Modern youth slang. Modern words of youth and their meaning
Words that you heard this year from teens, but were embarrassed to know their meaning
The Expert Council at the Center for the Creative Development of the Russian Language has drawn up a list. In the first place, according to the council, the word "renovation", in the second "bitcoin", in the third - "HYIP". In the opinion of a large part of Moscow teenagers, “HYIP” is no longer surprising, since even the world of parents recognized him as one of the main ones. But there are many such words and memes that even the most inquisitive adults still have to translate.
For example, the word “ fame"(From English fame - glory, fame) - in the literal meaning, fame, fame. Unlike "hype", it has no emotional connotation.
Example: Druzhko loses his fame (Druzhko loses popularity).
Another widely used word, primarily due to the culture of rap battles - punch or punchline (from english punch - beat with a fist). This is a laconic phrase / line ( line), which should hook your opponent very strongly. Like a crushing blow in boxing, in rap battles, the main blow is the punchline, where the opponent is touched as much as possible.
Example: Yesterday the mathematician gave me a pair on the counter, and even punchline rolled it out.
Many words in the adolescent vocabulary express feelings. Often these are English or Japanese borrowings, often tracing copies from English, there are also Russian words used in an unusual sense. But almost always these words are so emotionally colored and pronounced with such a feeling that they are intuitively understandable without translation.
Kripovo / Kripota (from english creepy - creepy, shivering) - something scary or vile.
Example: Yesterday I watched the movie "It" - no, for me something is creepy.
Zashkvar - an obscene, shameful, unworthy act. Also - to wear unfashionable or, conversely, clothes that have become too common.
Example: Just think, Egor's parents took away his smartphone full of crap!
Wearing sweatpants with chelsea is a bastard!
Vinishko - a representative of the “Vino” subculture, a girl with short (no lower than shoulders) hair, bleached or dyed in bright colors. Wears glasses with large lenses, often without diopters, T-shirts with mysterious inscriptions, high-waisted jeans, vintage dresses, can talk about serious philosophical literature, is not alien to the aesthetics of decadence, drinks affordable wine.
Example: I have a friend - a typical vino.
Lamp - warm, touching, nostalgic.
Example: We sat behind garages yesterday as a lamp.
Crash (from english crush - hobby, object of adoration) - a person who is madly in love, an object of desire.
Example: You can not hide - I have long understood that he is your crash!
Sasny (from english sassy - impudent, impudent, lively) - very cute, extremely positive, handsome, sexy.
Example: Olya has a bad crash.
Hayter (from english hate - to hate) - a person who openly expresses his hatred, envy, anger towards a person or in general towards everyone.
Example: Every successful blogger has a lot of haters, that's okay.
Hait - to hate, publicly humiliate, insult, discredit.
Example: There are girls in our class who hate me.
Life - the truth of life, life situation.
Example: Well, what did you want, it’s life, when they laugh at you because of such creepy slippers.
In addition to numerous definitions, there is a huge number of verbs in the adolescent dictionary, and you can often make a mistake when trying to translate at random - as, for example, in the case of the word "yell". Now it means more than shouting loudly.
Oru, yell - to laugh wildly and joyfully, to fall into hysterics from laughter.
Example: Have you seen this Sasch Coon? Oru from his last vidos!
Kuhn - not at all about the Maine Coon cat. This Japanese suffix, which is used in Japanese to express friendship with a boy / man, is called a boy.
Example: What is this coon with purple bangs?
Chan - also a Japanese suffix, used to give the word a diminutive touch. Sometimes it is used in the meaning of "girl, girl".
Example: My girlfriend is so chan!
To swing - to be in a state of delight and affection. Although the word is not entirely new, it is now experiencing a second wave of use, associated with going beyond use solely among anime fans.
Example: We repented with Luda-chan!
Trip / trip (from english trip - trip, journey) is a psychedelic, altered state of consciousness, characterized by atypical perception and an intense process of awareness. Such conditions can be caused in various ways, for example, by taking psychoactive substances. The word, which arose in the era of hippies in the last century, is actively used again. Sometimes it is also used for its intended purpose - in the sense of traveling, going somewhere.
Example: Yesterday's trip was great.
Byte - completely copy the words or style of another person. Steal ideas from someone and take them for yourself.
Example: Fuck MC knocked a beat off Lil Pump!
Stalker - keep an eye on someone, avoiding personal contact.
Example: I think Dima is stalking me.
Wipe, wipe (from english wipe - erase, sweep) - the original technical and gamer meaning "to destroy the data of any group of characters, to clear the game world of changes, to reset the settings" is now not the only one. This verb means cluttering up a network conversation with a huge amount of unnecessary and meaningless information, spamming with pictures and memes in manual and automatic mode. Just like the verb "ban", it is used outside the network context.
