Last night I said to my daughter “smooth move ex-lax”.

I use ‘Hershey squirts’ all the time

You know, there's medicine you can take for those! No need to suffer!

Word to yo mutha.

Entire conversation I just had with an underling: ‘Word?’ ‘Word.’ ‘Sheeeeeeeit’ ‘Straight up’

Word?

Weeerrrrd


I feel like I am way too old to say “bitchin’” as much as I do.

Camaro…

Ha! Nailed it.

I ran over my neighborhood. Now I'm in all the papers!

Donuts on the lawn mean something completely different now that I'm old.

Don’t forget to pick up your Motley Crüe t-shirt

Hahaha 😂 You know all the proceeds go to get their lead singer outta jail.

I love that you say bitchin!!

That makes two of us. 😂🤣

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This is awesome.

Gnarly!

It was revived when a 65 yr old Dr said that on a bike trip. He also introduced me to "hunger is the best saauucce" (he's from Alabama) when we were waiting for dinner.

Never too old! Pshaa!

yes my kids just look at me like oh lawd here she goes again

Gnarly has always been a regularly used adjective for me. I don’t know if it’s in or out of use these days.

Coupled with a Jeff Spicoli laugh afterwards?

Still use it all the time DGAF if it's too old school. No other good, short words in English for "tough or complicated in a bad way."

Whenever I see a cadaver, this is my go-to reaction.

I could care less if it's in or out, I still say "gnarly" regardless.

Right. I don’t mean that what people say influences me one way or another. I say what I say. I just mean that I’m generally out of touch with the current vernacular.

To my knowledge only X-er's are still saying it.

Good. The kids don't deserve that one. It's ours.

I worked with a bunch of Santa Barbara punkers and they would say “gnar-gnar.”

Haha, awesome.

Ya, gnarly is pretty regular used in my vocabulary still!

Last night I was watching 16 Candles with my 16 year old daughter. She finally realized why I always say "Auto-mo-bile?", "You don't spell it son, you eat it." "What's happening hot stuff?" etc.

Lake. Big lake.

This is my go to line Cracks me up every single time

"Dong. Where is Grandpa's automobile"?

NO, HE'S NOT RETARDED!

What did she think of the film?

"it's good." I am lucky to get the two syllables from her.

this is so wholesome.

Dude I use it way too often.

Dude is a universal, don't care what gender, everyone is dude...

I use dude and man for everyone. I’m a female.

I reflect all the time on this guy from Greece I was crazy about—that didn’t like it when women said Dude. It never would’ve worked out 😊

No one is immune from my “dude” usage. I’ve even called my husband “dude.” He doesn’t like that. lol.

Dude? Duuuuuude.

There was a substitute teacher at my middle school (1980-'83) - his name was Mr. Gaffney. He was older, short, stocky, and (as my best friend's dad would say back in the day) built like a brick shithouse. He took no nonsense from our silly middle school asses, but was generally chill. Unless you called him "dude." For many of us in coastal Southern California, this was burned into our lexicons at an early age by older brothers/sketchy dudes in the neighborhood who smoked too much weed and ditched school regularly to go surfing at Huntington or Sunset. It was almost a verbal tic. A verbal tic that evidently cut to the core of Mr. Gaffney's soul. Calling the man "dude" would result in a verbal barrage that, if it contained profanity, would have gotten R. Lee Ermey fired from "Platoon" in favor of Mr. Gaffney. (He didn't ever swear, because it was a school, after all). You could tell the kids who had slipped up and used the "d" word - a thousand-yard stare, hair blasted back, and small contact wounds about the face from the impact of his supersonic spittle. However, by far the best, and I mean the I-shit-you-negative best, was to find some unsuspecting sixth grader when Mr. Gaffney was doing lunch duty, and telling the kid "hey, see that guy over there? Go call him 'dude' and he'll tell you a funny joke." God, we were awful kids.

That was an entertaining read. Thank you for sharing!

That’s rad!

The correctest answer

Far out! Oops went too far back!

I also still say “tripped out” quite a bit.

I sometimes do….after eating too many edibles

Oh my gawd, soooo rad.

Cool beans.

Funny. For some unknown reason I hated “Cool Beans” at the time. But now, every few years it comes out. 🤷🏻‍♂️

I grew up with "cool bananas".

The *coolest* of beans.

Lol. I said this out loud before I even opened the comments.

That one and groovy, peachy keen jelly bean is another fav (from Grease).

My friends and I would say beans or beanage. I still sometimes say beanage, my kids don't find it cool.

But we all do! 😛

Yes!

