- I feel like everyone knows a Karen, like mom knows what a Karen is.
- Mom's much cooler than I am.
- I literally tell her sometimes.
I'll be like you're being such a Karen right now. (laughs)
♪ (upbeat intro) ♪
- (FBE) Alright, here's your first slang word.
- Shook, oh, I know what this, obviously I know what this means,
but do you know what this means?
- No, I don't know what it means.
- I will say that shook is a synonym for dissed.
- For what? - They shook me.
Dissed, dissed, you know what dissed means?
They shook me.
- Apparently I'm too caught up in the slang,
I don't know what the normal vocab words.
Gosh!
- I know what it means, 'cause I used it,
or like I've kinda told Jayka I'm so shook.
I'm surprised, yeah?
- Like it's literally like you're shocked almost.
- Oh, shocked? - But it's called shook.
Like oh, I'm shook.
- So what does it mean?
- Like when you see something that you didn't expect,
or you see something that you're like wow.
- Is it more like duh?
- No, it's look shook, like what?
Like you didn't expect. It's like something you didn't expect.
- Oh my gosh, One Direction got back together.
- (gasps) I'm shook!
(both laugh)
You, don't you say shooketh too?
She says shooketh. (laughs)
♪ (quirky interlude) ♪
Oh, I know this one, flex is when you're
trying to show off?
Yeah?
My mom asked me or you, she was like what's a flex?
Remember that? - Yeah, she was like what's a flex?
- It was literally the other day.
- Okay, you should know this one.
- Flex, flex is more like... - Flex.
- Being cool? No?
- Okay, no, it depends.
It's not really being cool, it's like oh, I have chains,
oh I have diamond, that's a flex.
- Really? - Yeah!
- Think about like flexing, but not in this flexing.
- Yeah, yeah. - Like why do you flex?
That's the only hint you get.
- Yeah, no, you're flexing, you're coming out of your shell.
You're expressing yourself.
- Dad, I just gave you like six hints.
- You said it's not what you would think it would be.
- No but like why do you flex?
Like, you're showing your muscle, right?
- Sure. - But like, think about another term.
You're showing off your muscle, but think about flexing another term.
Like you're, I just told him what flexing means.
- Yeah, I'm opening up!
- This is like flexing, but like not this kind of flexing.
If someone says like oh, I just got a new diamond ring.
That's like oh, you're flexing that. You're basically flexing...
- Flexing, showing off. Showing off!
- You're showing off, yeah.
- I think I was partway there.
- Mmm, he was a little off. A little off.
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- Hmm.
- I don't even know what that means, to be honest.
- I don't know, to me, it feels like, it's more like,
get it done.
- (FBE) Ella, do you know what this means?
- I don't, I mean, I honestly don't.
- (laughs) If she doesn't know, how am I supposed to know?
- I think I know what this one...
Is it when, like, you look back?
- But like looking back at what?
- You're gonna break necks, like because, you're so,
I don't know, stunning? Is that what it means?
Like you're, oh, that girl's so stunning,
she's gonna break necks, yeah?
- Yeah, she got it! Yeah! (laughs)
- (FBE) Break necks is when a person is so attractive,
others break their neck in order to look back at them.
- Oh!
- I would never have gotten that.
- I think I'd break necks. - Yeah, you do.
And me too, what you think? What you mean, I do!
Look how beautiful you are, where do you think you came from?
I break necks.
♪ (quirky interlude) ♪
- (FBE) Here's your next word.
- Okay yeah, I do know what this means.
- Cappin', and no cap.
- Oh, I know this one, I use this one all the time, no cap.
- You do? - Yes, no cap.
- Oh no? - It's kind of like period, no cap.
- I have no idea what it is.
- Oh, I know this one!
- Say it please, say it. - Cappin', no cap.
Cappin', lying? - Yeah.
- Cappin' is the more
contemporary word for hip.
That outfit be cappin'.