Example: Kolyan, you pulled up the wipe!
Flex (from english flex - bend, bend) - swing, dance to the swinging beat, and also clearly show oneself, one's physical capabilities.
Example: Great flex at a Lebanon concert.
There are a huge number of words with unknown, legendary origin, as well as words - abbreviations and abbreviations.
So, rofle - a word based on an English abbreviation, which stands for Rolling on floor laughing - roll on the floor laughing. Accordingly, roflit - laugh wildly, have fun, be in a state of stormy joy. Also, rofl is used in the meaning of "joke, joke".
Example: I swear by his comment.
Diss (from english disrespect - treat dismissively, disrespect) - a rap song that offends another rapper, or a long emotional statement with the aim of offending, belittling the interlocutor.
Example: Oxy gave a credible diss against Purulent.
OTP - an English abbreviation that stands for One true pairing - the only true pair. A pair of love characters from the same or different works of art of particular importance to the individual and / or fans.
Example: For me, Elsa and Jack are OTP.
And, finally, the mysterious " eschere"- a word that, apart from the fact that it sounds funny and shouted out without any connection with the situation, has no special meaning. Can, however, be used as a call to action. Its popularizer in Russia is the scandalous lover of Gucci and burgers, the performer Face. It is believed that "eschkere" - derived from the expression of the American rapper Lil Pump - esketitwhich in turn came from let’s get it.
It's hard to say whether it is true or not. It is important to remember that not every word and expression used in adolescence has a clear meaning. And like any other living language, adolescent language changes, transforms and enriches itself.
We wish you in the new year 2018 to find and not lose a common language with your teenagers!
By the way, 2018 in this language will sound like this: 2k18. The "K" in the year number stands for the abbreviation of the prefix kilo, or thousand. Example: 2d17 is coming to an end!
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Youth slang changes over the years, many words are forgotten, new ones are invented. Moreover, recently it has been happening so rapidly that those in their 30s and 40s, those who were young quite recently, hardly understand today's schoolchildren and students. For example, if for you the words "chan", "chill", "kek" are just a set of funny sounds, then you can safely delete yourself from the ranks of young people.
sitei found out what words are used in their speech by those who are now from 12 to 25 years old.
"Shazamit"
There is a smartphone application that determines what song is playing at the moment. Shazam is called. Hence "shazamit" - "to find out the name of the song with the help of this application or a similar application."
"Easy"
It comes from the English easy - "simple, easy." Most often it means some incredibly simple action or attitude of a person to different life situations. They also say so when they ask someone to “be simpler”, “calm down”.
"Life"
Zhiza is an abbreviation of the common word for life. Young people use it when they need to say something like "life situation, vital".
"Agri"
There are 2 versions of the origin of this word: from English angry ("angry, indignant") or agression ("aggression, scandal"). Teenagers use this word as a synonym for the words "angry", "mad", "hate", "irritated".
"Go"
In English, the verb to go sounds like go. But today's youth are lazy and like to use short words in their speech or correspondence. And even "go" was too long for them, so it was shortened to "go". They use this word when they call someone somewhere.
"Shame"
Shame is translated as "shame", and the word "shame" is used when they want to shame a person for something. For example, for the style of dress or deed. Derived from this word - "shamers". These are the ones who judge other people.
"Soryan"
Derived from the English sorry - "regretting". So they say when asking for forgiveness in an awkward situation. It's funny that the word "sorry" has been used in Russian for many years along with the word "sorry". But for some reason this very "sorry" mutated and turned into an even more careless "litter".
"Roflit"
ROFL is an English abbreviation for rolling on the floor laughing. Previously, when communicating through some messengers, instead of this abbreviation, an emoticon was used, which rolled on the floor laughing. Now "swear" means "laugh out loud" or "play a trick on someone." Among teenagers, the word "rofle" is also used in the meaning of "some insanely funny joke or story."
"Foody"
So now they call people who love to eat deliciously (from the English food - "food"). Moreover, food for them is more significant things than the simple satisfaction of physical needs. They understand the intricacies of cooking fashionable dishes, follow all the grocery stores and disdain ordinary dishes like naval pasta. Foody is a kind of subculture that is actively gaining popularity today. Food is a hobby for them.
"Kek"
This is an interjection that expresses an ironic, malevolent laugh. Almost the same as "lol", only the difference is that "lol" is almost always used in a positive sense, and "cake" in a negative way. Depending on the context, kek can also be called a person who is in an awkward position, gloating at the same time. According to one version, this word came from the gaming environment and was an abbreviation of the expression Kekeke, meaning laughter and something like "heh" (laugh).
