Vocabulary Spotlight | 2010s Slang

In this episode of The A to Z English Podcast, Jack tests Xochitl on her knowledge of 2010s slang. Transcript: 00:00:01 Jack Welcome to the A-Z English podcast. My name is Jack and I'm here with my co-host social. And today I'm going to test socials knowledge of 2000 tens slang and so here's the first one, social. What does lit mean? If something is lit? 00:00:20 Xochitl Lit means. 00:00:23 Xochitl Well, has a couple of meanings, but one of them is like I'm lit. Is like getting drunk or tipsy, or like under the influence and the other one is like, oh, that parties lit is like ohh it's awesome. It's a great time like. 00:00:37 Jack What amazing fun, exciting. 00:00:41 Jack That party last night was so lit. 00:00:46 Jack OK. All right. You got it. #2, this is right in your wheelhouse though, so. 00:00:51 Xochitl Yeah, this is like right there. 00:00:53 Jack This is university for you right here. 00:00:55 Xochitl Yeah, well, this is a. 00:00:57 Xochitl High school, I think. Yeah, right. 00:00:58 Jack Our high school. Sorry, younger than I thought. #2 slay. 00:01:05 Xochitl Slay. Yeah, this is high school for me. Like sleigh Queen is like it's hard to describe. It's kind of like imagine with someone shows up at a party dressed in an amazing outfit and you'd be like sleigh queen. Go off. It's like. 00:01:25 Xochitl It's like kill him with that awesomeness. Kind of. 00:01:29 Xochitl I don't know if it's. 00:01:31 Jack Do you like to do something or to wear something exceptionally well or to look stunning like you look amazing. There's an example. She absolutely slayed that performance. 00:01:44 Xochitl Yeah, yeah, that's a good idea. That's a good way to put it too. 00:01:47 Jack Alright, #3 FOMO. 00:01:51 Xochitl Beer of missing out. Jack and I talk about this all the time. It literally just means, you know, maybe you're at a party and you hear about another party and you want to go to that party. You're always waiting for the next best thing to happen. 00:02:03 Jack Right. I I suffer from serious FOMO. Like fear of missing out of things. Example, I didn't go out with my friends last night because of FOMO. 00:02:18 Jack Does that make sense? 00:02:19 Xochitl No, that doesn't. 00:02:20 Jack Wait, I'm sorry. I'm I'm reading this off ChatGPT. That makes no sense at all I. 00:02:25 Xochitl That makes no sense. 00:02:26 Jack It it's the opposite of FOMO. I I went out with my friends last night because of FOMO. 00:02:29 Xochitl Yes, it would, definitely. 00:02:34 Xochitl Yes, that's correct. 00:02:35 Jack Yeah. Sorry everyone, I've I've chat CPT. Let me down here on this one. Yeah, because if you're, if you have FOMO, then you have to go. 00:02:45 Xochitl Yes, if you have phone or you can't miss. 00:02:47 Xochitl Out on an opportunity to go out. 00:02:49 Jack Yeah, if you if you don't go out and you stay home, you're suffering from serious FOMO, like fear of missing out, OK? 00:02:59 Jack #3 squad, like your squad. 00:03:02 Xochitl Your squad is your people, like your friend group. 00:03:10 Jack What are you doing tonight? Heading out with the squad. 00:03:14 Jack Yeah, my friends. 00:03:16 Xochitl Yeah, you're fine. 00:03:16 Jack Yeah, my, we we used to call saying my peeps. 00:03:19 Jack But that's like 90s. 00:03:21 발표자 Right. 00:03:23 Jack So cringy right. OK. 00:03:27 Jack So so why are 00:03:27 Jack You always throwing shade at me. 00:03:31 Xochitl Is that one of the one of the OK throwing shade is like taking a dig at someone. 00:03:32 Jack Yeah, throw shade. This is the. 00:03:34 Jack Next one. 00:03:39 Jack Right. Insulting or criticizing someone. 00:03:44 Jack Here's an example sentence. Did you hear her throw shade at him during the meeting? 00:03:51 Jack These examples are terrible. 00:03:53 Jack By the way, I. 00:03:54 Xochitl Know that one does kind of that one works, at least that one is in line with what it actually means. It's just like not the. 00:04:00 Xochitl Best example but. 00:04:03 Jack At least it makes