What “outdated” slang words or terms do you still use often?

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What “outdated” slang words or terms do you still use often?

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  1. welding_guy_fromLI Avatar

    Still use a lot of 90s slang like homie , dude awesome

  2. GhostPantherAssualt Avatar

    No don’t throw me in the briar patch!

  3. InteractionOk6979 Avatar

    I feel like saying “yeah it’s sick” is abit outdated now

  4. Ligmartian Avatar

    Radical ironically, groovy unironically.

  5. BossAmazing9715 Avatar

    I’m on the up and up

  6. buychipotle Avatar

    I still drop “cool” and “rad” way more than I should, and I’ll forever say “dude” regardless of gender or era.

  7. letstalkabouttrauma Avatar

    Idk if it’s outdated but I still say okie dokie daily 😂

  8. ---Stacys_mom Avatar

    I still say “sick” at least once a day

  9. whatheactuaIfuck Avatar

    “Daddles” which is a Victorian Era slang term for “Fists”

    Do ‘t use it much, but when I do… it’s glorious 

  10. Ok-Recipe-8832 Avatar

    Golly. Frequently. I’ll also occasionally say swag or epic but it’s mostly ironic

  11. Ancient_Type_7322 Avatar

    I have a couple. Cool beans, totes, and talk to the hand. And whenever I end up saying at least one of these, my young nieces give me the side eye. And that just confirms I’m getting old…

  12. Big_Supermarket3258 Avatar

    I still drop “cool beans” like it’s 2005 and I’m in a Disney channel movie.

  13. Best_Possibility953 Avatar

    By the Good Grace of Jove

  14. thebarricadeview Avatar

    I still use bruh and slay. I find it cringe when i catch myself saying it, but it just falls out

  15. South_Homework8394 Avatar

    I use “bitchin,” “rad,” and “awesome” a lot. My kids tell me I’m old.

  16. Smoothsailing4589 Avatar

    I call beer brewski. “Hey man, stop over and let’s have a brewski!”

  17. bambuhbamba Avatar

    It’s probably a sign I’m getting older because I don’t even care anymore lol! I used to a little bit but lately, not so much….😂

  18. apetalous42 Avatar

    “Sup dawg?”, “What’s Crackin?”, “Fo sho?”. I swear I’m a white man who was never what anyone would have considered “cool” or even all that into rap at the time.

  19. altcompanion Avatar

    unironically still say “fam”

  20. DontYuckMyYum Avatar

    that’s dope!

    bruh…

    cool beans

  21. Able_Emu3109 Avatar

    Groovy .. all day

  22. dernfoolidgit Avatar

    Whippersnapper. Some Gen X dude said it was racist, WTF?

  23. Live-Ad-3352 Avatar

    Calling weed “reefer”

  24. KaleSerious4796 Avatar

    People know that I am old when I say “answering machine” instead of “voicemail.” How about saying “Xerox” instead of photocopy. Or saying “no problem”, instead of “no worries?”

  25. Dapper-Run8931 Avatar

    I thought this thread would be people saying stuff that was offensive and inappropriate but it’s literally just old slang that no one says anymore 😭

  26. Fine_Mobile_5450 Avatar

    Awesome sauce, word, sick, rad, dude, homie, bro/bruh

  27. OldCheesecake5623 Avatar

    I still say “get with the program Oprah” idk if that was just a family saying or what because nobody knows what I’m talking about when i say it😭

  28. MeghanSOS Avatar

    Please and thank you 🤣🤣

  29. dougola Avatar

    “Cool Beans” is a phrase that has come and gone about 3 times over the past 35-40 years. My kids are using it now.

  30. Levonade Avatar

    I use a ton of outdated slang but what sticks out to me is “Sick” and “Hella” or “Hella Dope” or “Hella Sick”

    I’m originally from the SF Bay Area and now live in New Jersey. I confuse a bunch of people all the time.

  31. JECfromMC Avatar

    In like Flynn. You’re not hep to the jive.

  32. Balthanon Avatar

    It’s not slang, but I still find myself saying “book on tape” instead of audiobook regularly. That’s about as outdated as you get given that cassettes haven’t really been used for close to 30 years now.

  33. Independent-Salt8377 Avatar

    My teenager has informed me that I have to stop saying “hella” because I’m “just not cool”.

  34. random_witness Avatar

    Groovy.