"Binjwatching"
This word comes from the English binge ("binge") and watching ("watching"). This is the name of the process when a person watches an entire series or a whole season in one sitting, without stopping. Roughly speaking, "binge-watching" is "drunken watching of serials".
"Chan"
This word came to us from anime, and in Japanese it is used as a prefix to the girl's name. Means cute, beautiful. It is often used in the phrase "lamp chan", which means "the ideal girl who is almost impossible to meet in real life."
"Gamat"
From English game - "game". Teenagers use this word to mean "spending time playing a computer game."
"Check"
The word means "to check, to punch information about something or someone." It comes from the English word check, which translates as "check, clarify, break the info".
"Haight"
From English hate - "hatred". "Hate" - "express resentment about any reason." And people who actively hate are called haters. For example, haters can often be found among commentators who are not fed bread - give me something or someone to criticize.
"Zashkvar"
This word comes from criminal jargon, but young people perceive it in their own way. For example, this word can be interpreted as “shame, shame”. It can also be something out of fashion, out of popularity, or something stupid (according to teenagers). Let's say if a guy puts on socks and sandals, it’s a bastard.
Of course, we do not at all like this full-scale dominance of Anglicisms in the Russian language, but, alas, there is no escape from this: language is a living and changing phenomenon. Some words will sink into oblivion in a few years, and new ones will also appear. Despite this, we hope that we will still be able to preserve the culture of the Russian language.
How to understand what teens are talking about.
In April 2018, Gorod 812 first published a dictionary of St. Petersburg youth slang. However, many words have become obsolete in a year - the adolescent language is changing rapidly. We have again collected everything new and incomprehensible from their language and publish an up-to-date dictionary with comments by Doctor of Philology, Professor Tatiana Nikitina.
Linguists call youth slang a sociolect - that is, a speech feature characteristic of a certain group of people. In Russia, the development of youth slang has experienced three violent waves. The first wave (1920s) was associated with an increase in the number of street children and criminals after the revolution and the Civil War. The second (1950s) - with the advent of dudes. The third (1970s) - with the emergence during the period of stagnation of informal youth movements - hippies, for example.
According to Doctor of Philology Tatyana Nikitina, today we are on the crest of the fourth wave associated with the active use of social networks and the Internet. It used to be thought that teenage slang was a manifestation of rebellion. Now everything is different.
- There is no rebellion, it is no longer fashionable. Young people are busy with their own affairs, study, career. The priorities are different. Now it is fashionable to be original, creative, and, in my opinion, youth slang is a manifestation of this trend. Rather, it is a language game - playful, playfully ironic. There is nothing conspiratorial about it. Before, teenagers used slang to hide some of their thoughts, secrets from adults or from those who are not in the "system." For example, there was such a well-known expression - "laces in a glass", which meant: "parents at home." Or drugs were called by female names - Martha, Marfushka, Katya. "Give Katya 20 kisses" meant: "Bring me 20 grams of such and such a drug."
- They say that most of the words passed into youth slang from criminal jargon. Where do new words come from now?
- Probably everything that could come from the criminal jargon has already come. Nowadays word formation due to the reduction of words is relevant. The law of linguistic economy works. Instead of a test - credits, instead of competitions - competitions. Corporate - building, conference - conf. The same trend exists in English-language youth slang.
- Is the adolescent language the same throughout the country or is it different for each region?
- There is general youth slang, which is widespread throughout the country, and there is regional. The latter is mainly used for some local names - streets, monuments, and so on. Usually - to create a comic effect. For example, the store "Mayak" is called "Maniac". Cinema "Victory" - "Trouble". The kindergarten "Kolobok" is deprived of the first two letters in the name.
- At what age do children start using slang? And when do they leave?
- We did research in elementary school: even young children use slang. For example, those who are smaller are called blots. When do they stop? Everyone has their own way. Some words from their own youth are used in speech by quite old people. Among the seventies, the word "nishtyak", for example, is still popular.
– Do words often pass from youth to adult language?
- It happens. For example, the words "tusovka", "cool", "cool" used to be purely slang words, but now they are used everywhere. The democratization of the language is taking place, and these colloquial words have already penetrated the pages of newspapers and TV.
– Do such words enter dictionaries? Is there a special procedure for officially recognizing new words?
- There is no dictionary fixation now. But earlier dictionaries were published, which were called: "New words and meanings." It was believed that if a word appeared in the normative explanatory dictionary without the labels "special" or "slang", then it can already be considered common. Now the boundaries have blurred. It is difficult to say when the novelty ends and the word becomes common language. Of course this is a problem. It would be nice to publish dictionaries more often. But the publishers are swinging for a long time: you hand over the material, then work goes on for about a year, and by the time it goes to print everything is already outdated. Slang was, is and will be. Of course, it needs to be studied. At least in order to explain to foreigners what words and where can be used. I teach Russian to foreign students. They sometimes write in official documents: "Please transfer me from hostel number 1 to ..." Or: "Teacher such and such ..."
