Slang you dislike

Do bops slap?

"bops" is another stupid slang term. What's old is new!

Slang I don’t understand.

Werk mama

If someone says something is "a fail" in 2022. In general, substituting the noun for the verb and using the latter nominally instead often seems odd and slightly dated to me. A few years ago it seemed progressive and American to do that to some words where it's not already the case anyway.

“Drops” or “dropped,” as in released.

“New episodes drop this Monday.”

I heard a British radio personality use it the other day on LBC and sounded even worse than if an American said it.

“Adulting” or ‘how to “adult.”’

True dat.

Cis

KING

So.... yeah....

Like a boss

Anything from the Redditor/Imgurian dialect: "adulting" / "doing sexy time" / "so I did a thing..." / "fuckwaffles" etc.

"Your regular reminder..."

When marketing brands use ‘X’ instead of ‘&’ (why? Just why? I guess it’s not technically slang, but a recent development that irks me)

“I got this” “you got this” “you own this”

“Adulting”

“Queer”

“That is FIRE”

Oh, god, I hate "That is FIRE" too. It's even in insurance commercials now.

And there's a Chik-fil-A commercial where the voiceover is talking about how great some salad is and she says it "slaps". It's so jarring in commercials especially.

Ugh, I loathe “I did a thing,” and “So, this happened.”

“Girlboss” is also pretty bad.

I used to work for a kind of cute guy who would always refer to addressing a challenge as “putting on my big boy pants.” Ugh. What a dick wilter.

Omg that is soo idiotic

That is FIRE

“Deadass.” It sounds forced, and slang should flow.

My ass is home to your face

YAASSS

[...]

“Adulting.”

The most millennial term EVER.

"My dude" puts my teeth on edge

"dollface" anything

kiddos

“Salty.”

But it use it a lot.

"Snack," as in "Skylar Astin is a snack!"

"I hear ya"

Kiddo and doggo are terrible.

“High level view” - more inane corporatespeak.

R29 I hate “I hear ya” too … of course you heard me you idiot, I’m standing right next to you!

R31....but did you LISTEN to me?

I dislike all slang, however, I still use some here and there.

Queer, at least how it's used today. I'd prefer homosexual over queer. But gay is best.

The worst one of all is:

“Facts” and/or “That’s facts”

Omg the cringe-o-meter goes absolutely through the roof on this one. I hate it. It ought to be a misdemeanor to use that phrase.

“Privilege” and “these are my pronouns.”

I’d be glad to never hear about either ever again.

Not a trending one (I hate “trending” too) but I’ve never liked “brown nosing” since it references sticking your nose into someone’s anus and getting feces on it. Disgusting.

“All the feels” and “I’m here for it.”

When little boys say the music slaps I get all tingly

Don't know if it's slang, but "GOAT"

Not necessarily slang, but:

"My preferred pronouns are..."

"Privilege"

"Gendered"

"My Bad"...what are you? A two or three year old?

I’m gonna raw dog you!

Lewk

“Is bae”

"king"/"queen"

"on point"

"sick"

Also hate “sorry not sorry.”

When people start a sentence with "Heck, ..."

Ok, grandpa goodie two shoes. *eyeroll*

“Realness” has got to go

Will Smith slaps

"No fucks to give" and "Zero fucks given"

Just fucking die, would you please?

I cannot convey in words how much I loathe that, r49. It’s what passes for witty wordplay in the millennial-sphere.

"Boner"

Elderly queens using expressions like “bruh”.

“That’s so cringe”

R51 is responding from 1973

"Gurl" makes me want to hurl.

We shouldn't accept ignorant, brainless slang.

Witty slang (à la Wodehouse) is acceptable.

My new pillow has tons of feathers in it.

Burbs instead of Birds

Scritches instead of Scratches.

R54- I like BONER as in I have a RAGING BONER.

Beat me, Daddy, eight to the bar.

If I had a nickel.

"Tons" idiocy from a recent DL thread:

The CW Bloodbath

Holy shit. Tons of shows getting canceled on The CW.

People shouldn't be allowed to start creating new slang if parsing sentences became impossible.

I agree, R57, 'tons' of feathers is stupid.

Shits and giggles. What does it even mean?

R63 is based on amateur women tennis players who "hit and giggle"

Saying something is "a mood." How about making the effort to type the actual emotion you're experiencing, so we don't have to guess whether you're in a good mood or bad mood?

Substituting "around" for the correct preposition. This is very common among tryhard NPR bullshit types. Someone will say "issues around trannies" instead of "issues concerning trannies."

