Teen Slang

This is a partial glossary of slang current among adolescents circa 2064.


 * 2D
 * old-fashioned, especially of something adults consider good or proper


 * arid
 * excellent, amazing, "hot" (of things)


 * askew
 * weird


 * anx
 * anxiety, angst, problem


 * no anx
 * no worries, no problem


 * what's his anx?
 * what's his problem?


 * any
 * at all


 * or any
 * or anything, or anyone, etc


 * the Burg
 * Harrisburg


 * Burger
 * Harrisburger


 * buzz
 * feeling, mood


 * crash
 * cool, awesome


 * Deadville
 * Upper East Side


 * def
 * definitely


 * doze
 * relax, "chill"


 * dozy
 * quiet, relaxed
 * nothing bad going on


 * fit
 * clothing, outfit


 * freefall
 * cause to drop rapidly


 * global
 * fashionable, in


 * globally
 * extremely, very, somewhat (a weak intensifier by this point)


 * groks
 * sucks


 * harsh
 * worsen


 * Homer
 * a Bayside Academy student or member of staff


 * impaired
 * stupid, "lame"
 * inferior
 * non-fuctional
 * handicapped (highly offensive)


 * junk
 * things, "stuff"
 * something amiss, problem
 * watchemacallit, thingy (countable noun)


 * how's junk (treating you)?
 * how are things going?


 * junk shicks on
 * something bad happens to


 * loop
 * repeat


 * Loopville
 * Newtown (so called because of extensive stretches of sameness)


 * meta
 * extremely


 * midge
 * a young child
 * (offensive) anyone more than a year or two younger


 * mild
 * ok, all right (expresses weak like or approval)


 * neg
 * A casual form of 'No'. Most commonly used in Harrisburg. Short for Negative.
 * You peeday that chick from the club?
 * Neg. She seemed like a snoot.


 * nega-
 * un- (emphatic)
 * negaright
 * awful
 * hideous
 * neganeg
 * yes, definitely!


 * nup
 * a grown-up (see also at pup)


 * the Pancake
 * Lowtown


 * peeday
 * to contact by PDA, especially by voice


 * pos
 * A casual form of 'Yes'. Most commonly used in Harrisburg. Short for Positive.
 * ''You going to that party tonight?'
 * Pos. Heard it's going to be crash.


 * prime
 * Primary, main
 * Great, fantastic. Most often phrased, "That's just prime." It can be used either
 * as a positive expression or as a means of communicating exasperation.


 * proprietary
 * one's own, private, secret


 * pup
 * anyone underage (contrasting with nup; perhaps surprisingly not offensive)
 * note usage with specified ages:
 * 16-pups get in free, but 16-nups pay the whole putrid price.


 * putrid
 * horrible (expresses strong dislike, displeasure or disgust)


 * right
 * excellent, well done
 * physically attractive


 * ro
 * superhero


 * rosen-
 * of or pertaining to metas, forming pseudo-German compounds, e.g rosenstrife 'metahuman fight'


 * rosenville
 * a meta (backformed from plural rosenvilles < ros 'n' vils)


 * sap
 * immediately, at once


 * scene
 * attractive person


 * scenic
 * good-looking


 * shick
 * a euphemism for "shit" in any sense, especially as an expletive


 * SHIT; Snootside Home for Impaired Teens
 * Bayside Academy (highly offensive)


 * sidebar
 * (adj) out of the mainstream
 * (v) sideline, exclude


 * snag
 * understand


 * snoot
 * stuck up
 * wealthy


 * Snootside
 * Bayside


 * Snooty Heights
 * Colonial Heights


 * spur
 * impromptu, improvised, unplanned


 * strife
 * (n) physical assault, violence, fight
 * (v) to strike, beat up, fight (past and past part. strifed or struff)


 * tag
 * to classify, stereotype, write off as (especially in "be tagged as").


 * tiv
 * confident, outgoing (backformed from negative)


 * totes
 * "totally"; used to express agreement


 * treat
 * affect, happen to


 * vil
 * supervillain


 * Veeday
 * (verb) To check; to check out.
 * I.E. Veeday that scene! or I veedayed that book from the library. or Veeday yourself, you're getting too anx over this."


 * without
 * (adj) lacking in something desirable
 * in particular, lacking social sense, clueless


 * ziplock
 * shut up, stop talking about it


 * zone
 * mood


 * -zoned
 * in a particular mood
 * commercial-zoned
 * in a mood for shopping
 * food-zoned
 * hungry
 * industrial-zoned
 * focused on work
 * sex-zoned
 * horny