– How fast is youth slang changing?
- Very fast! I work with students and often ask them to read the youth slang dictionaries of the past. The last one I gave them was released in 2013. Fifty percent of the words from there they no longer use, - said Tatyana Nikitina.
Elena Rotkevich
Words fashionable in 2010-2012
Professor Nikitina has been studying youth slang for many years. She prepared the first dictionary back in 1994. But now, she said, she switched to other projects. Here are some examples of words that were fashionable in 2010-2012 from Nikitina's monograph "Modern youth vocabulary in linguocultural and lexicographic aspects":
vipar - VIP person;
goldukha - Golden medal;
helper - cheat sheet;
sidyuk - compact disc (CD);
pisyuk - Personal Computer;
business - a policeman who takes bribes;
herocopy - photocopy;
squeeze claudia - to type text on the keyboard.
The latest vocabulary of youth slang– 2019
2k19 - 2019th year.
Agri - get angry, swear at someone. Why are you Agri on me?
BombIt - infuriates, annoys, annoys. I'm bombing with him!
Burning - very angry, boiling. I burn with his manners.
Pull in - hit, beat. I'll get you in if you take my thing.
GodnotA - good, fit. The film is good!
Life- vital. I wrote this work poorly. - Life! (I, too).
ZhirobAs - fat man.
BACK UP - book. I made a reservation at a cafe.
InfasOtka - 100% reliable information. Are you sure? - Infasotka!
Kripovo - fearfully. Creepy movie.
Throw a screen - send a screenshot (screenshot of your computer or phone screen).
Krch- shorter.
Lalka - a girl in an awkward situation. Well, you're a lalka!
Lan- okay, good. Lan, I'll do it.
Rain -– leave, leave. Well, that's it, I'm pouring.
Lois - like
OverdofigA - lots of. The overdof people.
Oki - okay.
OU - laugh. I'm screaming from this video.
To golose - laugh out loud.
Och- highly.
Pzh - you are welcome.
Repet - tutor.
Restik - a restaurant.
Cassny - attractive, sexy, cute. Bad guy.
Soryan - I'm sorry. Oh, weed! I accidentally.
Top, topchik - the best. This dress is just a top! Top dress!
Dupa, dupik - stupid. Oh, I'm a dead end!
I have paws - an approximate meaning: "Well, I'm so cute!" Usually used to make excuses. Why didn't you wash the dishes ?! I have paws!
Forcing - to promote, persistently advise, propagandize. He is forcing this book.
Chill - to rest, to mess around. I'm going to chill.
Shmot - thing, things. I bought the top gear.
ShnYazhka - a nice thing, something cute or tasty. I want some shnyazhka.
No longer in vogue. Words of 2018
Go -let's go.
S -expresses emotion when there is nothing to say, something like "uh-uh".
Drain the roller -lose in a computer game.
Agony! - great, great!
Azaz -funny (hahaha).
Lol -well, funny.
Rofl, roflit -joke, joke.
La! -replacement of consonant obscene profanity.
Heh -so, so, eh.
Chek -check, view.
So, blet -what is this ?!
Blet new -again, Navalny is to blame for everything.
Flashback - when something is repeated again.
Bayan -anecdote with a beard, a fable.
Hype -what is fashionable is relevant at the moment.
Zashkvar -ugh! Something bad, poor quality, shameful.
Xs -i do not know.
Fumble -understand, understand something.
The list of modern words of youth is updated daily. Understanding the meaning of slang elements is important not only to stay “on topic”, but also to grasp the main idea of \u200b\u200bthe content created by young bloggers. Active users of the Internet (social networks and the YouTube video server) are the main sources for introducing new words into the speech of modern children and adolescents.
Youth slang, its influence on the speech of adolescents. What is the risk of using slang in conversation?
Slang refers to the unusual vocabulary used by teenagers to communicate with each other. Initially, words that were understandable to a narrow circle of people were used exclusively in a professional environment (among musicians, doctors, builders, and so on).
Timely words of youth. The meaning of popular phrases and expressions
Now the speech of adolescents is also filled with peculiar terms. They are not the usual fruit of the imagination of children, but represent a full-fledged language with origins and different directions.
The most common elements of youth slang are:
- words borrowed from other languages;
- in foreign words;
- phrases borrowed from professional vocabulary or vocabulary of narrow circles (for example, the so-called "new Russians"; people serving sentences in places of detention, and so on).
Modern words of youth and their meaning (the list of the most actively used ones is freely available on the Internet) cannot be perceived as an evaluative factor in the development of a particular person. Despite this, the speech of adolescents directly affects their future fate.