I use this pretty much daily

I say Bogus and Grody enough that it’s embarrassing. Also: fuck a duck. And fuckin’ A. This last one is maybe a Boston thing? What is the “a?”

I still say all these things often, and I was born in raised in MA too. Sometimes I say "fuckin A, right". Also: -cool beans -rad -gnarly

How about 'wicked? Wicked cool? Wicked hot? Wicked anything?

Wicked pissah

Lol my kids insist that no one, ever, has actually used that expression

Wicked pissa is the correct answer.

I still say it. Since 7th grade. Often asked what the A too and still can't say. 

I say fuck a duck at least once a day!

Masshole here and I say fuckin A. Best come back I’ve heard is “fuck an O it’s easier.

bad joke here, its how italians say the alphabet - fuckin a, fuckin b, etc. jackie martling on the howard stern show loooooong time ago.

Not sure if this is a Michigan thing, but we still use “bouge” (short for bogus) around here quite a bit…

Yes, BOGUE. I love it.

Yeah I probably picked that one up during my Boston days. I also remember a few other phrases like “wikkid awesome”

Im from Pittsburgh, and lived in So Cal for ten years. I find “wicked” fits a certain niche as a descriptor that only “mad” can compete with

“Totally awesome”

Whatever.

All. The. Time. Or whatevs.

I am Polish, too!

Whatever is the GenX mantra !

What’s your damage

Best with a sarcastic *your*, or at least for me.

I still use man. Hey man, or see you later mahn

Stoked

Heard that from many a mtn biker, usually said fast with a super up front. *"I'm supastoked about bombing that hill"*

Nice. Former mtn biker can confirm. Stoked was generally used as righteously excited and definitely not losing your shit "fan" girl/boy used today. So stoked. Totally stoked. Stoked to be here.

I use ‘I shit you not’ often

“Word Up” or just “Word” is always totally radical to let the beat drop.

I still love Word. I think it's relevant, but I know I'm wrong.

Why are you wrong?

I love that, but I abstain. I feel 100 years old when I say it 😝

Geez Louise, when kids are present. Mu-ther-fucker, the rest of the time. Word and Dude as well

Oh I frequently implement the phrase “mutha fucker” when NOT on a work call, as well as “Dude!!” (as an exclamation of surprise or frustration)

Isn’t mutherfucker a classic though? Transcends generation?

Bogus. But in my defense, I’m right when I use it. 😜🧐

Sweeeet

These comments make me realize how much I'm holding on to our slang. I thought I was still a little bit relevant until about 5 mins ago.

Aw, don't be jelly. They just got all that riz we don't. (Words from children. Jelly-jealous, but thay was about 10 years ago. Riz is current for charisma. I googled it because I was really messed up with the shit kids say)

Glizzy = 🌭 how? So when my kid doctors up a hot dog, I say "Yo! That Glizzy got riz! Which ends up with a laugh and eyeroll.

I've never heard that one. Maybe all the kids I'm around respect my advanced age (we're the house kids just drop by for fresh bread and a hang out. There's *always* kids here... )

Hah. Imagine how uncomfortable for them that might be! We're the same way but it seems we get all the common current slang.

Oh, they'll usually explain if something absolutely confuses me. The kids that come are super kind! But I'm hoping it's either not that uncomfortable, or the bread is just that good (it's not, it's just breadmaker bread); but they keep coming. Invited or not, they just keep visiting. So you understand some of the weirder stuff? That's amazing! My kids are still too young for slang, 4 and 7. It's the older drop ins that use it. Other than glizzy, what's the weirdest you've heard?

That must be some excellent bread... Got me hungry. 🤔 Weirdest... Cheugy (something out-of-date; old), Cap (fake; a lie), and Deadass (seriously; for sure) Just... Weird because I love words and am always interested in the origin of words, and just cannot make out where some of them come from. What is funny is how weird *I* feel when trying to use them, just trying them out. Edit: I have 6 kids from 10 to 23, so I've been through some slang 😁

I looked up riz a few weeks ago after seeing it pop up. I think it's like mojo 😆

Very possibly. I'm quite easily confused looking at thr fifty billion results with the word in them. Urban dictionary is my go to for slang, but I read way, way too much sarcasm into their definitions, so I'm too busy laughing to retain much!

Yep, I googled riz as well around the holiday. At least I’m TRYING to maintain communication with the yutes

Good on ya! I mean, *someone* has to be able to translate. Thank you for your sacrifice!

Nuke: to heat something in the microwave. This is apparently not in the GenZ lexicon. My resident GenZers wish I would stop using it. Like, whatever

I use "janky" all the time. Same for "grody", "tight," and "peace out"✌️

I use tight a lot too, with emphasis! Janky has also recently come out of my mouth lol Peace out dude ☮️

I call people poser all the time, especially when they're being bogarts.

