That was a waste of two minutes.
This is so retarded. Born in 1963 and I have nothing in common with folks born in the late 40s and 50s...
My brother still says “crusing for a brusing”. I will NEVER forget my younger 1st cousin visiting me at college and being unable to say much besides, “Wow!” “Groovy!” “That’s a bummer!” Moved to Massachusetts and took forever to acclimate to “That’s wicked!” from the kids who are now old enough to be grandparents.
23 skibidi doo!
They forgot “gnarly”.
A phrase my father used.
My own was a mix of some Baby Boom and some Gen X, which hits my age perfectly.
There was plenty if slang even inthe 20s. Read Wodehouse. TV and movies are a poor place to judge contemporary slang. Dick van Dyke purposely avoided it so that the show would survive in reruns. Reiner was right about that.
Gag me with a spoon
Groovy. I dig it!
I was just going to add some moo juice.
Why does the Silent Generation encompass 18 years, the Baby Boomers 19 years, and all subsequent generations are 16 years.
I suggest reading popular fiction actually written in that era.
Yes. Slang was popular.
When my youngest was in maybe 3rd or 4th grade, I wanted to see if his brother’s old hand-me-down jacket would fit him. He wanted to be a pizza delivery guy for Halloween, and the jacket made perfect sense. So when he went to try it on, he kept saying, “Mom, this jacket is tight!”
I looked at him and said, “Are you sure? It looks like it fits great!”
We went around and around. Even though it was “tight” he wanted to wear it. Puzzled, I said “fine!” We weren’t in a position to spend much money. I figured he could throw a baseball cap on his head and carry an empty pizza box around. If the jacket was too small, it wouldn’t matter for one night.
On Trick or Treat night, I walked with him and his slightly older sister, who was a Rubik’s cube for her costume. It was a box with construction paper for the squares, and the straps from an old backpack. We passed by one kid, who saw her costume and said, “Man, you’re a Rubik’s cube? That’s TIGHT!”
“Tight” suddenly made sense. I learned that night I had to pay closer attention to the slang of the next generation.
Hoser.
A lot of slang terms were regional. Growing up in the ‘Burgh area, our universal term of contempt for someone was “jaggoff”. It was said with a particular upper lip sneer that I can’t describe.
mark
My gen-z child has some interesting slang…
“Lit” or “bet” = cool
“Fire” = awesome
“Sus” = suspicious
“cringe” = gross
Just to name a few
Odds bodkins!
This whole thread is so gay.
I always hated,”no dice”.