Among the negative consequences constant use of slang in conversations (regardless of the age and social status of the interlocutor) note:
- difficulties in getting a good position at work;
- misunderstanding on the part of other people (not using slang);
- shifting to a slang-driven model of behavior (for example, boys whose vocabulary consists of the words of people serving sentences rarely boast of exemplary behavior or good studies);
- deterioration of academic performance (rarely using the words of the classical Russian language in communication, adolescents begin to cope worse with writing essays at school or university, retelling and other tasks involving the use of literate speech).
List of slang words and their meaning
Modern words of youth and their meaning (a list will be presented below) are constantly changing.
The most frequently used phrases are so ingrained in the speech of adolescents that they are now understandable even to older people.
| Slang elements | Short description |
| Viper | It is this slang element that heads the list of modern words of youth. According to the generally accepted meaning, this is the name of a person who prefers to smoke electronic vapor "cigarettes". Such devices usually create a cloud of vapor that is pleasant to smokers (the modern vaping liquid market offers scents from classic mint to chocolate and nuts). This vapor is created by heating the internal element of the vape structure, forcing the liquid poured inside to boil. Vipers justifiably do not consider themselves to be smokers, since the formulations for "electronic cigarettes" of the vapor type do not contain nicotine, which significantly reduces the harm caused to the body during their use. |
| Challenge | This word was borrowed from the English language. In its original meaning, it is understood as a "challenge" (which can be thrown or accepted, not inbound or outbound). Modern Russian-speaking adolescents use this term when it comes to the need to take someone “weakly” or to complete a difficult task assigned to them. The challenge can be massive, both sports (push-ups 100 times and upload videos to the Internet), and mental (read 50 books per month). They are usually launched on social networks and are of a population nature. |
| LS, LSny | This element of slang originated and is most popular in the society of gamers (players of computer games or games released on the PlayStation or Xbox console). The abbreviation came into Russian from English. Originally, it sounds like "low skill", which means "low skill". This is the name given to beginners in the game who do not have enough knowledge to participate in the action on a par with the "professionals." |
| Oru | It is used in the context of a humiliating joke or an incident that happened to the person to whom this element of slang is applied ("I am from her Oru"). The most common meaning of the word is to laugh at someone (has a negative connotation). Initially, "Oru" was used only on one Internet resource - "Pikabu", later moved into posts on "VKontakte", and now it is used in the speech of young people during ordinary communication with each other in an informal setting. When writing this term, it must necessarily consist of capital letters, or at least start with a capital letter. When a word is written in regular script, its "modern" meaning will be lost. |
| Ruffle | A term applied to contests and sweepstakes held on social networks, in particular VKontakte and Instagram. The word is borrowed from the English language, in which it has an identical meaning. Raffle can only be a contest that requires reposts on social networks. In all other cases, it would be inappropriate to apply such a name to the drawing. |
| Krinzh | This is another borrowing from the English language, repeating its meaning in Russian. Describing the subject or the events taking place as "krinzh" or "krinzh", young people call them "vile, disgusting, disgusting." Under certain circumstances, this term can be used to describe the shame or embarrassment felt by one person for actions taken by another. Most often, the word "krinzh" can be found on the Internet, since it can be used to characterize the current emotional state of a person as succinctly as possible. In live speech, young people practically do not use it. |
| Chan | This term came into Russian slang from the Japanese language, where it is not a separate unit, but a suffix that gives diminutive meaning to ordinary words. Given the "homeland" of this word, it is not surprising that it is especially popular in the circles of fans of Japanese anime, comics and games. Among young people who are fond of foreign culture, it is customary to call a young girl "chan". Such an appeal emphasizes the beautiful appearance of the representative of the beautiful half of humanity, and also expresses sympathy towards her from the person using the word in question. |
| Schipper | This term is used to refer to a narrow circle of people who are fans of a particular television series or its main characters. "Shippers" not only study in detail the past of their idols, but also delve into the nuances of their relationship along the storyline of the work. Possessing a sufficient amount of knowledge characterizing the characters, such fans draw pictures from their lives and think over alternative endings of the works. |
| Ohayo, ohayo | This word was borrowed from the Japanese language. Lovers of foreign culture use this term as a morning greeting to each other (an alternative to the phrase "Good morning!"). "Ohayo, ohayo" was taken from comics and anime, which explains the use of these words in narrow circles of fans. In the original, such a greeting sounds like "gozaimasu". |
