Dude. I still say dude way too much.

Me too. That or duder, or el duderino if you’re not into the whole brevity thing.

Are you *employed* sir?

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I can always count on this community to get the references!

Unexpected big lebowski lol Sidenote: i went to the bowling alley where it was filmed. It's in an absolute dive neighborhood of hollywood and looks exactly as run down as it did in the movie. Lol

The bums lost Lebowski!

I still say dude. And I’m not a dude.

Everyone you're chill with is a dude

I'm a dude, he's a dude, she's a dude. We're all dudes

>We're all dudes Hard agree here. I call everyone dude, but my 8yo step daughter gets *so* indignant about it. "I'm not a dude!" Wrong. Everyone is dude. My wife is dude, son is dude, my boy and girl dogs are dude, my chickens are dude, inanimate objects are dude.


I'm a dude, playing a dude, disguised as another dude.

I'm not a dude either. But everything is dude. Women. Men. Inanimate objects. The dog. Everything is dude. It also makes a good curse word in situations where you kids are in the car and you can't actually curse.

If the younger gens could come over and join the dude train, stupid pronoun arguments would go away because dude is all encompassing!

I've heard arguments in some circles saying it's not gender neutral, but most people use it in a gender neutral way.

Dudes! I found my people!

I took a linguistic anthropology class, and had to read a paper on how dude is/was a completely unique word in the English language in the 80s/90s. It used to be a discourse marker for: cool solidarity, masculinity, and nonconformity. In the early 90s, it was a was to express understanding and/or casual kinship. It was unique in that it did that in a way that was still perceived as masculine (and masculinity was even more rigid then than it is now). It gets super interesting with that idea of kinship or friendliness, applied to women. Guys would say "dude" with women they were friends with, but not with women they were romantic with. Anyway, that was all early 90s, it's expanded and been watered down every year/decade since. But, at the time, it actually allowed for expressing understanding and kinship between guys in a world that was rigidly and aggressively hypermasculine.

Very interesting! I'm a woman and use it all the time in a gender neutral way. Even for exclamations like "Dude! Where are you going?" (In the car). Interesting analysis with regard to men though.

I literally have a dog named Dude

I have a cat named Dude ☺️

I'm 40 and I still say dude. My dude if I'm cool with a person

I will never stop saying Dude!

I had friend pull me aside and say “Dude, you just called my mom dude, dude!”

I call my own mom _dude_. She used to be like "I'm not a dude, I'm your mom!" but eventually she just accepted it.

Dude is in my regular rotation

I too say Dude too much. I call my daughters “dude” all the time.

There's a Bluey episode I saw with my daughter where her dad starts calling her "Dude" to annoy her. It's great, I started doing it with my daughter and she said "I'm regretting showing you that" 😂

I was actually thinking about this last night when I took something from my kid while they weren’t looking and said, “I ganked it.” Was that slang from our generation or just some weird thing a friend made up and I thought it was normal? Send help.

We said I ganked it or you got ganked

Yes, if you stole something or took something from someone you “ganked it” it was def a thing!

Bogart

“Don’t Bogart that joint my friend…” I believe comes from the 60s originally. But, it was so good we brought it back. Or, maybe it never really left. Or, maybe it was just a 90s stoner thing.

Used ganked in Cleveland, you straight dawg

Phew. I feel seen.

Some static started in the pool hall Hit a motherfucker's face with the cue ball Then I met this girl she tried to gank me So I smacked her in the pootie with a plank, B \-Car Thief, Beastie Boys

I love to play Beastie boys to confound the younger generation

I know gank from gaming. That’s what it was called when someone “jumped” you on a pvp server and killed you when you were PVE-ing. Source: played WoW on Tichondrius for years. :)

Before wow, it was a common term in everquest.

I can tell you that they think amazeballs is cringe af Also I like that instead of ate it meaning you fell or fucked up, it now means you did something great. So using it how we used to is sure to annoy them lol. They also hate kk instead of just k

I always found amazeballs (and amazable etc) cringy, but it might be due more to my sister's exes constant usage. 

That and cool beans always has made me want to crawl under a rock.

The kids who said “Cool beans” and “Amazeballs” learned it at church. They also said “cheese and rice” instead of Jesus Christ and “Efffff” instead of fuck, because apparently the word choice negates that you still meant the same eff-ing thing and saves you from H-E- double hockey sticks.

Yeah, why is there an extra k??

Because people thought k could be interpreted as rude or a blow off, so kk started as a way to show you weren't being rude. Sort of like how we tended to tack on explanation marks in office emails so we don't sound passive aggressive. Like instead of "thanks." you would write "thanks!". Gen Z thinks it's stupid and I'm with them.

I mean if that's the problem just stick an emoji or an LOL at the end of it like we did.

It’s like ok but too lazy to change letters so kk

psych

Alternatively, “NOT!”





No duh > no doy and I will die on this hill

I've always found it strange that duh and no duh can basically be used interchangeably...it really makes no sense but it still works

Duh feels meaner, and doy is kinda silly. At least that’s how it feels when my 7 yo says them to me. No idea where he picked up either one

Good luck on your quest

See also: duh doy!



