Teens are using slang to disguise what they are texting or emailing to their friends and strangers. Here are a few examples:
Scoop: To pick someone up like at their house
Finna: Fixing/going to do something
Yeet: A way to express excitement over something
Dip: To leave
Mans: A man/person
Low key: To keep something confidential between friends
High key: I don’t care who knows
Gualla: Money
Rn: Right now
Slick: Cool
Geekin: Laughing too hard and too loud
Bet: Something is going to happen
Curve: To reject someone romantically
Salty: Talking in a sassy or bitter way
WYA: Where are you?
WYD: What are you doing?
LYAAF: Love you as a friend
NC: No comment
123: I agree
Hmu: Hit my line; call or text me, I’ll be waiting
GOMB: Get Off My Back
KOTL: Kiss On The Lips
Huggle: Hug and snuggle
Ship: Abbreviation for relationship
IDEK: I don’t even know
IKR: I know, right?
SMH: Shaking my head
LOML: Love of my life
Thirsty: Desperate, impatient, or overly eager
Dime: On an approval scale of 1-10; dime is a very attractive person
Fam: Very good friend
Basic: Someone or something is ordinary or boring
Woke: Awareness of current affairs or social issues (i.e., That girl is so woke 24/7.)
Savage: When a person speaks or acts bluntly or without a filter in public
Gucci: Very impressive
Bread: Future money
Clap Back: Response to an insult with an equal or greater insult
Deadass: I am serious
Facts: I agree with what you are saying
Finesse: To steal
Big Mad: Very mad
Nunya: None of your business
Periodt: I agree with what you are saying, confirming a statement or fact
Real one: Valid person - someone you trust
Secure(d) the bag: Money received
Smacks: A tasty treat
Snack: A person who looks good
Sus: Suspicious or shady
Take the L: Willingly making a sacrifice or losing
Tea/Spill the Tea: Gossip
Slaps: Of high quality
Tweakin: Overreacting
Tryna: Trying to
Risky/illegal
Af: As f***, used to mean “extremely”
121: Let’s chat in a private message
Pods: For your Juul (vape)
Clouds: The vapor from your vape
F2F: Offering to video chat or meet in person
LMIRL: Let’s meet in real life
1174: Invitation to meet at a particular place, often for a wild party
Code 9, 9, CD9: parent are nearby
WTTP: Want to trade pictures?
S2R: Send to Receive (pictures)
Sugarpic: Refers to a suggestive or erotic photograph
TDTM: Talk dirty to me
THOT: That h** over there
FML: f*** my life
KMS, KYS: Kill myself, kill yourself
TBH: To Be Honest (a candid compliment or an insult may follow)
Shade: Refers to “threw shade” or “throwing shade,” to put someone down.
A3: Anytime, anywhere, anyplace
Blow: Cocaine
Pearls: A nicely rolled blunt
Bud: Marijuana
Tree: Marijuana (i.e., Looking for tree, got any?)
Dabbing: Concentrated doses of marijuana (began as a dance craze)
420: Marijuana or let’s get high
DOC: Drug of choice
Yayo: Cocaine
Baseball: Crack Cocaine
Skrill: Money
CID: Acid
E: Ecstasy
Hazel: Heroin
Pharming: Getting into medicine cabinets to find drugs to get high on
Pox: Opium
Robo-tripping: Consuming cough syrup to get high
Tweaking: High on amphetamines
White Lady: Cocaine; heroin
Wings: Cocaine; heroin
Speed, crank, uppers ,Crystal or Tina: Meth
Captain Cody, Cody, schoolboy: Codeine with Robitussin or Tylenol
Percs: Percocet/Percodan
Rids, ritties, skippy, skittles, study buddies: Ritalin
Black beauties, truck drivers, wakeups: Adderall
Crackie: Someone who juuls/smokes
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