I also hate when people begin sentences with "So."

[quote] How about making the effort to type the actual emotion

It's pointless trying to reason with Millennials. They care for Feelings but ignore Facts.

[quote]When people start a sentence with "Heck, ..." Ok, grandpa goodie two shoes. *eyeroll*

I feel this way about "Sheesh," "Jeeze," and people (usually fraus) who start a comment with "Um..." I usually only see these on DL, fortunately.

[quote]It's pointless trying to reason with Millennials. They care for Feelings but ignore Facts.

Then they should be capable of naming those feelings, instead of lazily posting twaddle like "This comment section is a mood."

[quote] Then they should be capable

Millennials don't know about 'shoulds'. They eschew responsibility/

[quote] Sheesh," "Jeeze,"

Corruptions of the word 'Jesus'.

He/she/it "makes me feel some kind of a way."

I don't care what they're a "corruption of," r71. I hate the saccharine "Aw, shucks!" corniness they evoke.

If the "Golly, gee" types can't converse like modern adults on a website that hosts threads full of dick pics, then maybe they need to take their wholesome asses back to frau-friendly Facebook.

[quote]He/she/it "makes me feel some kind of a way."

This is such a mood, r72.

Grown ass

'Grown ass' and 'big ass' can't be parsed in a sentence.

Suck my big, grown ass!

Khloe Kardashian claps back at haters.

What do mean by "grown ass", R77?

Have you passed puberty? Will your anus and buttocks grow larger later?

Mow and blow

I heard nostrils and ears continue to grow as you age.

r79, your buttocks will certainly grow larger if you gain weight, and your anus will most certainly get bigger if you are constantly getting bottomed/dicked by huge cocks and/or butt plugs lol

“My bad.” 🤮

^^ and/or USING huge butt plugs

[quote] I heard nostrils and ears continue to grow as you age

Sir David Lean had ears which grew as large as elephant's.

No one has yet mentioned my most hated: problematic.

R80, what's wrong with mow and blow? A versatile term that can describe many things. ;)

Sorry, I meant when someone says "she's a grown ass woman". You mean she's an adult? I know it's for emphasis but it irks me.

[quote] "she's a grown ass woman".

That woman is an adult and her life, her soul is contained within her anus.

Her anus is her essential being.

A waitress walks up to three women in a booth at a restaurant and greets the three women by saying-

Hi GUYS , how are we doing this evening.

Women aren't GUYS they're women.

Basic, pressed, extra. Retardese slang for English words with more syllables to them.

Facts.

Goals.

And the #'s and @'s adjacent to them.

Stop it, please all just stop that.

Starting a sentence with so.... takes the life out of the transaction from the get go

^ It always sounds like they are unsure of themselves and trying to gain time to work out what they are trying to express, or that they are condescending smug shits.

This young FAT FRAU on youtube likes to stuff her face on camera and right before she about to eat large plate of Lasagna she always says-

I'm PUMPED

Wow, a lot of you don’t know what slang means.

Fam-bam, instead family

I much prefer "buttloads" to "tons."

[quote]Women aren't GUYS they're women.

What if they're trannies?

“I can’t even…” “You got this”. “My bad.” Using the word “drop” (ie, an album or song) instead of “release”.

Tons of the examples above remind why people just fucking annoy me.

Worst by a mile is “CIS” though.

Yes, “this is a mood” is an obnoxious phrase. Equally inane is “this is a vibe,” which inarticulate people use for everything and yet means nothing because it’s ambiguous.

I don’t care to be called “dude” by strangers. I really dislike being called “bro,” even by guys I know. We’re acquaintances and I’m not your brother.

I use slang like y'all to be relatable with doltface youse. IRL i try not to use any, even idiomatic expressions.

I can't EVEN with this thread, my dudes. The title should be "Phrases old people hate because it reminds them they're old AF."

FACTS with zero fucks given

R93 I can’t listen to WNYC anymore because both the hosts and guest do this constantly.

R103 Go off, king! Speak your truth to power!

R103 gives me LYFE

"Tons of the examples above remind why people just fucking annoy me."

And this idiot at r99 weighs in.

Facetiousness?

AF or "as fuck." Never heard this until a couple years ago Everyone says it nowadays, it seems.

He's hot AF, or hot as fuck.

Any variation of:

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes

or

Fuck around and find out

Both have been extremely overused and driven into the ground. When someone uses one of them I want to fling myself at them and rip their throat out with my teeth.

R107 I meant people that use such expressions annoy me, not the people posting them in this thread.

