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  2. Jive talk - Wikipedia

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    Jive talk, also known as Harlem jive or simply Jive, the argot of jazz, jazz jargon, vernacular of the jazz world, slang of jazz, and parlance of hip [1] is an African-American Vernacular English slang or vocabulary that developed in Harlem, where "jive" ( jazz) was played and was adopted more widely in African-American society, peaking in the ...

  3. Internet slang - Wikipedia

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    Internet portal. v. t. e. Internet slang (also called Internet shorthand, cyber-slang, netspeak, digispeak or chatspeak) is a non-standard or unofficial form of language used by people on the Internet to communicate to one another. [1] An example of Internet slang is "LOL" meaning "laugh out loud." Since Internet slang is constantly changing ...

  4. Urban Dictionary - Wikipedia

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    Urban Dictionary is a crowdsourced English-language online dictionary for slang words and phrases. The website was founded in 1999 by Aaron Peckham. Originally, Urban Dictionary was intended as a dictionary of slang or cultural words and phrases, not typically found in standard English dictionaries, but it is now used to define any word, event, or phrase (including sexually explicit content).

  5. ‘Caught in 4k’: What the slang phrase really means - AOL

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    This is the definition of the slang expression, according to Dictionary.com: “Caught in 4k is a phrase that means someone was caught in the act of doing something wrong or foolish and there is ...

  6. 20 iconic slang words from Black Twitter that shaped pop culture

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    Bruh. "Bruh" originated from the word "brother" and was used by Black men to address each other as far back as the late 1800s. Around 1890, it was recorded as a title that came before someone's ...

  7. Slay (slang) - Wikipedia

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    Slay (slang) Slay is a slang colloquialism that possibly originated during the 1600s, but gained its current LGBT connotation in the 1970s from ball culture. Originally having a meaning similar to "that joke was killer", slay has since gained a definition meaning being impressed or term of agreement.

  8. List of Generation Z slang - Wikipedia

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    When a person or subject is "Cooked" (As an adjective), it's the state of being in any sort of danger, physical, emotional, of failure, or of reputation. Can be used in a similar fashion to "Doomed." It can also mean to have been humiliated, embarrassed, or messed up in some way. Popularized on Twitter in early 2023.

  9. What do teens mean when they say ‘sigma’? - AOL

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    What the sigma? Some know “sigma” as the 18th letter of the Greek alphabet but it’s also teen slang for a cool dude. According to Know Your Meme, sigma is “referring to a supposed ...