Popular sayings/cool slang?
Posted by FloridaSalsa@reddit | GenX | View on Reddit | 26 comments
What is a saying that was popular amongst your social group when you were in grade school/middle school or equivalent? Do you still hear or is it mostly extinct?
Lopsided_Tomatillo27@reddit
“Up your butt and around the corner”
“Your mom”/“Your mom’s house”
“Face!” This was accompanied by making a claw shape with your hand and pantomiming ripping your own face off.
LawrenceSpiveyR@reddit
I vary my "face" with rapid up and down claw with a shout, or the claw moving in each cardinal direction in a slower deliberate motion.
umeboshiplumpaste@reddit
FACE!!! Ha!!!! But we had no hand movement. It was more of an intimidating head movement. Like, "In your face!"
GirlStiletto@reddit
My freshman year of college, (late 80s) we had a bunch of Long Islanders who used "wicked decent" to mean something was good.
aluke000@reddit
I thought "wicked" was more a Boston saying
FloridaSalsa@reddit (OP)
My friends from Boston would say this.
LawrenceSpiveyR@reddit
I still say all of these. Except for "cool beans"....I always hated that one for some reason.
alleghenysinger@reddit
Cool beans
FloridaSalsa@reddit (OP)
My favorite. I only hear it from a few people and they are older than I am so I wonder if it's from an earlier time. I also wonder if it's a regional thing. Midwest maybe?
Winter_Chickadee@reddit
Life sux then you die…..
I don’t know how we got so jaded by eighth grade.
FloridaSalsa@reddit (OP)
Unfortunately I still say that. Usually at an inappropriate time. It just slips out.
TakkataMSF@reddit
What time is it? - Half past a monkey's ass and a quarter to his balls.
Smooth move X-lax.
"X much?"
Like if someone trips: Walk much?
Can be used any time someone fails at something.
crone_Andre3000@reddit
Rad and bitchen'
dorkus315@reddit
Gimme 5…..SIKE!! or RAD
ancientastronaut2@reddit
It's psych, as in short for psyched out. 😁
1luckybrat@reddit
Siiiikkkkeee!!!!!
SacredC0w@reddit
I still use 'rad,' but sarcastically.
whirlydad@reddit
I've been saying "rad" recently. I'm not sure it's for sarcasm though.
umeboshiplumpaste@reddit
Elementary school:
"Going with" / "Go with" in elementary school = You liked someone, asked them to "go with" you, and then YOU WERE A COUPLE.
High school:
"Headrot" = what we were called if we were into punk/skateboarding/hanging out in the art room
"Betty" = girl who hung out with skaters/skated
ancientastronaut2@reddit
Also "going around" in grade school. I went around with two boys without ever having contact with them. My friends passed them a note, and they passed a note back to my friends saying yes. The extent of our relationships was one smile and one wave from across the playground. 😂
WildmouseX@reddit
When yelling at bad drivers " you drive like old people fuck, slow and sloppy"
Brocktoon73@reddit
“Mint”
“Dude, that bike is so mint!”
Quirky_Ball_3519@reddit
Does anyone remember people saying modid
One-Butterscotch-786@reddit
I grew around a lot of Mormons, so i heard "Frick!" or "Fricken A" a lot. Any substitute for the F word. The small town was close to the Navajo Reservation so "Skoden" was short for Let's Go then!
therocketn00b@reddit
Most of the common ones. But one which I think was unique was when I was in Boy Scouts. The phrase "penny oh" became a cool saying among the cooler older guys, and it meant "plenty of," as in "I'm gonna drink penny oh beer."
Satchel30062@reddit
All that and a bag of chips