Using the play on words of the band Huey Lewis & the News, are you too hip to be square? If you walked into a teen conversation or read a text message, will you understand at least 75% of the verbiage? If so, kudos to you. You are officially crowned, “A Boss.” Meaning you’re on top of your knowledge game and have a youthful personality.
Otherwise, if you find yourself clueless when you hear or read teen chatter, you are not alone. The social media app ASKfm conducted a survey of the top 20 slang words teens use. Here are the results.
The top 20 terms in ASKfm’s Teen Slang Dictionary include:
1. PAP
Acronym meaning “post a picture”
2. Bad
Just like the olden days of parents’ yore, bad still means good but it has shifted slightly and means something even more positive like hot
3. Ship
Short for relationship
4. :3
A symbol meant to represent the cat face made by anime characters when they say something clever, sarcastic, or comment on something cute
5. IDEK
Acronym for “I don’t even know…”
6. IKR
Acronym meaning “I know, right?”
7. OOTD
Acronym for “outfit of the day;” commonly used to prompt someone to post a picture of their current outfit or to share your current outfit with friends/followers
8. SMH
Acronym for “shaking my head;” in reference to something distasteful
9. Dime
The highest rating on a scale of 1-10; used to share approval or express how good something is
10. THOT
Acronym meaning “that ho over there;” used to describe females with a promiscuous reputation
11. Netflix and chill
Code for hooking up or a “booty call”
12. Savage
Used to describe something that is hardcore or extreme, in a good way
13. AF
Acronym “as f***” used to express the severity of something (e.g. hot AF)
14. TBR
Acronym for “to be rude;” usually said before the person shares their true – and harsh – feelings
15. Peep
Can refer either to friends (your people), or to look at/listen to (e.g. peep this)
16. Slept
Can refer to hitting someone hard enough to knock them out, missing out on something awesome, or to be extremely high
17. GOAT
Acronym for “greatest of all time”
18. No chill
Used to describe someone who is being irrational
19. Likers get rate
A phrase that implies the original poster will rank anyone that likes/comments/answers a post, typically around how cool they are perceived to be or how they look; also used to incent followers to like posts to get something (usually indicated in the post) in return
20. Frog emoji + coffee cup emoji
Based off a popular meme of Kermit the Frog drinking a cup of tea, teens use this emoji combo to sarcastically imply “but that’s none of my business” or “I’m just saying”
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Source: ASKfm