- So cap means like you're lying, so when you say no cap,
it means like no lie, like I ain't lying.
Like, this is completely true.
- Oh, okay.
- It's like I'm pretty, no cap.
- So but do you have to have like an attitude, no cap,
or I can go like no cap, or just like no cap,
I have to put an attitude on it?
- You don't have to do this, but it's just, I don't know,
I just like, no cap.
- Cappin' means like, basically you're lying.
Like if I were to say... - Oh!
- Oh my gosh, I saw a celebrity, and you're like...
- You're fronting, you're fronting, you're fronting?
How would I say no cap, then?
- No cap means like, legit.
Like if I said, I broke my leg...
- No lying.
- I'm like no cap, like legit, I did break my leg.
- Ah, thank you. - You're welcome.
♪ (quirky interlude) ♪
- Oh, I think I know this one. - Oh, you have to!
If you don't know this, then like, we're done.
- You are extra. - I know! (laughs)
- You're extra, all the time.
- That's you! Extra!
- Extra means just a little bit, a little bit over the top personality.
A little extra.
- Daddy, give it to me!
- Some might say my daughter, at times,
is a little extra.
- To be extra is being this kind of person
who is, stands out, you're not like normal.
You're this person everybody will remember.
- I mean, everybody calls me extra. So... (laughs)
- It's like when I tell her oh, Jayka, we're going to,
let's go to a drive through real quick and then she's like,
comes out dressed like we're going to fancy dinner.
It's like oh, we're literally going to a drive through.
♪ (quirky interlude) ♪
- (FBE) This one, I think you're gonna know.
- Oh! - Oh. (sighs)
- Dad, you have to. - You've said this before,
and I don't recall it.
- You don't know what a Karen is?
I feel like everyone knows a Karen, like Mom knows what a Karen is.
- Mom's much cooler than I am.
- A Karen is someone who complains about everything?
- I literally tell her sometimes,
I'll be like you're being such a Karen right now. (laughs)
- I didn't know what Karen was until I started watching TikTok,
and everybody's like "that's a Karen,"
and I was like Arlene, what's a Karen?
And she was like you don't know what a Karen is?
Karen is just this person who thinks they know it all,
or they like to report all the time.
- Or they like to say report to the managers.
- (FBE) A Karen is a person, often a middle-aged white person,
who is demanding or entitled at the expense of others.
- Oh those, yeah, we've called so many people Karens.
- Okay, yeah, you've said it a few times.
- We have, no that's true.
- I need to pay attention more. - He does.
♪ (quirky interlude) ♪
- For clout? - Clout, clout, clout!
This has been, this, clout has been there for so long.
- Use it in a sentence. - Use it?
- Is it like for God's sake?
- Oh, it's like Charlie has all the clout.
- What? - Charlie has all the clout.
- I know what the word clout means, so,
to hold yourself or someone else in higher esteem, clout.
- Not bad. - For popularity?
- (FBE) Yeah, can you get more specific?
In what context?
- Like social media, I know this one,
'cause I see it too, a lot.
- So what do we call people that do that?
- Clout-chasers. (laughs)
- See? (laughs)
- She's, I learned all this from her. - She knows all of it, okay?
- If someone is basically using someone for their own benefit.
Like, if someone has followers, and you're only friends with them
for the followers, that's clout.
- You're using someone.
- You're using someone for your own benefit.
- Okay, alright.
So kinda like you used me to drive here today, for clout.
- Maybe.
- (FBE) Kae, how do you think you did today?
- I did pretty well! - You got 100%!
- I think I, I'm catching up. - Eh, okay, I guess,
maybe it's 'cause I use a lot of slang in the house, but...
- I'm gonna pay a lot of attention when you're talking to your friends,
and then I'll go Google it to find out what it is.
Then I'll decide can I use it, is it for teenagers?
Will I look like her?
- Yeah, please don't use it around anybody,
you'll be so embarrassing, please! Please don't!
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