Vocabulary Spotlight | 90s Slang

In this episode of The A to Z English Podcast, Jack test Xochitl on her knowledge of 90s slang!

Transcript:

00:00:01

Jack

Welcome to the A to Z English podcast. My name is Jack and I’m with my co-host social today and we are doing a vocabulary Spotlight episode and to continue the theme of the last couple of weeks we’re doing 90s slang this week.

00:00:22

Jack

90 slang so social. Are you ready?

00:00:27

Xochitl

Yes, I am ready.

00:00:28

Jack

This is straight up. This is little Jack in high school talking with his friends, using expressions like this first one.

00:00:38

Jack

All that and a bag of chips.

00:00:42

Xochitl

Uh. Cringe. Expressions, in other words.

00:00:48

Jack

What does it mean?

00:00:50

Xochitl

UM, all that in the bag of chips. Actually, I heard my millennial sister use that and it means.

00:00:59

Xochitl

It’s like, uh, if you see a really pretty girl and she’s really popular, she’s a cheerleader captain, and she’s really smart and everything. And you say, man, she’s all that and a bag of chips.

00:01:13

Jack

It’s really a dumb expression. I mean, when I think about it.

00:01:17

Xochitl

I know, I guess. I guess like it comes to when you eat stuff and you have like all that food and a bag of chips on.

00:01:24

Xochitl

Top of that maybe so.

00:01:26

Jack

I think it I think it, I think it just means like a bag of chips are like something good. Like chips are good, right everyone likes.

00:01:32

Jack

Chips. And so you’re everything.

00:01:38

Jack

Even a bag of chips on top of that like.

00:01:41

Jack

Like you’re you’re more. You’re just like Infinity plus one. You know, you’re all that.

00:01:48

Jack

Plus, a bag of chips.

00:01:51

Jack

I don’t know. What do you think about my what’s how does my theory hold up there?

00:01:57

Xochitl

UM.

00:01:58

Xochitl

I don’t know. I don’t that one does confuse me, Jack. I’m not gonna lie that.

00:02:02

Xochitl

One gets me.

00:02:03

Jack

Alright, I I I still I’m. I’m still holding on to. I think like your Infinity, you’re everything. Plus you’re even more than everything. You’re like everything and.

00:02:14

Jack

A bag of chips.

00:02:15

Xochitl

Yeah, I guess I think that that is I agree with that with that theory.

00:02:21

Jack

OK.

00:02:23

Jack

UM #2.

00:02:28

Jack

PHAT.

00:02:31

Xochitl

UM, fat PHAT. That’s a good thing. Ohh man, that’s fat. Like that’s cool. That’s it’s a positive. It’s a positive thing.

00:02:42

Jack

Yeah, right. Exactly what, that’s what the definition here says. Excellent. Cool or attractive? Ah, that’s fat.

00:02:53

Jack

Be careful where you use this one. You know, uh, but uh, my understanding is that this is an acronym that means pretty hot and tempting.

00:03:05

Xochitl

Ohh interesting. I never knew about that.

00:03:08

Jack

I have no idea if that’s true.

00:03:09

Jack

Or not, but that’s.

00:03:10

Jack

What I heard through the Grapevine.

00:03:13

Jack

Pretty hot and tempting. Excellent. Cool. Attractive fat. OK, fly.

00:03:22

Jack

That girls fly.

00:03:26

Xochitl

That girls fly.

00:03:29

Xochitl

It just means cool again, like she’s cool. She’s there. There was a song that would go like, so hot, so fly or something. And that came out in like the 2000s or early 2000s, I think. But yeah, it just means cool. She’s cool.

00:03:43

Jack

I think people still use it right, like.

00:03:46

Jack

Miss floss? No, maybe not.

00:03:49

Xochitl

They but but they I think they probably did like in the two 2000s.

00:03:55

Jack

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Here it just says stylish or fashionable, like fly, like you like well dressed, well presented. Very attractive. Yeah. Fly.

00:04:07

Jack

Cool, yeah.

00:04:10

Jack

All right. How can I do? OK, maybe I should start doing this at the end of every podcast. I should say Boo. Yeah.

00:04:23

Xochitl

Yeah, I know what this means, but it’s hard to define it. It’s like, let’s say that you turn around and shoot a basketball over your head and it goes into the basket and you’re like, yeah, Boo. Yeah. Like, and Kim. Possible bone stoppable. Used to say this.

00:04:42

Xochitl

All the time like like like it just means like he got it like it’s like.

00:04:43

Jack

OK.

00:04:48

Xochitl

You know what I mean? Like.

00:04:49

Jack

It’s it’s such a basketball. It’s so it’s so like NBA related to me in my mind, like when someone shoots a basket, shoots and they and they score a basket and as it falls through the hoop, they’re like Boo. Yeah, you know, I got it. I did it.

00:04:55

Xochitl

Yeah, I agree.

00:05:05

Xochitl

That’s money that both of our examples were basketball related.

00:05:08

Jack

Yeah, that’s really the only place I ever really heard it often, you know.

00:05:12

Xochitl

I heard it in the in the UM.

