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frfr ong no cap bro
Anyway don’t start conversations with your wife with “ay girl”
ah yeah, I remember when my son was born, the resident told his mother her eyebrows were fleek
don’t say it to people about to undergo surgery, whatever the phrase is
this happened to me with “pog” just last month. I now say it weekly
Poggers
Only weekly?
But are they Alf pogs?
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Lie
No cap
Literally the dumbest and most worthless gen z slang. It doesn’t save any time whatsoever. Why would you need slang for a very specific thing like lying?
'00s born and I agree with you; maybe it’s because I’m not American, and I don’t understand the collective Gen-Z subculture. I have no clue what these people are talking about. Rizz, cap, fam, and whatever these new Tiktok words are - life around simplified English was much easier.
Slang is for identifying the ingroup vs. the outgroup, not for efficiency of communication.
Especially when “cap” is already used to mean capacity limitation, like a bandwidth cap.edit: I should have looked it up rather than relying on my (mis)understanding from low-quality past conversations, where I thought this was a term kids tried to invent because it sounded cool.
Die mad prescriptivist
“Why do these men insist upon using ‘bully’ as an alternative to ‘ruffian?’ ‘Bully’ already has a meaning! They’re a prostitute’s bodyguard! I say, the English language surely is dying here in the late 19th century!”
I can see how a prostitute’s bodyguard could be a pejorative metaphor to use on a ruffian. I had yet to hear anyone attempting to explain it make any connection from this new use of “cap” to any prior meaning, so it really sounded like someone just liked how the phrase sounded and wrung a meaning out of that.
However, I now see that, had I bothered to look it up, I would have learned some etymology.
In Black slang, to cap about something is “to brag,” “to exaggerate,” or “to lie” about it. This meaning of cap dates back to the early 1900s.
History lesson: In the 1940s, according to Green’s Dictionary of Slang, to cap is evidenced as slang meaning “to surpass,” connected to the ritualized insults of capping (1960s). These terms appear to be rooted in the sense of cap as “top” or “upper limit.”
So, not only does the term actually connect to a meaning I initially thought it didn’t, but it also has a different cultural origin than I thought. My comment above was based on the misunderstanding (again based on low-quality info from social media) that it was a generational “thing”, not one of any particular cultural origin. I only meant kids aren’t paying cell phone bills with data caps; I did not mean anything about a race or culture.
So I’m going to trash my garbage comment above, not to save face (see my apology for spewing my ignorance here) but to avoid leaving an ambiguous statement laying around on the internet for AI/ML LLMs to train on.
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Based
Slaps
I knew this the first time I said “rip” out loud.
Like RIP of a bong or RIP a line? Or RIP in peace?
Rip in rest
RIP in pepperoni
RIP in peace. But now I’ll say it even if I just drop my toast
I forget when I started saying LOL unironically…
I know when it started ironically at least. PurePwnage.
bro
Bruh
Breh
Brom
Brot
Broheim
Jotunhomie
Yo frater
Dude this meme is an absolute BANGER!
Thanks fam
I’ve seen that lassie in another meme. How does on get such incredible eyebrows?!?!
Daisy Ridley
Isn’t that Rey from the sequels?
They’re drawn on with a makeup pencil/waxed to oblivion
skull emoji
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I wish I forgor 💀
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