Not really slang but I can't stand grown men who use emojis all the time, even women using it bug me too, but men should just stop.

Calling an ass a "peach."

r111 I think some use is alright but the guys that load up their tweets or texts with them for every post, need to learn how to communicate better.

I never know what emojis mean, so they don't bother me that much.

I agree with r113 and r111, though. Learn to write.

Good on you.

It's "good for you," motherfuckers.

"He's not wrong".

JUST SAY YOU AGREE, YOU PASSIVE CUNT

"The [X] singer". For example Justin Bieber is "The Baby singer".

t115 "good on you" is an Aussie expression. Frequently paired with "mate."

And I will keep using it, so suck my big, broken toe.

I really don't think they use emojis because they can't communicate, they think it's cute and funny when it's juvenile and silly.

Nothing wrong with saying a song slaps you fkin dinosaur. Get off your prehistoric high horse. Do you speak like a Victorian scholar. Aite then.

I said what I said.

Saying a song "slaps" isn't too bad. It's kind of taking a music/studio term and making it a verb. Almost like saying a song grooves.

"Bop" is the weird one. "Bop" is a subgenre of Jazz. But today it's "any song that sounds good". Not sure when or where that happened.

[quote]a song slaps

That really is a stupid thing to say. I hadn't heard it before this thread. It "slaps." I laugh at you for saying that. That's what slaps.

Freaking, as in: "This ice cream cone is so freaking good!"

freaking=fucking for people that aren't comfortable with using fuck as an adjective.

r120 I should hope not, the Victorians were filthy!

r124 that is a soccer mom saying, they don't want to say "fucking"

A similar frauism, r127, was "shut the front door," said most frequently to me by a gayfrau friend.

Eugh, that would drive me nuts.

Awesome awesome awesome awesome awesome awesome awesome awesome awesome awesome awesome awesome. Totally.

[quote] "shut the front door,"

Went out for drinks with coworkers, one of whom said "shut the front door" all the time.

Another coworker heard it (STFD) and said: "I'm gonna start using that."

I said, "Please don't."

The STFD coworker stared at me and shot daggers.

She was probably thinking, "IT IS WHAT IT IS! I SAID WHAT I SAID!"

Was either of the STFD'ers male, r131?

[quote]R64: [R63] is based on amateur women tennis players who "hit and giggle"

Unlikely, R64.

The etymological progression might have gone something like:

𝐤𝐢𝐜𝐤 ("surge of pleasure," see the lyrics to 𝐼 𝐺𝑒𝑡 𝑎 𝐾𝑖𝑐𝑘 𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑌𝑜𝑢)

𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐤𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐬 ("just for fun/pleasure"), which seems to have taken off after WWII (1950s, Beat-era, cf. "kicky").

𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐬 seems to be an alliterative vulgarization of for kicks that took off in the 1970s

𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐠𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐬 seemed to follow in the 1980s and 1990s

𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐠𝐢𝐠𝐠𝐥𝐞𝐬 seemed to appear a bit later (late 1990s), probably taking off in popularity due to the film Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997).

(from Quora)

R130, a variant would be 𝑎𝑤𝑒𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑠𝑎𝑢𝑐𝑒.

Earlier today I saw a fast food commercial where the spokesman said, "Fire!", per R18.

This is NOT SLANG ... it's one of those odd semi formalized meme-ish speech tropes that people now use online: "I think about (x) all the time."

It SEEMS totally normally and innocuous ...but there's something very conscious and narcissistic in the way it's being deployed. I dunno, there's something about it, it's very mannered and it's odd.

Coolbeans and awesomesauce.

I cringe every time I hear a 16-year-old say someone's new jam is the "cat's meow."

[quote] new jam

The proper term for that is "bop".

"That's my jam"

Anyone who comments anywhere with the ultimately lazy, sub-being, follower comment of:

This!

R141, This!

R140 I just said that when Blanche tried to steal my jelly!

I don’t like cuck, alpha/beta, incel, & normie. They’re right-wing terms.

I don’t get Aspie, it sounds derogatory yet so many self-identify as that.

Not sure if it still is, but when I was in college (bout 15 years ago), straights were using the word “Gay” as slang for something that’s really shit or awful. “That’s gay”. I made me fucking angry, I even sometimes heard friends use it on front of me, knowing I was gay.

I'm 29 and refuse to use any of these words and phrases and I've been told that I talk like someone out of a B&W movie.

Tell me you’re (x) without saying you’re (x).

r147 that shit is all over Facebook.

not exactly slang but the sanctimonious "Do better."