    I’m 90% sure it’s Bruce Campbell’s fault.

  35. MrBinkie Avatar

    I still use a term for cigarettes that is also a homosexual slur . I got sent the naughty corner just last week for using it on here .

  36. slewfootedhoopajew Avatar

    If I had a nickel…

  37. el_cid_viscoso Avatar

    Cool beans.

    I also overuse “gnarly” to the point where I wonder if my Peter Pan syndrome is just me really missing the 90s.

  38. loustarr90 Avatar
  39. OhTheHueManatee Avatar

    I use “dig” all the time.

  40. JLay34 Avatar

    I’m known as the “Right On” guy at work

  41. saterned Avatar

    Cool, dude groovy.

  42. Colorado_Jay Avatar

    I still use dude, rad, sweet, sick, even groovy. Because fuck them kids.

  43. Niffer8 Avatar

    “You dig?”

  44. Funny-Toe-778 Avatar

    Still call anything that plays a movie a VCR

  45. Asidious66 Avatar

    I say “bananas” way too much.

  46. badideas1 Avatar

    I’ve deliberately put “rad” back into my vocabulary. I started doing it ironically, but it’s in there now for real.

  47. fishbender Avatar

    That is so fetch!

  48. efox02 Avatar

    Dope, sick, wicked, dude

  49. Guardian-Boy Avatar

    Cool, dude, totally, and booyah are uttered by me pretty much daily.

  50. ur_daddy_corey Avatar

    I still occasionally say gnarly.. Like totally gnarly!!

  51. DoesntMatterEh Avatar

    I still use “word” and “right on” many times a day. 

    I’m the only one I know who does it

  52. ConstipatedCrocodile Avatar

    “Bunk” it’s from the 60’s or 70’s, around there. It’s used to mean; poor quality, garbage, very bad etc.

    Also I am not from those years. I emerges from the 90’s. Honestly don’t remember where I picked that up

  53. wemustkungfufight Avatar

    I still say “Sweet…”

  54. Puggymum64 Avatar

    My 66 year old sister recently called me a jive turkey. Extra funny because we are Scottish immigrants who have lived in the American middle west for over 50 years.

  55. bwoahconstricter Avatar

    I still use the ‘Re**rd’ word, but only for the president.

  56. Darth_Jinn Avatar

    “Bitchin’” is one I use a lot. Also “cool”, “bodacious” (occasionally). I also agree with the “dude” guy. As a minister of Dudeism, I can attest that anyone can be a “dude”. I even call my mom dude.

  57. kittygink Avatar

    I use groovy in my email sign off

  58. adamtnewman Avatar

    smell ya later

  59. Morningtide99 Avatar

    I used the word “chump” the other day and got a couple of weird looks lol

  60. NewLawGuy24 Avatar

    Hip

    Dig

    Bummer

    — much older fam

  61. meattenderizerr Avatar

    “Your mom” I hit my kids with it daily.

  62. professor_doom Avatar

    Rad.

    Definitely use it a lot.

  63. Groovy_Chainsaw Avatar

    “Excellent” and “Awesome “

  64. TuskenRaider2 Avatar

    I still say ‘peace’ instead of goodbye with some folks. Idk why, just old habits die hard I guess.

  65. Malkintent Avatar

    I call people man a lot. Also, hotdog for exclamation.

  66. oddartist Avatar

    I still call everyone ‘Dude’, and for the past several years, when asked how I’m doing, I answer, “Peachy-keen!”

  67. karenskygreen Avatar
  68. karenskygreen Avatar

    Clusterfuck never goes out of style

  69. zeitness Avatar

    Grew up in New England and “wicked” was the word. Still like it.

  70. BabaDopamine Avatar

    Dope and gangster

  71. DarkOmen597 Avatar

    Groovy.

    But in the evil dead tone

  72. Chicka-boom90 Avatar

    “You’re Joshin me” When I’m in a wtf situation I say Dude.

  73. Flyboy78AA Avatar

    All of a sudden no one knows what “noped out” means

  74. xEnvyAngel Avatar

    i call people goobers, i hit my friend with a “why i oughta” yesterday

  75. IAmGoingToFuckThat Avatar

    Everyone is my homie.

  76. SpaceQueen71 Avatar

    Please. Thank you. Sir. Ma’am. Excuse me.
    Can I help you with that? Crazy shit like that.