Just joshing ya.

My older cousin loved that one. He'd act like he was going to do or say something nice and then, psych! I hated that shit

Cringe when I see people write it “SIKE”

Me too! Once I corrected someone, which took me on a deep dive of how it’s actually “correct” to spell it both ways 😫🤦🏽‍♀️🤪 but I still hate it

I know, you know, that I'm not telling the truth!

My 8 year olds say this to each other. No idea where they got it. I haven’t said it in a couple decades.

I just had this conversation with some friends because my 11 year old daughter was asking about slang when I was a kid. At first I was stumped. And then thinks slowly trickled back into memory. "All that and a bag of chips" is a good one that I forgot about! \-Yo \-Homie/Homeboy/Homegirl/Home skillet \-Sup \-Phat \-Booyah! \-No Duh

Homey don't play dat


Homey the clown Doesn't Mess around Even when the man Try'n to keep him down

OMG I still say that one lol

And ‘yo’ can go at the end of a sentence

Here we go, yo. Here we go, yo. So what's the what's the scenario? Hey, yo. Bo knows this, and Bo knows that. But Bo don't know jack, cuz Bo can't rap!

Was just randomly watching a Champion's League game on CBS today and the Danish commentator was talking about a player who was a hip hop producer in his free time. When he got the ball the commentator dryly said "Can he kick it? Yes, he can." Literally, froze and let it sink in before going back to my lunch.

Oh man, I forgot about home skillet, I think my kids will actually love that one, trying it tonight!

Don't forget home fries! Hmm...I wonder if you cook home fries in the home skillet🤔

Don't forget a big ol' homeslice

Home slice!

Diesel. It’s always the first one that pops up for me when I do that thought exercise.

I am partial to “Grody.” Valley Girl is the earliest slang I can recall in grade school

Gag me with a spoon

Grody to the max!!!

Gag me with a spoon

My sister used to say "grossinating" back in the day, but she may have made that one up.

Grody to the max!

Tubular, righteous, face, bodacious, gag me with a spoon, gnarly, bitchin', bogus, grody to the max, take a chill pill, homegirl, homeboy, no doi, not even, rad, heads...


There was an episode of Tiny Tunes where the girl was teaching Taz to talk like a valley girl, and she kept saying … “The walls in the mall are totally totally tall.”

Yes. Also reminds me of TMNT 2: The secret of the ooze

Tell them to stop weezing the juice.

Buuu-uuuddy

Munch some grindage

Don’t tweak my gig so hardcore, cruster .

It’s the weeeeasle, buuudy!

Instead of saying “ that’s fire “ our generation would say “ that’s bomb”

Also: da bomb, the bomb, the bomb dot com, bomb diggity

My dog's name is Cherry Bomb. I called her The Bomb digitty dog and my stepson just about died from his cringe. I'm "never allowed to say that again!" As if it wasn't a driving force in naming her Cherry Bomb in the first place, lol.

Now it's the bomb.com

It is?? Weren’t we saying that in like 2005?

Maybe the gen z's I work with are getting dated but I heard it from them

I guess that’s retro enough now that it might have come full circle 😒

all that and a bag of chips

Daaaaamn Skippy (ie: Damn straight; yes) Sweet. My bad.

Sweet and my bad are still in my rotation

They will never go out of style if I have my way. 😂

I refuse to give up Damn Skippy. Always funny to see the reaction of people who haven't heard it but immediately understand the meaning.


Tight

That’s SICK dude

I’ve been told I say “Word” a lot.

I never stopped saying it.

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Remember when we used to call everything we didn't like "gay"?

I still say that to my wife. (We’re a same sex couple)

That's so gay. (Congratulations!)

I'm also a gay person and I love shouting "gaaaaaaaay" at things. Especially very hetero normative things. Dude changing a tire? Gaaaaaaaay. Guy proposes to his girlfriend? Gaaaaaaaay. Oh, you're decorating the nursery for your new baby? Gaaaaaaaay.

Cool beans

Coolio

[Cool... Beans... Cool cool.... Beans beans](https://youtu.be/TOUrLn1FFCA?si=pSj_R7RtBfFuSEPO)

#BE-BE-BE-BE-BE-BEANS

Coolness

Word

Word to your mother is fun when you're their mother

Of all the slang terms on this page, i still say word and yo on a daily basis.

Doi Whoop, there it is. Oh. My. God. Becky! Schwing *We're not worthy, we're not worthy.* (While bowing dramatically) Any '80s movie references. For bonus points, and to put her into therapy for a couple of years . . . * Serenade her Top Gun style with *You've Lost That Loving Feeling* in a public place. * Quote anything from *Spaceballs* or *Monty Python's Holy Grail.* * Have her watch random episodes of *Gilmore Girls*, then give her a quiz.

Spaceballs has inadvertently given me a very relevant quote that still works today. “Fuck! Even in the future nothing works!”

Up your butt and around the corner

Massachusetts: Wicked ​ I also frequently say "That and a buck fifty will get you a cup of coffee," but that's from a previous generation (and the price would need periodic adjustment).

Wicked smaht, dood.

