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80s Popular Slang
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Airhead
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Absent minded, silly or seemingly dumb person
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Awesome
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Incredibly cool
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Bodacious
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Woman with a beautiful body.
Use: “She’s got a bodacious body.”
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Bogus
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Bad situation.
Use: “I crashed. Bogus!”
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Choice
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Very good situation.
Use: “I got a raise. This is a choice job.”
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Couch Potato
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One who sits on the couch for hours and hours and does
nothing but watch T.V.
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Crack
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Different form of cocaine that plagued urban areas of the U.S.
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Dude
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A guy. Also used as a expletive.
Use: “Whats that dude doing?” or “Dude, how cool is
this?!”
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All the Way
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Sex. Penetration.
Use: “Go all the way with Stephanie K.”
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Excellent
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Very cool.
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For Sure
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I agree. Affirmative.
Use: (pronouced ‘fer sher’ “Awesome waves, fer sher,
Dude.”
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Fuckin’ A
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Expletive. Can also mean afirmative. Or what the hell is
going on if used properly.
Use: “Fuckin’ A, Dude.. What are you doing!?” “Are you
going to the club, Brad?”
Brad: “Fuckin’ A!”
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Gag me with a spoon
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Gross. That is offensive.
Use: “Go out with a nerd?! Like, gag me with a spoon.”
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Goonie Goo-Goo
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?
Use: “Goonie Goo-Goo!”
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gnarly
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Very cool. Can also be used as something rough or
grotestly cool liking like rat vomiting fire.
Use: “That’s a gnarly B&W, Brad.” Or “That shark
ripped apart that other shark! Gnarly!”
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hacker
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A computer genius. (See War Games)
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Heinous
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Something bad or slightly evil.
Use: “What a Heinous crime?”
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Nards
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Testicles.
Use: “…Wolfman’s got nards?” (See Monster Squad, 1987)
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New Wave
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Music that sucks. (see Flock of Seagulls.)
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Outrageous
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Something wild, exciting and cool all at once.
Use: “Dude, Jaws was a totally outrageous movie.”
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Psych
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Tricked you.
Use: “Brook Sheilds called and said she wanted to make
passionate love too you. Psych!”
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Radical
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Something wild, exciting and cool all at once.
Use: “Tony Hawk is totally radical on that skateboard!”
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Righteous
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Very good.
Use: “Righteous moves Tony.”
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Spaz
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Someone that is nerotic. Someone in a nervous panic or
extremily clumsy and very uncool.
Use: “Jack is a spaz.”
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Ta-Tas
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Breasts. Usually refers to large breasts on a bodacious
woman.
Use: “Look at though huge Ta-tas!”
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Totally
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Adjective for almost any expletive. Equivalent to very or
extremily.
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Way cool
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Very cool.
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Wild Thang
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Sex. (See Tone Loc Wild Thang.)
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Yes, Way
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Oppisite of “No, Way.”
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80s Hip Hop Slang
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B-Boy
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The original term for style dancers. Also used to refer
to pioneers of hip hop. (See Beastie Boys for more info.)
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Beat Box
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Big ass portable radio. (See L. L. Cool J’s song “Radio”)
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Def
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Very cool.
Use: “That beat box is def.”
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Dope
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More than cool.
Use: “ ‘Tougher than Leather’ is a dope album.”
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Drop Science
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Educate you.
Use: “KRS-1 be dropin’ science!”
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Faze
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Diminish. Bring someone down physically, mentally or
emotionally. Upset someone.
Use: “Sucka’s be try’in to Faze me.”
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Fly
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Beautiful. (made extremely popular by In Living Color’s
“fly girls”
Use: “That girls is fly.”
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Frankie Smith Slang
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This is a whole different type of slang created by Frankie
Smith on this song the “double dutch bus” in ’82 and made internationally
famous later by Snoop Dog.
Use: “Fo’Shizzle my nizzle.” Translation: “For Sure, my
nigga.”
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Fresh
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New and cool. Usually refering to the style of an person,
place or thing.
Use: “You car is fresh!”
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Homeboy
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Partner. Friend or some other guy.
Use: “Don’t step on my addidas, homeboy.”
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Homie
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Short for homeboy.
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Hype
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Message or propaganda. Can also refer to wild party.
Use: “Don’t believe the hype.” Or “This party is hype,
man.”
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Jack Move
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Act of forcefully taking something from someone. Can
include assault, theft, and robery. (See NWA’s “Express yourself” Straight
outta Compton.
Use: “..ain’t no tellin when I’m down for a jack move.”
Or “Those gangstaz are about to do a jack move.”
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Legit
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Good. (Made more popular by M.C. Hammer in the 90s, but
came from the 80s.)
Use: “This club is legit. It gets pretty hype at about
1am.”
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NewJack
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A rookie trying to prove himself on the streets. Can also
be a sucka. (See Ice-T and NWA.)
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Step Off
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Used to tell someone to stop annoying you or get out of
business or just back up.
Use: “I wish my teachers would just step off!”
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Sucka
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A punk. A newjack. A fool. An idiot. A looser.
Use: “You think I'ma sucka,
but I ain't the one.”
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Posse
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Group of people, friends or gang.
Use: “I was chillin’ with my posse.”
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Funky Fresh Gear
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Extremily cool clothes.
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Rap
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Urban poetry to a rhythm.
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Human Beat Box
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Art of urban vocal percussion; made famous
by pioneers like the fat Boys, Dougie Fresh, Biz Markie and others in the 80s.
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Stupid
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More than cool.
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Sucka MCs
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A punk, wimp, fake person attemping to rap and pretend too
be tough.
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Word to the Mother
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Truth to the Mother land, Africa. I agree 100%.
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Popin' & Lockin'
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dances with sudden stop start movments
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Chill
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Relax.
Use: “Just chill. You’ll get your money.”
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Ill
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Act like a fool. Can also refer to something slightly
crazy but still cool or even something sickening.
Use: “That fool be illin’” or “That concert was ill, I
liked it.” Or even “The dude throw up on stage and ate it, it was ill.”
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