“[Fire means] really good, better than good like you would say ‘thats fire’”
“If you say lowkey, I’ll use it like ‘this is lowkey good.’ when you first see it, it’s not the best thing in the world but after a little while it starts to grow on you.”
“Slaps or hits is usually about food. For example ‘that pizza slaps’”
“My favorite word is ‘purr’ because I feel like it’s funny and I use it a lot and it’s just means like ‘yay.’”
“Another one of my favorite words is probably ‘sus’ because I also find it really funny. It just means ‘suspicious.’”
“I think people learn about them over social media and I feel like they were born by people just cutting words in half”
“Fox was what guys would call girls and then hunk was what we would call some cute guy, like ‘He’s a hunk, look at that hunk.”
“People would say ‘Man, you’re trippin’ like you’re acting foolish [or] you’re acting ridiculous.”
“Ralph was if somebody’s about to get sick. ‘Hey, don’t don’t ralph in my car,’ don’t throw up in my car. “
“Some of our slang came from movies, at least some of your [slang] too, because we didn’t have social media.”
“Rizz, in my day, we would call it game. I don’t know if kids still say game. Because you say game in that context, like ‘Oh, he’s got some serious game.’ Now they say rizz. I find that word amusing.”
“I still said things like cool. I remember there were people that said things like cool beans.”
“I know lots of slang terms. I try to stay current and know what the youths are saying. I go to the Gen Z Wikipedia dictionary, just to check out what’s new and different.”