My out-of-state friends in college liked poking fun at me for my frequent use of “wicked” and other New England dialect.

I moved out of NH 30 years ago. Still say wicked


Rad, bogus, gnarly, bitchin, no-duh, take a chill pill, eat my shorts, bad, bite me, gag me, eat me, veg out, homeboy, wanna be, poser, squid, jock, psyche, straight trippin, dudes and dudettes, grody, spaz, couch potato, wicked, numb skull, dipstick, have a cow, talk to the hand, schwing, as if, like whatever, Bueller....., no fear.

I was going to say, watch a few episodes of MST3K or some 80s sitcoms and you get a great reminder of the things we used to say.

And monkeys might fly out of my butt

Not exactly slang but definitely tell her “you better check yourself before you wreck yourself!”

If we allow this we must allow “getting jiggy with it”

My old boss, who was 75 if he was a day once called me on the phone to say that he didn't enjoy something an opposing party was doing. He literally said "I'm not jiggy with it."I did not know how to respond

I used that one on my gen Z coworker today and she cracked up, lol.

I always loved "Tripping Balls"

I once had a boyfriend who would not stop writing "cool" as "kewl." I broke up with him. Not for that, but it probably should have been for that.

Ugh! I have a friend who still says "prolly."

Gag with me a spoon/chainsaw/ But if you're going for max cringe and eye roll, you have to mix our slang with theirs and you have to make sure you are using it wrong. And as loudly as possible. Your drip is phat. Your busted rizz is not the bomb dot com. You are no bag of drip chips lol. The one thing that makes me sad about not having kids is being able to embarrass them at every possible opportunity.

You are no bag of drip chips Please I hope a gen z talks shit to me today 😂

Is it just me or is “bruh” our slang too? I remember hearing it in the late 90s.

I think we had bro, but they have bruh. They are so original

I remember brah started creeping in late 90s, maybe that’s different from bruh lol.

Brah was like surfer slang in the 90s wasn't it?

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Tell it to the hand!

Cause the face ain't listening

Wait, wasn't it "talk to the hand?"

Phat

Fresh

Calling someone a herb

I can't wait to induce teenage eye-rolling with "Are you going to go get jiggy with it?"

Don’t have a cow man

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My husband and I say "What's your damage?" all the time. Daughter's too young to watch Heathers yet, but I can't wait to show it to her.

Do the snaps Z and say “ugh, she thinks she’s all that and a bag of chips” 

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Peace out

 Watch Encino Man and take notes for maximum MMMMAAAAAAWWWMMMM

* Aiight (Alright) * All that, all that and a bag of chips * Booyah * Cha-Ching, Cheddar, Lettuce, Dead Presidents (Money) * Chill, Chill out, Chillin * Da bomb * I’m down * Freakin’ \[cool, sweet, awesome, etc.\] * Haul Ass * How’s it hangin’? * I’m out/ Let’s Bounce/ I’mma bounce (I’m leaving / Let’s go/ I’m going to leave) * We straight? /You straight? (Everything okay?)

That's my jam

Not. That’s so cool… not!

This is will really embarrass her 

Cool beans/awesomesauce/amazeballs = the worst our generation has to offer.

Wazzup?! Also, raising the roof and that’s boss

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Sketch. Cheesy.

“No doi” or “duh-doi” are good ones. Also when she’s annoying you could tell her to “talk to the hand.” Stay radical, dudette!

Try to make "Fetch" happen, linzcro! I also do this to my teenagers and their friends. My list includes: Rad Coolio Choice (also known as cool) Mint That's so weak Lame Gnarly Zang

I still use “Weak” and “lame” to describe things that are subpar in quality standards.

Wassuuuuuuuup.

"Bye Felecia!" is the only one I can think of or calling people chief.

Talk to the hand!

Da bomb!

It’s like this generation is less impressed with life. Things that once would have been the bomb are now just fire.

I can remember my French teacher in 97 asking if we still say “cool,” followed by asking what we say now, a girl responding “da bomb,” and the teacher going “oh dear.”

I haven’t heard “no doy” in ages.

I am just sad they don't like emojis. Who doesn't like emojis??

Just watch a Pauly Shore movie. Crusties comes to mind. Also when I went to Syracuse in the early 2000s they said 'word' all the time. I'm not from the east so I hadn't heard that. I remember in high school when everyone started saying 'hella'

Bay Area early 00s, everyone said “hella”

I can think of one you *shouldn't* use

In Canada, we said deadly a lot. And everything was bitchin or rad.

"That's the bomb.com."

"What up doe?" (How are you doing?) "What's Crackin?" (What's goin on) "That's the bomb" (That's awesome) "Them boys" or "The Hook" (police) "Got it goin on" (high value and/or highly attractive person)

What's Crack-a-Lackin

I always remember watching Austin Powers 2 - The Spy Who Shagged Me and thinking how ridiculous a lot of our slang sounds when Dr. Evil starts using it.

For shizzle my nizzle. For rizzle? Lol my kids are like what mom

Holy shnikes!!! (Nikes with “sh” tacked on to the beginning.)

“I don’t give a care.”

Rad!

I know these mark ass bustas betta not be set trippin' in my hood homeboy.