| Kpuala | A term for "absurdity" or "stupid mistake." It occurred as a result of an erroneous spelling of the word "kupala" in the textbook for grade 3, which at one time caused a public dissatisfaction among parents with the authors of the textbook. According to the terms of their assignment, the students had to collect a word by finding letters as a result of solving complex examples. Instead of the word “kupala”, the students received the non-existent word “kpuala”. |
| C | This letter was used to illustrate clinking in the classical works of famous authors ("He, slightly clicking his tongue, ... Ts-ts-ts ..." a fragment from the book "Stone Flower"). To understand the meaning of such an abbreviation used in the speech of today's youth, it is necessary to assess the context in which it is used. In the vast majority of cases, the letter "t" repeated 3-4 times in social networks denotes surprise, irritation or a feeling of annoyance. |
| Harvest | This word was borrowed from the English language. In the modern language of young people, it has 2 meanings. With this term, teens communicate on topics from the world of the computer games industry. In this context, "Harvest" means a crop that is ready to be harvested. Another meaning of this word is “expensive”, “rich” (by analogy with the Harvest cigarette brand, which positions itself as premium tobacco). |
| CPU in LAN - Tsope, Tsope, Tsope | This abbreviation is partially borrowed from the English language (Child Porn - the first letters of the words are taken and interpreted into Russian). In slang, it symbolizes an offer to send pornographic material in private messages to the sender of this phrase. Some young people, not understanding the true meaning of the phrase in question, use it on social networks as an illustration of their intention to see something beautiful, pleasant, pleasing to their eyes. |
| Sasny | This element of colloquial vocabulary came to the slang of Russian-speaking youth from the English language. A foreign analogue (adjective "sassy") is used to characterize an arrogant person who is able to go ahead to achieve his own goal. Modern adolescents have interpreted the word in question in their own way and now use it when it is necessary to give a positive description of an ongoing event or a specific object (analogs - “cool”, “beautiful”, “cool”). |
| Homunculus | Initially, this word was used in the context of describing a person who was born "from a test tube." Later, this was the name of the monster in the anime "Steel Chemist". It was this that served as the basis for translating the word in question into an element of slang. Modern adolescents under the homunculus mean their negative attitude to the appearance of an object or a specific person (analogs - "scary", "ugly", "vile"). |
| Blue Whale / Blue Whale Quest | It is a virtual death game that resonated in 2016. According to rumors, in order to start the game, the teenager had to write a special hashtag on his page on the social network, after which the so-called Blue Whale curator contacted him and gave him an assignment. The end of the game was considered to be suicide. Despite the fact that the game in question has become a tool for the media that creates panic among the population, there is still no reliable confirmation of the existence of the "Blue Whale". |
| Lampovo | The word came into the spoken language of teenagers from the slang of musicians. Guitarists, whose instrument had built-in tubes that are analogous to microcircuits and transistors, called their music "tube". At that time, such guitars were considered top-of-the-line inventions, which gave rise to the interpretation of "lamp-like" as "cool", "ideality", "sensible" (the specific meaning depends on the context). |
| ChSV | It is an abbreviation for “a sense of self-importance (or greatness)”. The word has a rather negative connotation and is used in the context of describing a selfish person who considers himself ideal. |
| Lmao, LMFAO, LMAO | This is an abbreviation of English words that originally sounds like "Laugh my fuckin ass off", used to express positive emotions, in particular laughter. The letter combinations under consideration are especially popular among active users of social networks, for example, VKontakte and Instagram. |
| Luxury | This is the Russian-language pronunciation of the English word "luxury". In modern slang, it retains its foreign meaning and is used in the context of describing something luxurious or rich. |
| Reflective | This is the name of the reflective material used in sewing youth clothing and shoes. In slang, this word came from the English language (reflective), where it has an identical meaning. |
| Lichinus | This term is used colloquially by people who position themselves as "childfree" (child haters). They call the children who surround them by lichinuses, regardless of the gender of the child. |
| Kalich | It is used to characterize an awkward person or someone who is not a professional in their kind of activity. |
| Scan with zip | A phrase that took root in the speech of young people after the release of the song of the young rapper Pharaoh. In it, he uses these words in their direct meaning: skanka (a kind of drug) with a zip (plastic bag with a reusable clip). |
| Sharit | The generally accepted analogous meaning is “understands”, “understands well”. |
| Beauty | An English word meaning “beautiful”, “beauty”, and in some cases “everything related to personal care” (for example, a beauty blogger is a person who shoots videos about the correct application of makeup, skin care after sunbathing etc). |
