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15 Z-generation slang you should know quietly.
Talking to teenagers or reading Tik Tok's comments carefully sometimes makes people feel like trying to decipher a new language. However, although some Z-generation slang has indeed been created on the Internet in recent years, many terms originated decades ago and usually appear in LGBTQIA+ or black communities (or the intersection of the two). Here are 15 expressions of zoomer worth knowing-although slang will soon become obsolete, there is no guarantee that children will find it cool if you use it.

1. Seuss

Sus-short for suspicious or suspicious-describes suspicious behavior. Promoted by the players of the 20 18 online game Among Us, the crew of an alien spaceship tries to determine who is the impostor (or dead). However, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, English speakers have been using sus in this way since at least 1950s, and its origin in law enforcement can be traced back to 1930s.

2. Stan

Eminem coined this word in the song Stan in 2000. In this song, a man named Stan took his obsession with Eminem to the extreme. The following year, when Nass mentioned Stan in his iconic Jay-Z diss track Ether, he helped to expand its meaning to "any obsessed fan". Although these early beginnings are a derogatory term, Stan (now lowercase) has been reused by a large number of moldy fans, Buzz and other members of certain fan groups, who are proud of Stan -dom on their sleeves. You can also use stan as a verb. This trend began around 2008.

3. Chugi

Gaby Rasson is a software developer in Los Angeles. She invented the word cheugy (pronounced "chew-gee") when she was a high school student in 20 13, and it became popular after she published an article about it in Tik Tok in Hallie Cain in 20021. This term describes anything that is slightly unfashionable, outdated and/or timid, such as becoming a Disney adult; The word adult; Decorations featuring platitudes or witticisms; What any other nearby Z generation tells you is "cheugy". It depends on the explanation.

4. I am dead

My death is usually used to respond to something so interesting, outrageous and/or shocking that the speaker laughs to death (or dies altogether). Changes include dead, I'm dead or just skull emoji.

5.IYKYK

If you know, you know the abbreviations you know, IYKYK is usually used for content that has no context to share-whether it is a video taken at a party that only other participants can understand, or a childhood memory in the 1990s, unless other 1990s children need to explain. The exact source of the abbreviation is not clear at present, but Pusha T popularized the whole phrase with his song "If You Know" from 20 18. If you want to know the ins and outs of his lyric reference, you can also know that he broke it down here. )

Simple.

Simp is an insult to men. As Dictionary.com explained, "it is considered to be too attentive and obedient to women, especially because the hope of winning some qualified sexual attention or activities from them has failed." Simp, as the abbreviation of simpleton, can be traced back to the early days of 1900. Although there is no direct clue to link these two terms, today's Simp may have evolved from that term. (After all, it implies that this person is misled, even a little pitiful. In any case, the word "2 1 century" actually originated in the 20th century: West Coast rappers liked it too short and E-40 began to mention it in lyrics in the mid-1960s.

7. Different clicks

There are several main ways to use different clicks. One is to describe things that feel better under certain conditions-for example, the shock of waking up on Christmas morning is different (unlike waking up on an ordinary Wednesday). The other is to describe different things you experienced or explained after new information was exposed-it was this feeling that became popular in 20 19, when the YouTube duo Daniel Howell and Phil Lester both appeared as homosexuals, prompting their fans to re-examine their old content and read these interactions.

8. tea

1996, Mrs. Chablis and Marla Maples are at the charity fashion show of the Design Industry Foundation to fight AIDS.

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Tea, as a slang word of gossip, does not come from the meme of frog Cmit, but it's none of my business, or any other internet content related to tea. As Webster's dictionary explains, this word comes from the black cross-dressing scene in the 1980s and 1990s, and it is not only used to gossip about others. When the transsexual performer Lady Chablis mentioned her "T" in John Behrendt's nonfiction book "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil" in 1994, she meant her personal information. In her autobiography 1997, she pointed out that T stands for truth. T and tea-for personal truth and other people's secrets-were both used in the 1990s, but today tea is supreme.

