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- (FBE) Today, we're going to see how well you know modern vernacular
by showing you a few slang words or phrases used today.
- Oh yeah! (laughing) They should be amusing.
- When you just hang around a retirement home
with a bunch of old people, you don't hear slang.
- I live in a world where I don't need really to keep up
with modern slang.
- I imagine I haven't gotten wiser since last time. (laughing)
- I still have teenage kids, so I might be okay.
- If I don't understand what my daughter is telling me--
she's 18-- she will correct me.
- I'm kind of hip.
I mean, I watch, you know, music videos.
I think I might do pretty good.
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- (FBE) Here is your first word.
- "Shook."
You know, we're shaking some sense into someone.
- "Shook," like, "I shook her until she cried."
- Like you shake somebody or something?
- Like moving?
- I don't know how I would use it, unless it's "you got all shook up."
- Well, I would think "all shook up,"
but I'm sure there's a much more modern meaning to it.
- That means that you're upset. You're all shook up.
♪ Uh-huh-huh ♪
Remember that, from Elvis, the King?
Of course, you don't remember that.
- (Elvis) ♪ All shook up ♪
♪ Uh-huh-huh ♪
- Somebody was shocked?
- Shocked.
- "Shook" means you're very upset.
You're shook.
Your world's been shaken.
And it makes sense, so it's probably not the right answer.
- (FBE) So this word is "shook."
It is a term used to describe when one is scared or shocked.
- Oh, okay.
"I'm shook." I've never heard that.
- I feel like I'm hip now that I know "shook."
(laughing)
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- (FBE) So here is your next one.
- That looks like "ghosting." - (FBE) Do you know it?
- No.
- I'm sure that it's not that ghosts are coming in.
- I think I've heard it, but I can't remember how it was used.
- "Ghosting" is when you pretend to be someone else?
- You pretend you're not there.
You're keeping a low profile.
- Somebody disappearing.
- Possibly somebody watching your situation,
but not wanting to be involved, so they're ghosting it.
- If they're ghosting someone on the web
or on Facebook, does that mean that they're not replying
or trying to sort of unfriend them?
- (FBE) So "ghosting" is the act of someone ceasing
all communication with you, so this could be not hearing back
from a friend you made plans with
or, more popularly, from someone you're dating
in the hope that you'll get the hint.
- Ah, I like it.
In my day, we would have just said, "Hey, buddy.
Hey, sweetie. Move on."
- So it's like they've disappeared on you.
They're ghosting you. They're not responding.
Huh. I could use that.
- I think it's better to communicate and say what's so.
- Didn't know all those years that guys were ghosting me.
- I did not reply a text that my daughter sent me.
I think that's-- I'm ghosting then, right?
- It's a good way to say I'm gone, I'm ghosting.
I disappeared. I left. I don't exist anymore. Forget me.
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- (FBE) Here is your next slang. - "Triggered."
Means loaded and ready to go.
- Activate?
- It means start the ball rolling.
- "Trigger" is you irritate somebody.
- Like someone egging you on.
Someone pushing your buttons.
- It could mean, if something was triggered,
it was the start of something.
- I would think it would mean you were, uh--
acted a certain way because of something.
- You said something to someone, it triggered an emotion in them,
or a thought in them, or a process in them,
that reminded them of something else.
- (FBE) So "triggered" is when you see or hear something you hate
and then get filled with rage.
- Yeah! Yeah, you set them off, right.
- Everybody gets triggered.
- That's what I've been experiencing since November 9th.
Wow, okay. I'm definitely triggered.
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- (FBE) Here is your next slang. - "Savage."
Heh. Like an angry beast.
- I heard this one before. I know I did!
But I just couldn't recall what it's meaning.
- Someone who is from a backwards or backwards type of society.
- It's kind of a demeaning term for a person or a group.
- Uncivilized would be savage to me.
- Maybe you have no manners or no etiquette.
- Somebody who's very unpleasant, unfriendly?
- Acting without any boundaries.
- They'd say, "Oh, she's savage."
It's like-- but it's a compliment.
- Getting one over on somebody maybe, but in a bit of a mean way, I think.
- (FBE) So savage is when someone does something
badass or brutal in a good way.
- Well, that's confusing because...
the term we know, "savage" is something that's not good.
- Oh, awesome. I like that word.
Now I'm going to be using that a lot.
- Everyone in your group-- "Hey!
Man, you savaged that guy."
If I could learn all these terms, I could say things to people
and they wouldn't know what I was talking about,
at least the people that I hang around with,
where half of 'em are drooling anyway.
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- (FBE) So here is your next slang. Do you know it?
- "Breadcrumbing."
No-- well, I know what bread crumbs are. (laughing)
- Bread could be money.
- To me, that would mean you're eating scraps from the table.
"Breadcrumbing" might be retracing your steps.
- I would think someone's leaving a trail of bread crumbs on the ground
for someone to follow.
- You know, because you're dropping clues,
so probably leading somebody on?
- (FBE) So "breadcrumbing" is when you send out
flirtatious messages to someone to keep their interest,
but never actually commit.
- Hmm, that's being awful slick, huh?
Well, the way you describe it, I think it's pretty cool, actually.
- I don't think I've ever heard anybody using this word at all.
- I kind of got it.
I think that's okay.
It's a great way to get attention for yourself.
- I thought they called that "playing them."
- It's flirting and just to have fun flirting
and not go any further than that.
- I've been married and in a relationship for 35 years,
so I don't breadcrumb.
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- (FBE) Here is your next. - "Woke."
Well, "awoke."
I have no idea. (laughing) I have never seen that word like that.
- "I woke with a headache" or "I woke with a woody"
or whatever the hell you're going to awake with.
- Something new and they just react and say, "Whoa!"
- Someone says something to you and you didn't quite understand it,
and they need to repeat it and then you say, "Oh, yeah, I woke.
I understood it."
- I'd just say realization of something.
- It means you're aware.
- I'm aware of everything around me.
- You are so super aware of something
that you are going to do something about it.
- (FBE) So the more "woke" someone is,
the more they understand about a topic,
typically current events or social injustice.
- So it's kind of like-- almost like another compliment?
- Sort of really have knowledge about what they're saying
instead of just spouting off.
- "Yeah, he's so woke."
It just doesn't sound like proper English.
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- (FBE) Here is your last one.
- Extra! Extra! Read all about it!
- "Extra" is like this person has more to give.
- "Extra," you get something more than you expected.
- Maybe if you were a third wheel, or an extra person.
- "Extra" would be something not needed almost,
but you have to have it.
- Something that you can do without.
- It's just something past what you expected.
- (FBE) So "extra" is when someone or something is just too much
or over the top. - Oh, okay!
Then it's like perky to the point of motion sickness,
which I have been described as.
- Someone who's loud, obnoxious, at a party or whatever.
"Hey, that guy's being extra, right?
What an extra pud!"
- "She's extra.
I mean, she talk too much."
- See, that's another one of those that is not too far off.
If I heard someone saying it, I would understand it.
- That's a neat use of that word.
I like that. I will use that.
- I learned something today. - (FBE) Woo!
- Good.
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