| Badman, badman | In slang it is used in its original meaning (English word) - "bad man", "dangerous man", "alpha male". |
| Salt chan | This characteristic is applied to unchaste girls of easy virtue who are not shy about their lifestyle. |
| 4:20 | Used in the subculture of North American addicts. "4:20" can be decoded as April 20 or 4 am 20 minutes. This is the date or time that all participants will meet at the designated location to smoke drugs and discuss their state's policy on legalizing marijuana. |
| Louboutins | So in the common people it is customary to call high-heeled shoes from the famous designer Christian Louboutin and copies of shoes of a luxury brand. |
| Chepushilo | Used to characterize a stupid, morally degraded person whose actions cause universal condemnation. |
| Fuccboi | This is a young man who always strives to be in trend. He not only dresses fashionably, but also always "in the subject" of current events in his close environment and the world in general. |
| For fun | Analog of the phrase "for fun", "just like that." |
| Keck | The word is used when it is necessary to briefly illustrate that an event or phrase caused a person to laugh (analogue - "haha"). |
| Hype, hype, hype | Fashionable, modern, relevant, to be "in the subject" |
| Vaper | Analogue of the word "viper" |
| Zashkvar | Shame |
| Byte, Byte | To provoke someone to take an action (most often used on YouTube, when an intriguing photo is placed on the main picture of a video, which is not related to the content, but forcing a person to watch this video) |
| Patimaker | The person in charge of organizing the party. |
| Thrasher | This is the name given to fans of thrash music, for example, heavy metal or hard rock. |
| Flex, flex, low flex | Sway to the rhythm of some music (most often used when it comes to rap songs). |
| Aksemora | This is the name given to illiterate people or first-year students who have recently entered the university. |
| Crash | A sudden error that occurs in a computer system and interferes with the normal use of programs in the future. |
List of modern computer words with meaning
Modern words of young people and their meaning (the list is formed from elements of slang borrowed from various spheres of life) are, for the most part, actively introduced into speech by means of computer games.
The most commonly used phrases of gamers:
- abuse - violation of the rules of the game;
- cheating - cheating, using dishonest methods of struggle;
- combo - 2 or more successful consecutive moves carried out within the game;
- heal or heal - restore the life resource of the selected hero in the game;
- lag - violation of normal gameplay due to technical malfunctions of servers or the main computer.
The list of modern words of youth reflects the direction of the generation's development.
If in the early 2000s, at the peak of popularity, there were elements of slang, the meaning of which was formed from the subcultures of bandits and drug addicts, then, following current trends, we can conclude that modern adolescents are most passionate about anime, comics and computer games.
Video about youth slang test
Test for knowledge of youth modern slang:
In any youth subculture, slang is one of the ways of self-expression. Everyone goes through that age when the vocabulary is clogged with various "words" that have nothing to do with normal speech.
Over time, most slang words become a thing of the past, but people use some of them all their lives, without even thinking by whom and when they were invented.
For example, the now popular word "jib" was coined as early as the 1970s. But the word "gerla" (girl), which was used at the same time, has remained in the past.
Bright Side invites you to remember how young people talked 50 years ago, 40 years ago, and so on to this day.
1960s
Boilers - watches
Heal - take a leisurely stroll
Shuzy on porridge - shoes with thick soles made of white synthetic rubber
Broadway is the main (central) street of any city. For example, in St. Petersburg Nevsky Prospect was called Broadway, and in Moscow - Gorky Street (Peshkov Street)
Mani, manushki - money
Shoelaces in a glass - an expression that meant that parents are at home
Baruja is a broad-minded girl with regard to communicating with guys
Matched - a distorted abbreviation "matched", that is, things made in the USSR
Chucha - a song from the movie "Serenades of the Sun Valley", which became a cult for the dudes of the Soviet Union
Music on bones - a method of recording homemade music records on X-rays
Style - dance
Drumming - having sex
A young man from the 60s's story about his evening adventures might look something like this:
“Yesterday we were sick on Broadway, one of my sidekicks promised shuzy on porridge and also drove the shuza about the boilers from the Czech Republic, but it wasn’t lucky - he threw the fraerok, brought some kind of Riga one. There were manyushki, they decided to go to the "Stork", so there the redneck raised a screech because of my hen. There was no way they could come to my house: laces in a glass. Let's go to her. They listened to Chucha on the bones, danced almost until the morning and got cut down. "
1970s
Police - police
Gerla - girl
Haer - long hair
To cut a hair - to cut. In those years, this was often done by the police during arrest
Haypatnik - a tape that supports the hair on the forehead
Face - appearance, face
Ppikid - clothes
Strive - to be afraid, to be afraid
Fackman is an unpleasant type, a loser
To joke - to laugh at someone, to mock
Get lost - leave, run away
Drunk to the craze - get drunk to unconsciousness
