WHAT SLANG WORD ARE YOU SICK OF?
Reddit asked, “What slang expression are you sick of?” Some of the answers:
– “People calling something a ‘hack.’ No, it’s a tip.”
– “I knew I had to quit cold turkey when I called my toddler son ‘bro.’”
– “I still call my adult daughters ‘dudes.'”
– “Preggers”
– “Pregananant”
– “I am today years old.”
– “My middle schooler quickly stopped using ‘sus’ (‘suspect’ or ‘questionable’) when his friends were in the car with us and I commented that something was ‘sus.’ Whole group of 11-year-olds got quiet real quick and started whispering ‘bro, did your mom just say sus.”BRO, that’s so cringe.’ Then I asked them why I was cringe and told them I was just trying to stay hip with the cool words. Pretty sure my son died inside a little that day.”
– “I hated ‘yeet.’ So I’d say stuff like “Can I yeet you some potatoes?” or “Could you yeet the garbage to the curb for me?” It totally worked. My kids stopped saying yeet all the time.”
– “Sorry, not sorry.”
– “Everyone saying rizz lately is driving me insane.” (rizz is someone who’s good at flirting: ‘charisma.’)
– “‘I did a thing’ is the single most annoying phrase in all of English to me.”
– “My parents used to call each other ‘babes’ completely ironically, making fun of particular couples they knew. They hated it. But now they only call each other ‘babes.'”
– “I always described my little brother’s current obsession with the word ‘The’ and then add an S to the end like: ‘Ooh playing The Fortnites? Or, are you winning on The Pokemans?’ It always drove them nuts.”
* Isn’t it weird to realize the expression “Gettin’ jiggy with it” is 30 years old?
* So we’re officially past “fleek”? Oh, thank God.
* If any of these are words you actually like, all I can say is … Sorry, not sorry.
* I used to keep telling people they were “lookin’ phat,” but I always had to explain it was the “P-H-A-T” phat, not the “F-A-T” fat. At least in most cases. Apologies to my neighbor lady.
* PHONE TOPIC: Do you screw around with your kid’s slang?








