But in it got blocked from Snapchat for being a security risk since it required users to provide their Snap username and password. Mindie missed its opportunity to become Musical. Mindie eventually got acquired by Justin Bieber-backed selfie app and content production collective Shots in A person over 40 should neither accuse someone of humble bragging nor identify themselves as a humble bragger.
Fake humility is for the young and insecure. When you've been insulted and you respond with a brutal comeback, you've just clapped back. And congratulations, by the way. But when somebody over 40 says clap back , it's just assumed they're talking about applause.
As in, "You're applauding for me? Well then, I'll just have to clap back at you with more applause. We all know what this slang means by now.
It's a way of ending a conversation by putting a barrier between you and the offending party. There was a time when telling someone to " talk to the hand " was considered saucy and unpredictable, but that time has long since passed—for everyone, really, but for mature adults especially. If the word savage automatically makes you think of lions on an African safari, then you definitely shouldn't be using it as an informal slang.
Today, the word has more to do with attitude and careless bravado than the ability to devour a human with one mighty chomp. It's "yes" but with extra emphasis. You don't just agree—you reeeeeeeeally agree. But if you're over 40, it's best to say no to yaaaaaas. You're just going to look like somebody's grandpa impersonating the "wassuuuuuup" guys from those old Budweiser commercials.
When somebody is like family but they're not technically related to you, they're your fam. But after 40, calling any tight circle of friends your fam is like calling a peer your BFF. At that point, you might as well also exchange friendship bracelets and sign each other's yearbooks. Bruh is not a friendly greeting but rather an expression of surprise.
It's an alternate way of saying "Seriously? Now that you're out of college and have been for quite a few decades , it's high time you stop using any variation on the word bro , especially with extra inflections that make it sound like you're saying "bra. They think you're talking about underwear. C'mon, you can admit it. You think this word refers to the villain in a superhero movie. But actually, when people under 40 use baddie , they're talking about a member of their social circle with a less-than-stellar reputation—someone who doesn't play by the rules, but you still kind of respect them anyway.
See, this is exactly why some slang terms should be off-limits to you. When something is accomplished in a particularly slick way, it's done so with finesse.
You can finesse something or even be finessed. I totally got finessed! This slang speak was allegedly inspired by Southern women who gossip over cups of tea. If you're spilling tea , it means you're sharing some especially juicy gossip.
But if you're over 40, most people are going to assume that you're being literal. They'll think you actually did spill some tea, and rather than lean in close to hear what gossip you have to share, they'll bring you a towel to clean it up. Obviously this slang phrase isn't literal. When someone says " I'm dead ," the implication is that whatever has just been said is so funny or true that it's figuratively sent them to an early grave.
However, joking about your own premature death is only charming if you're years away from leaving this mortal coil. When somebody over 40 makes such a proclamation, it tends to be a little more worrying. Don't make your friends ask if you were kidding or if you've just received some alarming medical news. Now, you might argue that it's perfectly acceptable to say this slang phrase as it came from a time period the '90s in which many people now over 40 were coming of age.
What's more, you might remind us that Ice Cube is now 49—so if he can say it, why can't you? Well, the thing is, Ice Cube was just 26 when he first said, " Bye, Felicia.
Most of us in our 40s and older have a very different definition for the word dank than kids today do. For us, if something is dank, that means it's cold and humid, like a musty basement during the winter.
But being called dank today, especially by a younger person, is apparently a good thing. It means you're especially cool or enviable.
Nowadays, you want to be dank, as strange that sounds. The rule of thumb is that if you can't say dank without imagining the word moist —which, quite frankly, is enough to make anyone shudder—then it's best to just avoid it entirely. When a year-old says " I can't even ," we all know that they're just losing patience and struggling to deal. When someone over 40 says it, well, it's probably because they threw out their back again.
If you're over 40, everything you do is technically adulting. And if adult behavior is rare enough in your life that it needs to be identified as such, then you've got bigger problems than being too enthusiastic about millennial slang. Sometimes abbreviations are useful. They take a long sentence and shorten it into something that's not such a mouthful. But OMG —short for "oh my goodness" or "oh my God"—doesn't so much save you time and consonants as it does make you sound like you're a pre-teen who just learned they're getting a puppy for Christmas.
This slang term is actually kind of hilarious. It's a weird way of saying that the truth has been exposed, stemming from the shock that people experience when a wig is snatched off one's head without permission. But just because this slang makes us smile doesn't mean it's something that's appropriate for anyone over 40 to use.
Announce to a room of your peers that there's been a wig snatched and it's entirely possible they'll think you are referring to an actual stolen hairpiece.
As in, "There's been a rash of toupee robberies in the area?! When you want to call someone bourgeois but want to do it in a way that sounds like you've just confused them with a Teletubbies character, you call them boujee— which can also be spelled "bougie. This isn't the kind of thirst that can be satiated with water or other liquids.
This is a thirst for approval from strangers, from friends—from anyone, really. What is teenagehood if not the adventurous, often foolhardy, desire to test the limits of acceptable behavior—because hey, why not?
One wry elaboration, credited to the comedian Joe E. But as the term has circulated over the past several months, a YOLO backlash has set in.
Jason Salcedo, a high school senior from Stuart, Fla. Moobs earns its listing as a slang term for a man's prominent breasts, and YOLO is an acronym for "you only live once". New words and phrases are usually added to the dictionary once editors have enough evidence to demonstrate continued historical use.
Other entries focus on the centenary of Roald Dahl's birth, with additions such as Oompa Loompa and witching hour.
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