Very intoxicated. Because apparently we needed a shortened version of turnt, which is the shortened version of turned up which can mean a number of different things. Turnt can be used to describe an event usually a party that I would not have been cool enough to attend in high school.
You can also spell out t'd with the tea emoji-apostrophe-d if you want to look super cool to the teens that follow you on Instagram. In a sentence: "This party tonight is gonna be so t'd," or "Let's get t'd tonight.
Cool, exciting or fun when describing an event. Really cool or nice in quality of a person or thing. Lit is truly a versatile word. Preux, Lit has been making its rounds, creeping into our vernacular for a while now.
Even though it's been co-opted by something hipsters, teens in Chicago still use it, but now ironically. Teens now sometimes use it to describe situations as lackluster, like their high school English class. To be out of one's right mind. To be acting unusually.
If somebody is tweaking, they're typically acting in a way that is bothersome to others. It can also mean to be messing up sometimes in class, but that's less likely , or being a nuisance to those around them. But to Jessica Bond, also 17, tweaking can be super annoying. In a sentence: "Shelly is tweaking, dude. She's getting on my nerves. To be acting over-the-top in an annoying way.
See also: Tweaking. If you tell somebody, "You're being so extra right now," they'd hopefully know to take it down a notch. Now you all know, too. Feeling an emotion somewhere between annoyed and upset.
As Thomas Atseff, 16, put it, "If someone breaks up with you and then goes and dates your best friend, you'd be salty about it. Salty is another term that's been around for a while but is still persisting in the teen vocabulary, albeit not as frequently. In a sentence: "Nah, I'm not salty. They can date whoever they want. While the teens I talked to were fairly clueless about the Nick Cannon classic show "Wild N Out," the term "wild" is undergoing a resurgence in cool teen language.
To not act on an opportunity. Rachel Metalin, a high school English teacher at Upper Canada College in Toronto, says these terms even make their way into class discussions with students. Last year, our teenage slang list included words and phrases like "epic fail," "photobomb" and "lipdub," which just goes to show that some things never change — they just get reused over and over again. Most of the words and phrases on our list are seen on social media sites, text messages and heard in high school hallways and popular song lyrics.
But Metalin says the way young people and adults are communicating could be taking a toll on their performance in the classroom. People begin writing the way they are speaking and everything becomes short-form," she tells The Huffington Post Canada. And this year wasn't just about the kids. The Atlantic's list of the worst words of include these two, and other awful culprits like "butt-chugging," "plus-one" and "retweets are not endorsements. But also brought about mainstream recognition for a few words, like "f-bomb," "sexting," "bucket list" and the Oprah-inspired "aha moment," which were all added to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary's list.
Now it's time to take a look at what this year has wrought. It's not meant to stereotype tweens and teens' vocabulary as one big list of these specific words, but rather, to share what could be the next "radical" or "hepcat.
LOOK: We asked Canadian teachers and teens to share what they hear the most, these are some of our favourite and most creative finds:. And yes, them be fightin' words. We suck. YOLO is often used before taking a risk or questioning a situation. That's cray. It can also be used to describe someone who is acting like a diva. Hey, we'd be cheesed too. You'll see it often used in text messages, Facebook chatter and in memes.
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