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- (host) Okay, so today we're gonna see how savvy you are
to modern vernacular by showing you a few popular slang words or phrases.
- Uh-oh. I-I-- I'm in trouble.
- I'm an elder, man. Come on.
- I think it's gonna be a guessing game.
- Oh god.
Could you show me some that were used 40 years ago?
- I'm sure I've heard a few of 'em,
but I guarantee they're gonna be like a foreign language.
- That's easy.
The ones that we use on texting, for example, like the LOL.
OMG. (laughing)
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- (host) All right, so do you know it?
- "Slay?"
Kill?
- "Slay."
It means to kill.
- An old term, it'd be like somebody got killed.
- That slays me when something's funny.
- "You slay me." It's like a good term.
- Something that's really great.
- You slay me. You amaze me.
- When I'm gonna slay something, that means I'm gonna get it done big time.
I'm gonna get it done right. It's gonna be perfect.
- (host) "Slay" means to be the best at something.
So, for example, you could say, "Have you seen her outfit?
She looks great. That girl slays."
- Oh, so they don't say "stylin'" anymore, huh?
It used to be, "She's stylin'."
- It's a word that's been around a while.
- Come on, you kids!
Come up with something newer.
- She overwhelms me. She surprises me.
Yeah, that kind of makes sense.
- There was some other ones way back when.
"Sink me! Ho, sink me! This girl slays me."
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- (host) Do you know it? - "Lit."
I think of literature.
- You mean it means something other than, like, you lit a cigarette?
- "Lit," maybe to light up.
- "Lit" used to mean when you were high/drunk.
- If you were lit in, you know, some years ago,
that meant you were high on drugs.
- Somebody's high.
Or drunk.
- Somebody maybe being high.
He's just like-- he's on fire.
- (host) "Lit" is a term used to describe when someone
is extremely intoxicated or something that is amazing in any sense.
- Oh, I see.
It's like, "Oh, that's bad, man." Okay, except it's "lit".
- Oh, wait a minute. Intoxicated?
That's not new!
- So "lit" can be good or it could be the guy's just wasted.
- Actually, this one makes sense. Lit: happy, excited.
- They used "amazing" too often, so maybe "lit" is better.
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- (host) So do you know this one? - "The plug."
I'm completely stymied.
- One time I would use "the plug" is if they're gonna pull it.
- Putting an end to it. Breaking up with someone.
- I'm gonna "pull the plug."
In other words, I'm gonna stop this thing right now.
- Maybe somebody should stop talking, put the plug in their mouth.
- The only thing I can think of is a tampon.
You know, plug it up.
- (host) "The plug" is a term for your supplier of illegal drugs.
- Oh! (laughing)
I guess that's why I don't know about it.
- Really?
Well, that shows I'm clean.
- Like, what illegal drug? Like marijuana?
- No idea where this came from.
- It makes sense. It's a connection.
- That used to be "the connect".
How I know that? Who knows. (laughing)
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- (host) How about this one? Do you know it?
- "Ship?"
You mean that's something other than a boat?
- Yeah, it's a boat.
- Probably has some new kind of meaning,
but it always meant to just send something.
- If you ship something, you're sending it.
- To me, that means you're just gonna package it up
and send it away.
Ship your ass out of here.
- Ship on out! Get out of town.
Can't stand you anymore.
- "Ship" means to send it to someone.
I'll ship you my love.
- (host) "Ship" is a term to show you endorse a relationship
or a potential relationship. - Good gravy!
Where'd that come from?
- I don't see how that fits at all.
To ship something is to send it away.
- Oh, "I ship this relationship"?
- So why don't you say "relationship?"
It's too long?
- Yeah, be cool. Yeah, man, ship. Yeah.
I don't like it.
- (host) Is there anyone that you ship?
- My daughter and her husband.
They ship.
- I wanna ship this handsome hunk of a man to this sexy girl.
- I liked Beyoncé and her husband
until I heard about the girl with the good hair.
- Beyoncé?
- (host) Wait, so who do you ship Beyoncé with?
- ME!
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- (host) Do you know this one? - Whoa! [Bleep]boy. (laughing)
I don't know it. I'd like to know it though.
- Y'all need to get a book for us elders, man.
- I've heard [bleep] off.
- I know "[bleep]" and I know "boy."
But do I know [bleep]boy, what it means together? No.
- That's got a connotation, certainly in the gay community.
It means somebody you want to have sex with.
- That's just a guy that you're gonna jump all over
because he's fun, but you don't want to ship with him.
- (host) Okay, so a [bleep]boy is a insult to a guy
who has lame or basic tendencies.
Typically, guys who give off a douchebag mystique
while in pursuit of every girl get labeled [bleep]boys.
- Really? Good term.
- I see. He's just a slob for anything with a skirt on.
- So it's a player.
It's like call boys. (giggling)
- You mean Don Juans?
A Don Juan is somebody who goes after every woman.
- In my day, we called them a Romeo, or, back in the '50s, a Tony Curtis.
(whoosh)
(ding)
- When I was your age, you know, we used to like to use these kind of words,
but, as you get older, you realize they're so stupid.
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- (host) Do you know it? - "Sus?"
"Soose?"
- "Soose." "Sis." "Sus."
- They're getting weirder and weirder. "Sus?"
- It can't be SOS.
- Maybe "it's us"?
- All I can think of is Seussical.
- Keep quiet, maybe? I don't know.
It's not like "shoosh."
- To know about something or learn the truth about something.
- "Sus." That person is suspect.
- Well, that could be a suspicion or suspected or a suspect.
- (host) "Sus" is a word used to describe someone
or something as suspicious.
It can be used to express the belief that someone is hiding something.
- Oh, yeah, you gotta watch that guy.
He's sus.
- We're back to lazy language.
People don't want to use a whole word anymore.
- "Suspect" would have been just as easy to say
and I would have realized what the hell you were talking about.
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- (host) Your last one. Do you know it?
(cracking up)
"Becky!" That's my niece!
- I know a Becky.
- Is that Becky with the good hair?
- It could be a girl's name, or maybe even a boy's name.
- I've known a couple of Beckys over the years.
- I wouldn't know why you would be called a Becky.
- A woman who's very vain?
I know a lot of Victorian novels-- or Vanity Fair, there's a Becky.
- Down-to-earth, so boring.
Well, the last Becky I knew wasn't boring! (cackling)
- (host) "Becky" can refer to the act of fellatio.
(chuckling)
- That's the other Becky I know.
- (host) It also means a woman who is bland and generally white,
who may be familiar with sexual acts. - Oh!
Where does that come from?
- Does she have to be white?
I'm very familiar with sexual acts!
- I don't think I'm really liking that one.
I know some Rebeccas. I don't think they would like it!
- I play Majhong with one of them.
(giggling) I hope she's not watching this.
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- How many slang words do you know?
Let us know in the comments.
- Love y'all. Bye.
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