Learn to speak teen - YOU Magazine Fashion Beauty Celebrity Health Life Relationships Horoscopes Food Interiors Travel Sign in Welcome!Log into your account Forgot your password? Password recovery Recover your password Search Sign in Welcome! Log into your account Forgot your password? Get help Password recovery Recover your password A password will be e-mailed to you. YOU Magazine Fashion Beauty Celebrity Health Life Relationships Horoscopes Food Interiors Travel Home Life Learn to speak teen By You Magazine - May 9, 2021 Struggling to keep up with the youth of today? Michael Hogan decodes the lingo you need to know. AHLIE An expression of agreement or confirmation. Example of correct usage: ‘Your mum won’t get this.’ ‘Ahlie.’ BET Shorthand for ‘You bet’. Common usage: ‘Wanna go* Nando’s?’ ‘Bet.’ *Important note: do not use ‘to’ in this communication. Prepositions are extremely ageing. BLITZ Not war but weather. Can be escalated to ‘blitzkrieg’ but you still won’t get them to wear a coat. Getty Images CD9 Short for Code 9, meaning: ‘Can’t talk now, my mum’s here.’ Can be abbreviated to ‘9’ or alternated with the acronym ‘POS’ (parents over shoulder). DOGGO/DOGE One minute your teen can’t be bothered with full words, the next they’re augmenting them. What’s wrong with ‘dog’? FLEX To flaunt or show off as you would a muscle: ‘She’s flexing about her exam results.’ Mortify your teen by applying it to your world: ‘Dad’s flexing about his cordless hedge trimmer.’ GOAT When Strictly judge Craig Revel Horwood used the term (meaning Greatest of All Time) last series, he got blank looks from everyone born before 1991. HUNDO P Means 100 per cent sure, certain: ‘Do you definitely fancy him?’ ‘Hundo P.’ ICK When you suddenly go off someone, you’ve got ‘the ick’: ‘He wore flip-flops to the pub. I got the ick.’ LENG Something or someone good-looking. An upgrade on its forerunner ‘peng’. The two can even be combined into ‘peng-a-leng’. LIT Formerly slang for pleasantly drunk but now means anything exciting (‘That party was lit’). Can be accompanied by flaming emojis as required. NO CAP Not lying – the equivalent of ‘for real’ or ‘straight up’. Garnish this with a baseball cap emoji. OG Stands for ‘original gangster’ but used for anything seen as classic and authentic. If your teen honours you with this description, you are definitely winning. SPILL THE TEA ‘Tea’ is the act of gossip, so ‘spill the tea’ means to share the latest juicy news. THICC Fat in all the right places. A muscly man can be a ‘thiccboi’ but also ‘swole’ or ‘hench’. If intimidatingly large, he can even be an ‘absolute unit’. THIRSTY Overly desperate for approval or compliments. A blatantly attention-seeking social media post can be a ‘thirst trap’. WE MOVE If something goes wrong, ‘we move’ means to get over it and carry on: ‘I got fired from the coffee shop but, hey, we move.’ YEET An expression of excitement or surprise thought to be a mix of ‘Yes!’ and ‘All right!’. Can be employed when executing a killer dance move. Go on, you know you want to… ZUMPING Dumping a lover over Zoom. If your teen is moodier than usual then maybe they’ve just been ‘zumped’. Probably don’t ask. EMOJI-O-METER WHAT’S IN You’re dying laughing Something is ‘lit’ – meaning exciting Acknowledging you’re fishing for validation WHAT’S OUT Voted the uncoolest emoji by under-30s Monochrome hearts are much more now Stop treating life like a giant to-do list RELATED ARTICLESMORE FROM AUTHOR Everything we know about The Crown season 5 Aldi s exercise equipment is on sale with up to 50% off The best Halloween events for 2022 across the UK Popular in Life The You magazine team reveal their New Year s resolutions December 31, 2021 Susannah Taylor The TLC tools your body will love January 23, 2022 How to stop living in fear February 6, 2022 Susannah Taylor My pick of the fittest leggings February 27, 2022 Women’ s Prize for Fiction 2022 winner announced June 17, 2022 These BBC dramas are returning for a second series June 30, 2022 Susannah Taylor gives the lowdown on nature s little helper – CBD April 17, 2022 The baby names that are banned across the world April 27, 2022 The Queen has released her own emojis May 26, 2022 Sally Brompton horoscopes 27th June-3rd July 2022 June 26, 2022 Popular CategoriesFood2704Life2496Fashion2240Beauty1738Celebrity1261Interiors684 Sign up for YOUMail Thanks for subscribing Please check your email to confirm (If you don't see the email, check the spam box) Fashion Beauty Celebrity Life Food Privacy & Cookies T&C Copyright 2022 - YOU Magazine. All Rights Reserved