9. See me off

These days, anything can be sent to you, that is to say, it makes you excited or excited. However, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, when this phrase originated around 1930, it is most commonly used in music that can "convey or arouse emotions" or "fascinate". "The popular artist or band that can successfully cover is the' sender'; They' send', "Vanity Fair wrote in 1935.

10. He/she/they ate.

Over the years, the verb "eat" has experienced many times in popular dictionaries. "Eat my shorts" was a severe criticism in the 1980s, saying that someone who ate it might mean really falling down. But now, when the Zer generation says that a person has eaten, eaten that, or finished this/that, it means that they have done well; It is usually applied to celebrity performances or costumes. For example, if a music video of BLACKPINK really suits you, you can even say, "They ate it up without leaving any crumbs."

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Bussin may be a branch of bustin', originally African American English-also known as African American language or African American vernacular English-an English dialect used by African Americans. It is specially used to describe food. Tik Tok user @chinaglivens used it in the vibrato video in March 2002/kloc-0, talking about fried chicken and hot sauce. Sound spreads like a virus, which helps to popularize this sentence among a wider audience. It is not uncommon to hear or see bussin mention inedible things these days. Nicki Minaj used it to describe many things in her 2022 song Bussin. Some African-Americans believe that non-blacks should not use this word at all, or at least should not be excluded from the cooking environment.

12. Avoid being conspicuous

For more than 200 years, people always put the words low-key and low-key together to describe low-key or low-key things. But Generation Z (and some millennials) were the first to give up hyphens and use this phrase as an adverb instead of an adjective or noun. In the 20th century, you might say "low-key songs" or "low-key paintings". Today, you can be "low-key excited" about something, or "low-key needs to rest" and stay away from social media. In other words, lowkey is basically a substitute for other adverb determiners, such as little and kinds. For example, this is not to imply that you are just a little excited about something, but more to express that you are really excited-just to show a little.

13. There is no upper limit.

If someone punctuates a message with no upper limit, it means that there is no lie or exaggeration. According to Genius, this sentence was first mentioned in the rap lyrics of the song Just in Case by Chief Keef and Gino Marley 20 1 1+0, and it has also been mentioned by other hip-hop artists such as Migos in recent tracks. But before cap, there were high cap or high CAPP in '- rappers like Too Short and Willie D began to use it in songs in the 1980s. "capping may be insulting someone, or someone bragging," Willie d told Genius. The word may be separated from playing dozens of games. One has been playing games in the black community for decades, and two people try to bake each other. Not only are insults often exaggerated or untrue, but the game is called capping in some circles.

14.Porges

Poggers is an expression of excitement, created by the Twitch community. Basically, Twitch is a platform for users to broadcast live content (originally just video games, now there are various live activities) and discuss it in chat rooms. You can send images with similar expressions, some of which have specific people or characters. Poggers is the title of an expression that describes the excitement of Pepe the cartoon frog. It may be related to an early expression named PogChamp, which is similar to the expression of Twitch gamer Ryan Gutierrez. (After Gutierrez won the video of Pogs, he called it PogChamp to compete with another player, but the images used to express it actually came from different videos. Although the word poggers itself seems uncontroversial, it is worth noting that Pepe the frog has been marked as a symbol of hatred, and after Gutierrez made a comment after the uprising on June 6, 65438, PogChamp expression has been deleted by Twitch.

15. Photinia

In 2020, Conan Gray released Heather, a song about unrequited love for a perfect girl named Heather. "But how can I hate her? She is really an angel, "Gray sings. This has launched a series of vibrato videos, in which users can identify their own "Heather"-anyone cute who looks like the protagonist, which has aroused people's admiration and jealousy. So, if someone calls you Heather, the correct response is "thank you" (or "Oh, my God, this was sent to me in a low-key way").