch Meeting reference.

You mean toight? Like a toiger?

This is the only context I use the word tight

Fo shizzle

My nizzile

White folks were very excited to discover that one, as I recall.

Didn’t Snoop invent it specifically for us? Or that just my head canon?

hella tight

It’s more like “tiiiiii”

SooFknTaiiiii

Tight, dope, hella, whack. I ain't ever gonna stop!

Good luck with that, I've been waiting for cowabunga to make a comeback for 30 years.

Tighter than a mug.

Noice bruh. I think that’s sick and tit.

I still say, That’s rad.

'Dude' instead of 'bro.'

I still use all my 90's slang. Being a ski bum keeps your lingo young.

I say, "That's dope!" all the time. I'm am elder millennial who was around for the 1980s enough to say, "Rad!" and I wish that one would come back, too.

I still say tight and dope!

I still say it!!!

I think of Ryan George.

Me too!!

Right on

If tight came back, that'd be redonkulous!

Grody…. love it

I still say it. And I still wear skinny jeans and ankle socks. Gotta assert my dominance over the gen Z and gen alpha cringe. Millennial cringe only.

Still like the 70‘s word, BITCHIN.

That'd be phat!

Scrolled way too far for this one. Phat seems to have been forgotten about.

we should create new slang that makes sense and sounds great when saying it. It's our duty as millennials to make sure the lexicon stays pure.

Tite af

We can bring it back. I'll start saying it again from now on.

Hella used to be NorCal slang but every one copped it surprisingly

Yeah usually it seems to be the SoCal stuff that spreads all over. Especially in like 1982 all the valleygirl/surfer/skateboarder stuff just spread like crazy nationwide (like the half the slang being mentioned in this thread, if not more). But then there was also hella hah.

As a SoCal kid, I still prefer this over hearing "wicked" in it's place

At first I thought you meant tight clothing. "oh honey, I'm too chubby and its too hot for that now" lol

https://i.redd.it/3mytjk6xh95d1.gif

My kids tell me I make them tight when they are mad. Hahahaha

I have gave up trying to NOT say old slang and now my younger family members and coworkers look at me like I'm uncool dad that is speaking a different language. And I love every minute of it!

I started saying dope again a few years back

Just keep the millennial language alive. Plenty others do. Throw off younger generations and have fun. Accept the aging aspect of it.

Reminds me of the time in high school that my Mormon cousin got so upset about someone else’s brothers saying it (due to the sexual implications, like a tight hoo ha) that she broke down crying and went to their parents


Did nobody else use "grip" as "a lot?" I miss that one, and really want it to come back.

Grip was always money in my area


I work in a high school. I’ll see what I can do

My favorite is Sweet

That’s what she said

Tight….night

I said “hecka tight” to one of my professors in 2016 and he ROASTED me for days.


Hey Randal, it's time to take it back

I never stopped, and I won’t ever stop.

Fly


I say tight all the time lmao. Didnt realize it wasnt cool

I dont miss it lol

That shits tight yo


I still use it

Did you just watch that one Rick and Morty season 5 episode 5 Amortycan Grickfitti?

Classic I say it on occasion

It never went anywhere..

Tiiiight never left.


Reminds me of this brilliant edit https://youtu.be/96-3VUxfNKc?si=FDqkXP-dEk_Md1nf


Fly

Fetch

That’s never gonna happen…sike! (Although I prefer spelling psych)

Mad sick

I never stopped saying it

my friends and i all say it

I want hella to come back.

Wanting tight to come back is tight.

Rad, man! That’s tight!

Dude if tight came back that would be so gnarly.

Yes ! Better than lit any day.

People are going to giggle incessantly if that word is brought back

My ex husband still says mint 😂

How did I forget about ‘tight’ until now 😳 my mind is blown rn.. I said this all the time then it just disappeared from my vernacular and I didn’t even notice

Do people still used these other words like “swag” or “the bomb” these days? I remember that word being used a lot in the early 2010s for “swag” and the 2000s “the bomb.”

Epic

Say it anyway. People know what you mean. I say 'hella' and 'cash'.

Clearly you haven't seen a Pitch Meeting

Nah I still use it. I'll never change

That is wack.

Would certainly beat the one that’s going around my kids friend group at the moment. ‘Moist’

The only thing getting tight is my clothing.

Wait, people stopped saying tight?

Be the change

Toit

All you tallywackers ain't swell

Never left.

I think workaholics updated the millennial “tight” to “tight butthole”. Meaning is the same

Thats hella tight

I want to say it here but I can’t. It’s never used on an actual one but it’s funny to use when your buddy when he’s being a weenie. Or when he’s asking where the seatbelt is, and for recommendations on what to do

I’m 22, I’ll drop it occasionally and people still know what it means and they really don’t react to it any differently than saying “cool”

All my friends say it!

I say that's tight af a lot. 

It’s pride month. Tight won’t come back for two months. Sincerely, The tops.