{"id":168,"date":"2022-10-28T11:51:48","date_gmt":"2022-10-28T11:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7hillshive.org\/?p=168"},"modified":"2022-10-28T11:59:51","modified_gmt":"2022-10-28T11:59:51","slug":"modern-slang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/7hillshive.org\/?p=168","title":{"rendered":"Modern Slang"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By: Winnie Brennan, Ariana Chaudhry, Avery Clayton, Campbell Coyne, Anika Kakar, and Tess Nelson. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Buss. On god. Drippy. Hits Different. Slay.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Do you know these words? You may hear them in the hallways, during lunch, and around campus, but do you understand what they mean? Modern slang constantly evolves to make new terms and new ways of saying things. For this article, several teachers and students were interviewed to get their definitions and opinions on slang words. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is a short list of slang terms used today:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Slay<\/li><li>On god<\/li><li>Buss\/Bussin<\/li><li>Snatched&nbsp;<\/li><li>Sus<\/li><li>Period<\/li><li>Cap&nbsp;<\/li><li>Drippy<\/li><li>Hits different<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI think I have figured out what some of them mean,\u201d said Mr. Revell, the eighth grade science teacher. \u201cI don&#8217;t even want to say them because I have a feeling some of them are not school appropriate.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Are you like Mr. Revell trying figure out the definitions of these words or wondering if they\u2019re inappropriate? Here\u2019s what they mean and how to use them.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let&#8217;s begin with slay. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines slay as \u201ckill (a person or animal) in a violent way.\u201d Some teenagers today use it to say \u201cyou killed that,\u201d but not in a literal sense. \u201cI think of the negative context of slay,\u201d seventh grade math teacher Mrs. Haskins said. \u201cBut you guys have swerved it to the positive context.\u201d Its meaning depends on the interpretation. Slay is  \u201cone of the more profound words in the English dictionary,\u201d said Salil Gupta, an eighth grader. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A lot of people may think the term \u201con god\u201d means something religious but in modern slang it&#8217;s more like a synonym for I promise, I swear, or I agree. The word is usually abbreviated to \u2018ong\u2019 when it&#8217;s used in a texting conversation. It is also newly used within the past year or two. Don&#8217;t confuse this term with on guard. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bussin and buss mean good. It usually describes food. Here&#8217;s an example: \u201cThat cupcake was bussin!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The word snatched usually means to take something in a rude way. But in slang, it means looking good. The few students interviewed for this article had no understanding of this word. \u201cWhat?\u201d Logan Washington stated when he was asked to define snatched. Salil Gupta responded, \u201cSnatched? No idea! No idea!\u201d This word is not said very often but it is still used by some people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sus. Short for suspicious. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSus is used when someone is being a weirdo,\u201d eighth grader Taye Britt said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sus became a popular slang word from the game Among Us. The word sus was around before Among Us, though it really wasn\u2019t used in everyday conversations. According to Merriam-Webster, sus was used in the game Among Us when \u201ca crewmate tries to guess the imposter and complete tasks before the imposter offs them all.\u201d The usage of the word occurred when Among Us was popular, and people still use this word today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cap\/no cap are more frequently used slang words. Cap means lie. No cap is the opposite, so no lie. If you\u2019re capping, you&#8217;re lying. And if you&#8217;re not capping, you\u2019re not lying. \u201cEven no cap I\u2019ll hear a little bit\u2026I still don\u2019t know if I ever use them appropriately,&#8221; said Ms. Stettler, the sixth grade English teacher. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Drippy means extremely fashionable or to have really good style. You might use drippy to describe someone\u2019s shoes or jewelry. Like many other teachers, Madame Kalubi was confused by the slang meaning of Drippy. \u201cDrippy? You drip? Is this the Urban Dictionary?\u201d Madame Kalubi said.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You might think hits different means to actually hit someone, but it doesn\u2019t. Hits different again means \u201cgood,\u201d according to eighth grader Logan Washington. Adding onto that, the Urban Dictionary says hits different means \u201cto describe something out of the ordinary.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you ever hear this crazy slang during the school day, try some of them out in your daily conversations even if you&#8217;re unsure of how they work or what they mean. \u201cThere are few things as embarrassing as when old people try to use [slang] words right,\u201d said Mrs. Neidlein-Dial, the eighth grade social studies teacher. After reading this article, hopefully you might have learned a thing or two about modern day slang words. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just don\u2019t use them around your English teacher. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By: Winnie Brennan, Ariana Chaudhry, Avery Clayton, Campbell Coyne, Anika Kakar, and Tess Nelson. Buss. On god. Drippy. Hits Different. Slay.&nbsp; Do you know these words? You may hear them in the hallways, during lunch, and around campus, but do you understand what they mean? Modern slang constantly evolves to make new terms and new ways of saying things. 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