Present-day slang
If you are giving someone side-eye, what are you doing?
(1) flirting with them
(2) checking out their valuables
(3) looking at them scornfully
(4) sneaking a peak at them
(3) looking at them scornfully
Side-eye has been in the public eye plenty since it gained popularity around 2010, but it’s been sighted before: James Joyce used the phrase in his 1922 novel Ulysses, and was even mentioned once in 1797.
A term originating from the game Among Us, sus is short for what?
suspicious
In Among Us, a group of players work cooperatively to run a spaceship, except one player is secretly selected to sabotage their efforts and covertly kill the others. Accusations of acting sus are hurled frequently
What does "slay" mean (in slang)?
Do something spectacularly well, especially when it comes to fashion, artistic performance, or self-confidence.
Slay is an old word with Germanic roots that’s found in early Old English, but it was generally reserved for killing mythical beasts and vanquishing enemies on the battlefield.
Fast forward to the 1920s, to slay someone in the Roaring Twenties meant “to make someone laugh very hard,” commonly expressed as You slay me!
In the 1970–80s, in black and Latin communities slaying definitely came to refer to when an outfit, hair, makeup, dance moves, and attitude were all flawless. It’s a metaphor: One is “killing it” with their stunning self and style.
Slay spread in the intersectional worlds of gay culture, fashion, and the drag scene. When RuPaul’s Drag Race brought drag culture into millions of living rooms starting in 2009, slay got a massive boost.
In 2016, Beyoncé took slay mainstream. She commanded her ladies to get in formation and slay. The ladies of the world answered with another term originated by queer ball culture: Yas, queen! Slay!
Which of the following words is a slang contraction of a verb form?
(1) scrummy
(2) innit
(3) oojah
(2) innit
short form of isn't it. Used at the end of a statement for emphasis:
"It's wrong, innit?"
"They're such a wicked band, innit."
Which of these animals is slang for pretending to be a different person online?
(1) butterfly
(2) chameleon
(3) catfish
(3) catfish
someone who pretends on social media to be someone different, in order to trick or attract other people:
Online scammers and catfish usually have broad profile interests so that they can appeal to as many people as possible.
What does "drip" mean?
(1) a problem with the plumbing
(2) an annoying crybaby
(3) a stylish outfit
(3) a stylish outfit
If you have the "drip", it means you have swagger, especially in how you look. You’re hot. You’re cool. You’re on point. You’ve got the sauce.
Drip appears to be a metaphor: You’re dripping with money, designer clothes, or confidence. Or as Bruno Mars sang on his January 2018 “Finesse (Remix)” with Cardi B: “We out here drippin’ in finesse /
It don’t make no sense.”
Its origin is disputed, including among rappers. The hip-hop blog HipHopDX claims that the word originates in the 2000s Atlanta rap scene while a 2018 Urban Dictionary entry argues it comes from early 2010s Jersey City, New Jersey slang.
Since the 1840s, which of these have been known as ankle biters?
(1) socks
(2) children
(3) snakes
(2) children
Keeping your house pristine for potential buyers is not easy when you have two ankle-biters.
The last thing I need is another ankle biter running around.
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/ankle-biter?q=ankle+biters
A British slang word for “fellow, buddy” is …
(1) ace
(2) dog
(3) bruv
(3) bruv
So he's a bit of an idiot, but he's still my bruv, ain't he?
Which of these flavorful words is synonymous with “angry” and “bitter”?
(1) spicy
(2) salty
(3) sugary
(4) savory
(2) salty
annoyed or upset, especially when this is unreasonable:
I don't know why she's acting salty.
He got salty with me because I wouldn't go out with him.
If something “slaps,” it is …
(1) surprising or scary
(2) beautiful or handsome
(3) excellent or amazing
(3) excellent or amazing
Slap is slang verb meaning “to be excellent or amazing.” It’s especially used to refer to a song someone finds extremely good, as in This song slaps! When a track makes you want to get up and move, it slaps.
While especially used of music, slaps is sometimes extended to anything considered excellent or amazing, e.g., This pasta slaps, The new season of the show slaps.
What does "taking an L" mean?
In social media slang, "L" is often used as an abbreviation for "loss" and is used to describe a situation in which someone or something has experienced a defeat, failure, or setback.
When someone says they "took an L" or refers to a situation as an "L," it means that they did not succeed or achieve their desired outcome.
For example, if someone posts, "Took an L on that job interview," they are expressing that they did not succeed in the interview and did not get the job.
What does "peng" mean? For example, "This girl is well peng".
(1) delightful
(2) attractive
(3) boring
(4) uncool
(2) attractive
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/peng
Which of the following means “I’ve got the point”?
(1) no cap
(2) say less
(3) low-key
(4) bet
(2) say less
What Does “It’s Giving” Mean?
https://www.wikihow.com/It%27s-Giving-Meaning
Which of these is a mildly mocking term for being concerned about wealth and respectability?
(1) cheugy
(2) bougie
(3) finesse
(2) bougie
Taken from a French term for “middle class”, bougie (pronounced bü-ˌzhē) is a shortening of bourgeois.
Which of the following words means “delighted, pleased, satisfied”?
(1) barmy
(2) chuffed
(3) knackered
(4) toshed
(2) chuffed
He was really chuffed with his present.
What does "TFW" stand for?
TFW or tfw is an abbreviation on social media and the internet that usually means "that feel when," "that feeling when," or "that face when."
It has been speculated that the abbreviation TFW developed from the earlier meme "I Know That Feel Bro," which originally depicted simply drawn characters hugging each other in empathy.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/what-does-tfw-mean-that-feeling-when
What does "sending me" mean?
(1) When someone DMs you a hilarious meme
(2) When something is so hilarious, it makes you want to scream-laugh
(3) When someone or something makes you extremely furious
(2) When something is so hilarious, it makes you want to scream-laugh
When someone "sends you", it basically makes you laugh and/or cackle really hard!
https://www.buzzfeed.com/shivaniagrawal/gen-z-slang-meaning-quiz
What does "camp" mean?
(1) stay up all night in anticipation of something
(2) appealing because of its bad taste and ironic value
(3) a boring person without a strong character
(2) appealing because of its bad taste and ironic value
In other words, something so bad that it became good, like Crocs
Camp art is related to and often confused with kitsch and things with camp appeal may be described as cheesy. In 1909, Oxford English Dictionary defined camp as "ostentatious, exaggerated, affected, theatrical; effeminate or homosexual"[3] behavior, and by the middle of the 1970s, camp was defined by the college edition of Webster's New World Dictionary as "banality, mediocrity, artifice, [and] ostentation ... so extreme as to amuse or have a perversely sophisticated appeal".[4] The American writer Susan Sontag's essay Notes on "Camp" (1964) emphasized its key elements as: "artifice, frivolity, naïve middle-class pretentiousness, and shocking excess".
Which word below means "food or a meal"?
(1) tosh
(2) nosh
(3) quid
(4) squid
(2) nosh
They serve good nosh in the cafeteria.