Hey, bro, this jacket is dope!
Where did you get it from?
Thank you. What do you mean? My jacket is dope and sick. What does that mean?
Dope and sick?
Hey guys
It's Sam here.
It's Danny here.
So welcome back to our channel.
Today, we're doing a video on the 10 most popular slang phrases and words in North America in the English language
Let's start.
Okay
So, I guess using slang is a big part of people's daily life.
I remember when I first came to Canada, I didn't really know what the kids are talking about back in the day
because they were using slang.
These slangs are actually -- they have an expiry date
So, it might be popular for a couple years and then the next year they might come up with some new slangs,
especially in social media nowadays
they're constantly creating new slangs that people are using
and that you have to keep up because otherwise you're just --
you just like --
Yeah, you fall behind.
You fall so behind because slangs just keep constantly --
Yeah, it's always evolving.
Exactly. So today we're going to share the 10 most popular slangs in 2018
which you can hear every single day on the people's daily life.
Let's start!
So number one.
A few slang words to describe that something is excellent or great or amazing.
So these are
cool
awesome
wicked
sick
dope
tight
beauty
and bomb
Yeah, so all these words, the literal translation is something totally different, not "excellent".
But when you talk about in slang, it means "excellent"
Exactly
So, like I said, you can say that's a dope jacket or that's a sick car.
Sick, or dope, these just mean something is very cool, very, very great.
and these are very, very common
I guess we use it every single day
Yeah
Okay, number two
Stoked
Stoked means excited
You can say, especially for snowboarders or all those people doing those extreme sports, they use the word stoked a lot
Like, I'm so stoked about snowboarding tomorrow, or I'm so stoked about the Super Bowl next year
So these are like -- stoked it's a pretty common slang.
Yeah, it's pretty common.
Yeah, I guess your brother use them quite often too, right?
Yeah.
So speaking of brothers, so let's move on to number three
So here's a few slang words that you describe a friend
A male friend
A male friend. You know, you call them brother
What else you call them?
Bro, or buddy, or homie
Yeah, or like dude.
So like, hey dude or like, hey champ, hey bro
Alright, so slang number four
When you say something like it's alright. You know, it's okay, it's alright
you can say no worries
No worries
so I can say, hey sorry that I am late
Oh it's okay. No worries.
Or I could just say, I'm sorry, babe -- like I use it all the time on the phone
I'll be like, sorry babe, I'm late. I'm just, you know, the traffic jam
I'm so sorry. I'm going to be 10 minutes late.
Well, I could say, it's okay, no worries. But usually I just get mad.
Yeah. So you can say, yeah, no worries. Hey, no worries. No worries. Okay
Yeah
It's my favorite word. No worries. You know, I'm always positive.
I will say no worries. Don't worry about it. No worries
So literally it means, just don't worry about it. Or that's okay, it's all right
Yeah, don't stress over it.
Very, very useful word
Number five.
Chill
So chill is one of my favorite words, for slang
So chill basically means --
you can either describe someone who is very easygoing and very laid-back
or you can mean something is just so awesome and great
So you can say, hey how do you like Mike? How do you like our manager Mike?
You can say, oh --
He's so chill.
He's so chill. He's such a --
He's cool and laid-back
He's chill and laid-back. He's very chill. You know, he's a chill guy
Also, it means something like hang out.
If you want to hang out with someone you can say, let's chill
instead of saying let's hang out, let's gather together, do something
You say, hey buddy let's chill. Let's chill tonight. Let's Netflix and chill
Netflix and chill
I think that means something else.
Whatever, but it's a very, very common word that you should use on your daily basis. It just means hang out
All right, but don't tell girls that you want to netflix and chill
Yeah, that means something else.
Alright. Let's move on to slang number six
Lit
Lit is the word that I actually didn't know until probably four or five weeks ago
when I hear other people saying it and then I start to like try to search it and then figure out what that means
And I see people -- those rappers, those celebrities use the word all the time, they use the word lit all the time.
So, finally I figured out what that means
It has two meanings, right?
It has two meanings. So either it means something is amazing or awesome just like, wicked dope and sick.
It means something is lit
For example, like a party. It's like, oh my god, this is the best party. It's so lit.
Yeah, I think yeah, you describe an event, you wouldn't describe a person
Yeah, you don't --
You don't say like that guy is lit.
Yeah --
I mean, maybe, bu it's not common
Yeah, you don't say someone --
It's more like an event.
Yeah, you say like, oh the Drake concert last week was lit.
Yeah
So it means that it's all awesome, so great, right?
or it can also mean like, you know, I see celebrities nowadays say like oh my god, I was so lit last night
oh my god, it's so crazy, the party's so crazy, I'm so lit, I was so lit
It means that you were so drunk, like you're drinking too much
We don't drink but yeah
That's why we don't catch that phrase that much, because we don't drink but we hear people saying that a lot.
Lit .
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Okay. So --
moving on.
Phrase number seven
This is the phrase that I actually use all the time.
It's when someone's inviting you to do something and you agree, you can say I'm game
or I'm down or yeah, I'm in
It's literally just saying yes. Sure. Let's go
So it's very common
If someone asked you, hey Samar, you want to get pizza tonight?
Yeah, I'm down
Yeah? Samar do you want to get wontons?
Yeah, I'm game.
Alright. So yeah, I'm game, I'm down. These are very very common phrases.
So these are very common slang
Yeah
All right
Slang number eight
Legit
Legit is the word that I used all the time this year
I don't know, I love using this word because I hear other people using it all the time.
So legit, it means something that is real and not fake or something is really cool.
You can say oh my god, this jacket is so legit. This Versace jacket, Versace -- this Versace jacket is legit.
So it means it's so real, it's so authentic, it's so cool
or you can say, my god, this Indian food, this Indian curry is so legit.
It means it's just so authentic.
It's such authentic Indian food, you can say it's so legit.
Yeah
How often do you use legit?
I use it every now and then.
Yeah? It's pretty common right?
Yeah, it's really common.
Alright, so let's move on to number nine
Number nine is a good one
I'm good.
So when someone asks you to do something and you don't feel like doing it, just say I'm good
so basically it means like no thanks
Yeah it's like saying no thanks
So you can say, do you want me to buy some curry tonight?
I'm good.
You're good? Okay. Do you want have some sweets?
I'm good.
How about some candies?
Okay, I'll have candy.
Yeah, okay, she want to have candies. She's never going to say I'm good for candies.
Yeah.
Yeah, candy is always good
All right, so
So last but not least
Last but not least, be a good sport about something.
It means when someone is playing fair
or you know, whether it's a defeat or victory and someone is just really easygoing
you can say someone is a good sport
Or you can say, be a good sport
You know, a good example is like, I know you're disappointed that you lost this game, but you can be a good sport.
or when you watch a soccer game and your team lost the game and you start going crazy
you start swearing, someone can say, hey man, be a good sport
you know, be someone who is easygoing, who plays fair
who is just gracious, whose gracious about the defeat, you say be a good sport.
I use it quite often
What do you think?
Yeah
Good. All right
Guys, here today, we shared the ten most common slangs in 2018 that we use in our daily lives
I'm very excited about this episode because these are the words that I use all the time
I would love to share more with you in the near future regarding slangs
let me know if you enjoyed this video
if you have some other slangs that you want to share with other people leave a comment.
So if you guys want to learn any more slangs, let us know in the comments below
and we'll definitely put out a new video with more slangs
Or if there's any other sort of topic or English subject you want us to cover, let us know
because if you don't then we don't know to produce that content for you
Exactly. We want to do more videos like this
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