hi I'm Rachel bloom and I'll be teaching
you some dating slang Oh a meet-cute so
a meet-cute is when a couple meet and
it's in like a cute way like oh hold the
taxi that's my taxi haha you're
contrarian turkey drop I would have
found a friend for this one my makeup
artist Austin is young and dating
awesome what's a tricky job
Austin's useless a turkey drop is when
you're like in college and you come back
from a Thanksgiving break and you're
like I want to break up I thought about
it a lot over Thanksgiving bread
crumbing I'm gonna guess this is when
you leave little crumbs of Caring and so
you keep the person on the hook in a
very mean and inconsiderate way ghosting
is when you disappear on someone in
dating or with texting and you just
disappear you never gave them a solid
breakup you just go away you up well it
really this should be with just a you
you up is something that someone texts
you at like 3:00 4:00 a.m. when they
just want a booty call Netflix and chill
I believe has two meanings it's I want
to just go in for the night and chill
and watch some Netflix but also I think
it's code for I just want to hook up
what are we I don't know if it's a slang
this is something that you say to
someone who you're in a nebulous
relationship with another term might be
what is this or do we do side these is
like someone on the side it's someone
you're cheating on it's someone you're
cheating with Facebook official is when
you are in a relationship on Facebook
officially being Facebook official is a
very important moment it's also so that
the Russian BOTS can know who else to
target in your life
friends-with-benefits that's when two
people are friends but they're also
having intercourse or other sex acts and
that's the benefit a boy toy is usually
a younger male who maybe has shallow
desires and the person that they're
dating oh right it's someone a boy toys
a man you're using for fun and pleasure
and nine times out of 10 he's totally
cool with that hosting is when you say
on an app we can hook up at my place all
host
you can come to my place my parents
house a swiping right swiping left those
are terms that you use on tinder when
you like someone you swipe right and
when you don't like someone you swipe
left
physical appearances are the only
important thing in a relationship a
thirst trap is when you post a picture
online knowing you're gonna get a lot of
likes for it and so it's someone posting
a hot bikini pic I posted a picture we
made a bathing suit over the weekend
that I kind of think was a thirst trap
stashing is when you're hiding the
person that you're with from the rest of
your life so you're stashing them away
this is known as an emotionally abusive
relationship
so don't if someone's stashing you and
they're like let's just keep it between
us they're manipulating you and they're
an emotionally abusive person and no
millennial phrase can ever cover up for
emotional abuse slow fade is when you
just slowly ghost out of someone's life
but you do it slowly like you text them
less and less and less and less talking
- talking - is apparently when you're in
the beginning stages of a relationship
and you don't know what it is you just
say you're talking to them okay I'm
gonna call another lifeline Austin what
Sun cuffing season uncuffed season is
when everyone becomes single the warm
spring and summer months is uncovering
season because relationships are
shackles and that's the rumor that we
should all spread catch and release I
want to say is when you hook up with
someone and then you let them go back
into the world just as well as just as
emotionally sound as when you first got
them catching releases when you hook up
with someone and you don't become
emotionally attached to them
slide into the DM is when you direct
message someone either on Twitter or
Instagram but the cool way to phrase it
was like I'm just gonna slide into your
DMS real cool I have been with the same
man for 10 years before there was any
sort of D or M and the way he slid into
my DMS was a good old-fashioned date to
be left on red means when you send
someone a message and you can see that
they've read your message but they're
not responding benching benching I'm
gonna guess is where you have someone
who you've been hooking up with but it's
like they're gonna go on the sidelines
for this other better person I'm gonna
bench them I hope everyone's using
condoms I just want to say I hope
everyone's using condoms dental dams
swerve uh you just leave someone's life
very quickly Wow a lot of words for very
the same things okay it's when you're
dodging somebody I'm gonna swerve
shipping is when you root for a either
fictitious couple or made people in your
life to get together I ship them I ship
Ron and Hermoine even if after they're
still together they're there the
relationship you root for I learned a
lot of new slang terms but I also
learned that most of them are terms that
are ways to either describe like being
demeaning towards other people leaving
people or kind of trivializing a
relationship with other people and I I
think that sometimes these words in the
slang can alienate us more from real
human connection and so I would say use
these words but understand that people
have feelings and you can't be cutesy if
you've ghosted on someone haha it's so
funny to say that but you've actually
like disappeared from someone's life and
just using the courtesy and officially
break up with them just do that
you