Happy (jnsert holiday) "to those who celebrate." Do we really need to qualify a harmless pleasantry?

R115: ‘Good on you’ is a Britishism, used primarily by Brits and Aussies

Oops I just saw r118

Not slang but words so overused and misused they've lost all meaning:

toxic

gaslight

problematic

When I hear "problematic" now I just assume the person is discussing microaggressions or something equally ridiculous. It's a shame because there are actually good uses for that word

“Junk” used to refer to male genitalia.

"LOL" in any DL thread.

And if there are emojis in a post I want the perpetrator's fingers shortened by two joints each,

I say tons of these words.

That's how we roll.

It's okay, R157.

When you're as fat as you are the tons of words don't look nearly as enormous as they would with a normal-sized obese person.

^^ Big ol' try-hard.

Men who say "cuck" and "alpha" have micropenii.

Sorry dl people I don't like the phrase- Me and this hot guy HOOKED UP

Just say you FUCKED.

Worse than hooked up and a phrase that women have been using since the 1970's is- I WENT TO BED WITH HIM or I SLEPT WITH HIM.

This hot guy and I...

"Got your/my/his back"

Evidently the phrase originated in WWII, but I never heard it until the past decade (Google trends shows it spiked wildly in late 2010/early 2011 then dropped very significantly but has stuck around since.

It always calls to mind low rent family feuds and street squabbles between one group and another.

No less irritating, it's become a measuring stick for those always the victim losers in the friendship scale, the ones on DL who complain that they give and give and give, but where are their friends when Mother's bunions need rubbing and you are on a once in a decade Mississippi casino weekend escape?

I think a large portion of the dislike is generational

On DL it certainly is.

R29 = Catherine Zeta Jones

[quote]Saying a song "slaps" isn't too bad.

Yes, it is.

What is a bop? MMMbop or Hale Bopp?

R168, Why?

Tits up. Hilarious and cringy.

Anything ever coined by Diablo Cody, like "Honest to blog?" in Juno

OLD slang can be charming such as- Back in 1940 I was the CATS PAJAMAS

I hate when people use “I’ve got this” for basic shit. Like, can you get a gallon of milk for me at the store? “I’ve got this!”

I hate it when I hear some old two-bot whore say "be best."

“Shit the bed!” When I first heard this I thought, “gross!”

“Cringy”, R171?

Any more slang you people pretend to be offended by for the sake of this thread?

Instead of saying- I HATE him

I'm hating ON him- what purpose does it serve to insert that black slang word ON

Terf

"In my feels"

"On" is a Black slang word?

Why do we "change things up" instead of just "change things"? And what if things don't change the way we'd hoped? Shouldn't that be expressed as "change things down"?

I never liked when people would say- Look it

“Shade” and “claps back” have got to be the worst. Followed by “the tea.”

you do you

LinkedIn-speak: "I don't know who needs to hear this.." and "Louder for those in the back"

“Shade” and “the tea” are now so firmly rooted in gay culture that I can’t imagine gay guys not using this slang.

[quote] Instead of saying- I HATE him

I'm hating ON him- what purpose does it serve to insert that black slang word ON

These aren’t the same thing. If you say you hate him, that means you hate him all the time. You are in a constant state of hatred toward this person. If you’re hating on him that means you’re taking some shit about this guy but you don’t necessarily hate him.

You can playfully say “hating on” too. “Why you hating on my music?” “I wouldn’t be hating on it if it were any good.”

"Cringe" used as an adjective.

Ooof, yikes! You did a racism. You did an imperialism. You did a nationalism. You did a xenophobia. You did a white fragility. You did a weak apology. You did a no growth. This makes it abundantly clear you don't even understand the intersectional nature of the multiplicity of your offenses.

"Shade" and "tea" are very worn out and overused slang from drag queens/popularized by Drag Race, and like all the slang from that show, is overused to the point that to hear the slang now causes some physical pain.

They were cute and funny a decade ago, now it's just twinks and circuit queens and perpetually online Millennials who use it. And of course Drag Race and drag queens still, because God forbid they ever come up with anything original.

"Fetch."

Just, enough already. Give it up.

Raw dog

R193, I’ve never heard that one. What does it mean?

Raw dog=bareback (for the straights)

Thank you, R195.

"Cunt," when it's used in a degrading manner, like "Sis, your new baby daughter looks like a little cunt."

R197 then you must cringe whenever you read many of the posts on The DL.

“Reads for filth.” Makes no sense.

Okurrrr

"Tits up"

“Up the duff”. I alwyas think it means the homosex but it means pregnancy.