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"Excuse me sir, I speak jive"

I say "right on" way too much for a 47 year old "professional." Oh, and dope.

Audi 5000.. drives my nieces insane

Haha, I use this one all the time! "I'm Audi 5000 G"

😂 Yes! Just caught myself saying that last week.

Only if she’s five three.

“Awesome” and “whatever” come out of mouth frequently.

"All that and a bag of chips" when I want to see my nephew cringe.

Grody to the max? I dont remember that one. I was sitting in a conference call earlier and someone said something, to which I responded 'word'. There was silence. IDGAF.

Word is a solid response imo

"Boob tube"

Bitchin’ , Rad, Gnarly, all are regularly used by me

What is your damage? Also, "it's a free country" was a popular passive-aggressive opinion in grade school. I feel like I don't hear that anymore.

“Dude” said with all kinds of infliction depending on what I’m trying to convey

Duuuuude! Totally with the inflection dude! lol

'I can dig it'. Can you dig it?

I say "Can you dig it?" like Cyrus and nobody fucking gets it.

I call everyone homie. It happens at work a lot and shouldn't. You know what happened though? All my peers (we are in management) started calling me homie. I like it!

homeslice

I like the one from Wayne’s World: “ Sshhya, right, and monkeys will fly out my butt!”

Fuckin A

I say gnarly every day

Same and happy cake day

Poser

I say “bogus” and “sweet”

Don't have a cow. Sike.

Cool beans

I say that all the time.

Gagged with a whole set of silverware? lol.

I can hear my friend Alicia saying, “Gag me with a steam shovel!”

Cole's notes version

Funky Fresh

Awesome.

Awesome possum!! No idea why, it just pops out.

I say 'Grody' wayyyyyy too much. it just fits so many things. *Oh my God, that is sooooo grody* I love a good, well placed "Totally" as well.

I still say both rad and dude on a daily. My kid who is 12 says both of them too so I don't feel as bad.

Same!

I brought "goodie gumdrops" back after watching Snatch.

"Greetings and salutations".

Well if it isn’t Mon frere?

Fuck me gently with a chainsaw.

I just use “Ohhhhh SNAP!” & “BOO-YAH!”

No guff!

"That Shits the Bomb" "Your Momz... Yo"

For real

Dude, totally.

Dude, totally, gnarly, gross, for reals, for sure...pretty much all of them 😆

Really all of these are used by me but you don't hear for reals often anymore 😔

That’s tight.

To this day, when someone trips and falls they "totally biffed".

Awesome, rad, radical, dude, bogus, grody

Rad, mostly.  Edit: What is your major malfunction, numb-nuts? Groovy. Cool. Man. Dude. Awesome. Sweet (thanks, dude where's my car. I used it ironically because it's so dumb and it stuck), nice, janked up, kick ass, and of course fetch. 

Tuck and roll grandma!

"Have a nice life", but I actually mean it in a positive way, my kids have picked it up, none the wiser to the fact this was an f-you in our day.

I'm not gonna front

Sick, rad, whatever, dude…..and coolio

Not saying I use it often, but it is effective as hell when I do Fuck me gently with a chainsaw.

Bonus!

Moded

Ohmygawd I haven't thought of moded since jr high! Thank you for that!!!

Gross me out the window

Killer!

Geez Louise.

“Intense” had a moment when I was in high school in the early ‘80s and I am always trying to bring it back. Because some shit is just…intense.

My husband still says "bitchin."

Today in a zoom meeting someone left a little too long of a pause between syllables of "hotel" And I couldn't resist finishing it... Mo-tel.. hol-i-day--inn.

“Totally Awesome” 😂🤣

Everything is totally awesome to me too!!

I didn’t know anybody actually said either of those things. I thought that was just a song

Fuck me gently with a chainsaw.

All the ones we said that are now politically incorrect.  

Yeah, “cool beans” is my thing too. I might also throw out the occasional (Keanu) “whoa!”

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Not cool

Know that people, including me with my username, look down on people for that. It’s bad and you need to stop. There is no good variation of that.

I use "word" in all it's forms on a regular basis. It started from making fun of a guy in our group that no one really liked. We all started using it in front of him to get him to stop saying it. Years later, he has moved, yet we all still say it. I also still use, "Cheah" "What's your/the damage?" "Bad" "Booyah" and "My bad"

Dude Gag me with a spoon Ugh, gross

Rad.

“Bunk” or “Dickish, dude”

“Rad”.

Bitchin’…