- Oh, interesting.
- Oh! - This so hard.
- This is really hard.
- You gonna turn it up, let's-
- The mandem was not ready (giggles)
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- Hi, my name is Ashley,
and today I'm gonna be guessing London slang.
- I have some family over there, so I know a little bit.
Yeah, like very little (laughs).
- I know about Croydon, that's about it.
(Kojo laughs)
My aunt lives there.
(Kojo laughs)
Other than that, I don't know anything really.
- I know about double-decker buses,
Big Ben, the bridge.
(Justin laughs)
That's pretty much it.
- I don't know too much about London.
I've never been, but I've watched "Top Boy" (both laugh)
- I have two season of "Top Boy" under my belt
so like, do you feel me?
I know 'innit', 'man's', 'bruv's, 'mandem'.
I know 'peng' (laughs)
- 'Peng'.
- I feel like 'innit' comes to mind.
- I think it would be maybe similar
just because there's a lot of West Indian culture
in New York and London, so maybe.
- I know they say 'ting' a lot (laughs)
I don't know. I can't keep up.
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- [Narrator] Bait.
- [Both] Bait? (both laugh)
- Oh that sounds like an insult, like that's--
- [Both] Trash.
- Like if you know if you about to lie,
like if I'm like "oh, let's go out Joe, it's on me"
but I know I don't have money, like that's bait.
Like I'm trying- I'm trying to embarrass myself
and I know I'm going to.
- I don't know, is it like
tryna to start a fight or some shit?
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- Oh like he's mixy.
- Oh okay.
- Oh.
- [Narrator] Allow.
- Like lift her off?
That's what it feels like to me in my head.
Like it would just be like, let it rock.
- Nah bro. That's the actual definition of allow.
It can't be.
- Like let me rock. I feel like that would be like
'thug'; the translation to New York slang.
- We'll just let it happen.
- Like I'll allow it, like,
I'm rolling with that (laughs)
(both laughs)
How?
- That's the opposite of what I said.
- Damn bro be doing bad. (laughs)
- [Narrator] Innit.
- Okay.
- Isn't it?
- [Victoria] Exactly, "isn't it".
- Yeah, like 'huh' or like a-
- Innit. (lauhgs) - Yeah.
- It's how we say 'deadass' could be a question,
a confirmation. Like 'innit'. I was like "innit", like
you can agree, or you can question something with 'innit'.
- I know we got that one right.
- [Narrator] Jam.
- Jam? (both laugh)
- Increase your height, to increase something?
Jam it.
- I see where you went with that, okay.
- Like very lit?
- Like that's my thing; I'm gonna say.
- Yeah. I think like that's my jam, like I like it.
- I don't know.
- Honestly these are harder than I thought.
(both laugh)
- Oh yeah, I'm gonna have
to write these down (both laugh)
- [Narrator] Inner.
- I'm totally lost in that one.
- Probably Imma have to leave that one.
- Like you too, like you,
you move it too hot, like suspicious?
- I know I'm gonna be wrong, but I'm going to say like,
in a minute, like you feel me? I'm about to inner,
like me inner, me innit; I don't know (both laugh)
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- Oh. - Okay.
- Oh, interesting. - Ooh!
- This is so hard. - This is really hard.
- You gonna turn it up, listen--
- The mandem was not ready (laughs)
- [Narrator] Lips.
- Like you too chatty?
- Yeah, I'm rolling with that; you talk too much.
- Like he lips somewhere. I think that's kissing.
- I don't even know, Imma go with Idi on that.
- Watch it mean something like "you talk too much"
and I'm over here like 'you wanna kiss someone'?
- 'Lips' means to be quiet.
Look, Shyanne got it right!
- Ahh! - Oh, wow, okay.
- [Narrator] Long.
- What? (both laugh) Uh-
- Is it, like, 'it's too much'.
- Definitely like he don't like something,
like it's annoying, like that's long.
- Far? Like that's too far?
- We gon' go with far
because Shyanne was right last time, so (Shy laughs)
- Ah, okay!
- Yeah, I can see that, but you consider something's
far too though, right? Like you like mm, that's long.
- [Narrator] Next man.
- Like not me, basically?
Wrong person I'm gonna say.
- I think I'm gonna go with that one too.
- That's like when we first like met,
who's man is that, like, who's mans is that?
- Next man opposition.
- When you talking to that 'he up, he up'.
- Two points (both laugh).
- Who's next man's is this.
- Where do they come up with this stuff (laughs).
- [Narrator] Peng.
- You can say anything that looks good as peng.
So there'll be like a person or like someone like,
'Oh that's peng'.
- You surely peng, like this food's peng like fire.
- Peng ting.
- See, we oughta comeback (laughs)
- [Narrator] Youngen.
- I don't know, I just feel like it's obvious,
like I don't know if I want to guess the obvious.
- 'Cause this like you know, some things be obvious
but then you think one thing and then you saying
it's like yeah, nah, it's just like-
- Yeah, totally wrong. (both laugh)
- Oh that's my young boy, like that's my son.
- Ya, yeah yeah, like my son.
- I'm gonna be like little mans, like-
- Yeah, like in Top Boy; the little homies,
there's the youngest, right?
I knew that show would pay up.
- [Narrator] Yard.
- Like, where are you from?
Like, Oh you from yard, like Jamaica,
like, you know what I mean, yard, it's like--
- Like house; where you live. - Yeah.
- Oh, that's the crib.
- Yeah. You gotta stay in your own yard, like,
yo, stay at your house bro.
- It's on the ends, kind of. (laughs)
- [Narrator] Garms.
- Oh, like, clothes?
- Mm, yeah, I'm going with the sit.
- Like clothing? I'm gonna say.
- Yeah. It's like garment maybe.
- Yeah, that's what I'm thinking.
- Your garms, your garments short for garment.
We get it, ooh!
- We did aight, we came back in the end.
- Towards the end we was a little bit strong ,
like you know what I'm saying,
like we started to pick up on the things.
- We did terribly!
- I would've passed me in college. (both laugh)
I would've been good.
- And when you actually go to London
it's like, somebody will be talking to you like
"I know what that means".
- Exactly (laughs). - But yeah.
- I'm about to use all these words.
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