R202 what's that from?

Just rankles when adult men in particular use "so" as a qualifier for "not", or for a verb.

As in "I am so not going there with you." or "You are so paying for this meal."

Worst perpetrator, the noisome Kai Ryssdal of Marketplace.

"Put on your big boy pants"

Where did this bit of lingustic retardation come from in the first place?

Corporate workshop speak from the 1990s, r205

R203 it’s a British expression.

[quote]that face looks like a dropped pie

Every time I read this, I reflect on the fact that our stupidest poster has joined the thread.

"He was definitely quite a snack."

R208 is that the G*P Play**** troll?

I don't know, r210. He posted this in the current NPH thread:

[quote]Nice body for his age but that face looks like a dropped pie. Talk about a dick wilter.

Is G*P Play**** troll noted for his Doogie hatred?

There’s a poster who refers to Logan Paul as “that dropped pie-faced loser”.

"We need to be sharper at packaging trading strategies across assets classes."

"She favors those elements compatible with the modern grammar of female agency."

Anyone over 30 referring to anyone attractive as a “snack”

R215 I had to unfollow him. If the constant updates about his crotch droppings weren't annoying enough, I didn't need to hear every utterance from Trump's mouth or every post.

R217, why did you follow him in the first place? Why would you want to hear Trump shit?

I get a lot of my best reading done when I'm SITTING ON THE THRONE

I actually use that expression myself so I don't actually hate it

R218 he used to post more news and other stuff. He's not a right winger.

It's spelled "snacc."

Not "snack."

BURB instead of bird is becoming fashionable

Anyone who types "vicious face slapping" automatically loses 50 IQ points.

"Shits and giggles". It is so uncouth, stupid and juvenile.

I can't stand when people say HEY instead of Hi

Deep Dive

I see this EVERYWHERE now and it bugs the fuck out of me.

“Imma”

Every since Kanye gave his “Imma let you finish…” speech, every white person on the Internet trying to be cool says this.

“Aight Imma head out.”

Calling a cunt a vagina.

I HATE the v-word.

Colors "pop".

So does my cereal.

"High-margin, multi-asset plays."

"I just think we're due an enormous selloff. We're low key throwing ourselves in cold wars with all of our trading partners. China are the biggest global holder of US paper. If they start dumping, yields will soar past four percent. If you think the house is burning down, this is how you monetize it."

Receipts. Even worse with the mainstream media using it ("The January 6th Committee - They're Coming After Trump. And They Have The Receipts.")

"Weak sauce" is such weak sauce, I want to reach back into the internet and strangle whoever first typed it.

[quote] Why would you want to hear Trump shit?

R218 Men were employed in Washington to watch President Lyndon B Johnson defecate.

R232 my mother keeps hearing this newish slang term & takes it to mean literal paper store receipts. She gets confused when she hears it in its new context. “They have receipts for that?”

I lost this battle long ago but, "emails" and "an email"

"email" is already a plural noun. Just like "mail". "emails" is a verb.

Whenever I hear someone use this, regardless of who they are, I still think they sound like a moron.

Backing away slowly from R236.

At the food counter in a restaurant ordering food. Yes I want the fried chicken with a side of SLAW and a medium MAC AND CHEESE

It's COLESLAW and MACARONI and cheese.

STAN

“I stan X”

So stupid. You sound like a fuckwit.

"Wait, WHAT?!"

R238 I hate the word "slaw" it's so hick and also a nasty sound.

I could Google to find out where the name came from, but "coleslaw" is a gross word too.

Virtually all of the Drag Race slang. Red flag sign of a generic gay mentality.

"I mean..." before a statement. Yes, we know.

Nome-sayin?

My 94 year old nonna greets me with...what up dawg?

Sounds like it's time to put her down, r245.

R245- What is a NONNA?

A type of cabbage, Rose.

Raw dog - Matt carpenter doesn’t wear batting gloves, he raw dogs it.

Fire - that dress you’re wearing is fire.

That yellow skin guy

One reads certain threads and certain classics of the musical theater come to mind for some reason.

[quote] That yellow skin guy

[quote] That yellow skin guy

Who is that?

[quote] I hate the word "slaw" it's so hick

Yeah well at least they didn't try to order "coldslaw". Something I've heard more than once.

Derp

[quote] Me and this hot guy HOOKED UP - Just say you FUCKED.

Can I still use hooked-up if we made out and then I sucked him off?

I would imagine so, R256. I'm often surprised by the number of sexual encounters had by gay men where no anal sex is involved.

I've got "feels"