A guy from the 70s talks about the drama between him and his girlfriend after being shaved bald in the barbershop:
“Recently, the policy haer drank my head, I spent so long for a civilian. My ancestors still approved of my face, even if the shovel had started, they would have caught glitches from the buzz. Such jokes shook me, I felt like a fan without a hayratnik. Then my girl first joked at me, then skipped altogether. For several weeks I walked around as a dead man, all I did was sit there like a drugged, totally screwed up to the edge, nothing clung. "
1980s
To break off - to lose interest in something, lose heart, be left with nothing, "burn out"
Session - concert
Iron - a beveler (buyer or speculator) who buys things and currency from foreigners
Askat - asking for money on the street from passers-by
Birch - workers of the volunteer squad who helped the police to carry out educational sanctions in relation to informal youth
Sister, sister - system girl
Lyubera - residents of Lyubertsy, who wore checkered pants made of curtains and short haircuts, considered it their duty to come to the capital and beat all owners of long hair
Fit - let good people stay overnight at your home
A sponge is a girl who cannot be called "pretty"
System is the common name for all informals
"Tourist" is an inexpensive coffee shop popular among system specialists, located at the Boulevard Ring, a common meeting place for them
A story about how the 80s disco ended very badly for someone:
“Yesterday I went to a session with my sidekick and his chick, a clear bix. The music is awful, the dudes on the stage jumped with credit. Everything was cool until the cops came and stopped disco. It turned out that some iron was pushing all kinds of garbage right at the session, well, they accepted it. "
1990s
Lave - money
Hockey stick - girl
Everything above the roof is all right
Riding over the ears - talking long and boring
Download - make you think
Cool theme - good music
Crocodile - a girl of unsightly appearance
"My nerves!" - an exclamation that expresses a wide range of feelings from extreme indignation to violent fun
Nishtyak! - expression of approval
Zero - brand new (about things)
Pioneer - beginner
Raise kipesh - fuss
Pontus - hypertrophied self-esteem
Crackle - speak
On the way - apparently
Outfit - clothing, clothing style
Cool - fun
Sabantuy - party
Dumb - unfashionable, bad
You can't dismiss your cowards - be afraid of something
Smart - arousing the interest of others, funny
Firm - foreigners
Cheating - cheerful, noisy, lively
Plaster - cosmetics
A guy from the 90s tells a friend about how he met a girl:
“Yesterday I got acquainted with one club, such a freak, well, just Zabava Putyatishna, bursting incessantly, a cool outfit. At first I thought to postebat her, but she uploaded me to the most I do not want. I realized that it would not work with her. In short, next week a friend will have a sabantuy, he invited her there. "
2000s
Person - person
Chiksa is a girl
Falloff, flying away - good
Tin, not childish - a strong emotion
Free - free
The roof is the head
Make love - sex
Hit - fight
Hut - apartment
Slippers - shoes
Bratello is a friend
With decl - a little
Break off - get it by accident, by pull
Flashlight - tape recorder
Sucks - bad, bad
Cool - good, funny
Violet - all the same
Scrap - laziness, reluctance to do anything
Pipes - Straight Pants
Linden, linden - fake, fake
The brake is a person who thinks slowly
Really, in kind - in fact
Load - give a large amount of unnecessary information, sometimes deliberately chatter
Clone - copied, written off
Mobile - phone, communication
Glitch - a bug in a computer program
A happy schoolboy from the 2000s - on how he got his father's old phone:
“Yesterday such a cool mobile broke off to me, just fly away! My father decided to buy a new one for himself, like this buggy is not childish. He was to scrap it to carry it to repair, well, he melted it for me in a quick way. And it is really normal, it only slows down a bit at all. "
2010s
Wild - strange
The frame is an extraordinary person
Channel - fit, be fit
Cap is a person who says the usual things
OMG is an exclamation expressing surprise, fear and other violent emotions (from the English abbreviation OMG - Oh my God - Oh my God!)
Parallel - no difference, no matter, no matter
Fake - fake, falsification, not true (from English fake - fake)
Use - to use something
Go - let's go, let's go
Copy-paste - copy other people's texts
Hipster is a man going against the mainstream
SLR - professional or semi-professional camera
Nice - nice, nice, nice, nice
Carbon monoxide - funny
Stir up - organize a party, start a relationship
Cosmos - Expression of approval, admiration; satisfaction with anything, anyone
Beggar - free SMS with a request to call back
Shocked - very much
Piece - 1000 rubles
Hackentosh - hacked Apple software, derived from Hack and Mackentosh
Pichalka - resentment or frustration
Soap dish - a compact camera with a built-in lens, usually lightweight and small in size
Bayan - repetition
Friends from the 2010s are making plans for the evening:
“You won't be able to take a walk today, the weather is just kapets, it's raining all day and it's cold! Therefore, go to strawberries, I think. Just do not ask to take a DSLR, it is heavy in shock. I'll take a soap dish, let's stop taking pictures. And don't take this hipster friend of yours. He might be a carbon monoxide dude, but it's too wild when he drinks. Everything, as I am at your stop, I will throw off the beggar, but there is no money on the phone. Come out there immediately. "
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