00:05:16

Xochitl

The cartoon Kim possible. Ron stoppable? Uh. Anytime he would do something right, which is rare, he would go.

00:05:18

Jack

OK.

00:05:22

Xochitl

Boo. Yeah, like.

00:05:24

Jack

Yeah, yeah, I do. I used to say it to my daughter. It’s just like a joke and be like, you know, like, I would do something, you know, like, throw, throw a piece of paper into the basket, into the garbage, you know. And then if it or throw a can into the recycler box, and then if the can goes in.

00:05:44

Jack

I I always say Boo. Yeah, you know, like I got it. I made it.

00:05:51

Jack

OK.

00:05:52

Jack

UM, social talk to the hand.

00:05:56

Xochitl

Oh, my God, that’s so cringe. Jack. That is so cringe it no, please don’t make me to find this one in like, 2000 and 90s movies. It’s like the mean girl. Oh, my God, I thought.

00:06:13

Jack

Yeah, we used to do it all the time because you can see right now the the gesture that I’m making too is I’m putting. I’m putting, like, my hand up in front of my and I’m kind of shaking it back and forth a little bit.

00:06:22

Jack

I’m like, talk to the pain, yeah.

00:06:24

Xochitl

There was a a meme recently that I saw where someone said that we really used to let Mean Girls bully us by saying talk to the hand. Ohh, it’s so crazy. It just means like talk to the hand because the face is not listening or whatever it is.

00:06:42

Xochitl

Cause like we just tell someone to get lost basically, but it’s.

00:06:45

Jack

It’s a.

00:06:45

Jack

A it’s.

00:06:46

Jack

Like dismissing someone, right? It’s like I’m not listening to you talk to my hand because my face is. I’m not. I’m not even listening to you. Just talk to my hand. It’s a very disrespect.

00:06:57

Jack

Cool. Although if somebody did it to me today, I would just laugh, you know, because.

00:07:05

Jack

It would be. You might as well use 1940s expressions. At this point, you know.

00:07:12

Xochitl

Mm-hmm. Yeah.

00:07:13

Jack

Yeah, I don’t know. I don’t think anyone understands it anymore or uses it.

00:07:17

Xochitl

Many people do understand it, but it’s like so cringy. It’s like it’s chuggy, as Jensen would say. It’s just like, Oh my God, it’s really cringe. It hasn’t pulled too far. It hasn’t cycled far enough to just be like.

00:07:25

Jack

There you go.

00:07:30

Xochitl

Like a gag me with a spoon or something. It’s still really cringe to me anyway.

00:07:35

Jack

Yeah, I mean it’s it’s it’ll it’ll someday reach gagging with the spoon level of cringing Ness.

00:07:43

Xochitl

Right. It’s not there yet.

00:07:44

Jack

Yeah, it’s not there yet, but it’s it’s close.

00:07:47

Jack

All right, this one is from a very popular Budweiser commercial.

00:07:53

Jack

And is what’s up?

00:07:58

Xochitl

UM.

00:08:00

Xochitl

Ohh right, it’s just it’s. It just means what’s up, basically. But I remember that commercial everyone like.

00:08:07

Xochitl

What’s up?

00:08:08

Jack

What’s up? What’s up? Yeah.

00:08:11

Xochitl

Yeah, people would still like, well, my sister’s friends would, like, do that joke sometimes, but none of us, like, knew where it was from, I think.

00:08:19

Jack

Right, because it.

00:08:20

Jack

Was a Super Bowl commercial from like 1997 or something.

00:08:24

Xochitl

I’m sure it’s like their parents would do it, like as a joke or something. And then.

00:08:29

Jack

Oh, I’ve got my parents. Joke is coming up soon. What they what they do like? They’re what they cause the. That’s their not their generation, but them trying to do 90 slang is is coming up soon.

00:08:41

Xochitl

Oh my God, cringe.

00:08:42

Jack

OK. Then then it’s it’s, it’s super cringe the the cringiest of the cringe, this one is alright, like the bomb.

00:08:52

Xochitl

Ohh, the bomb. It just means like ohh that’s so cool. That’s so great. Like Ohh that restaurant with the bomb. Yeah. There’s food was really good.

00:09:02

Jack

I still use this one. I might I might, I might throw it in there once in a while just to spice things up. I might say that meal was the bomb. That was. Yeah, I don’t. I say the bomb because, duh, bomb sounds a little is I I don’t feel like I have the privilege.

00:09:06

Xochitl

Some people like you.

00:09:14

Xochitl

Yeah, you’re the whitest man ever is so cringe like I say being bum because the bum feels a little like. Sorry, Jack, I’m not trying to laugh.

00:09:26

Jack

It feels like cultural appropriation to me, so yeah.

00:09:32

Xochitl

It’s so funny though. No, but you’re such a dag.

00:09:37

Jack

I it’s true. I I, I’ve I, I embrace it. I accept my, my, my, my cringe. So the bomb definitely not cool.

00:09:45

Xochitl

You’re Jimmy, dad roll.

00:09:49

Jack

Why that meal was the bomb. Let’s get the bill. Yeah. Yeah, you’re right. That was crazy.

00:09:59

Jack

But it’d be worse if I said alright, homies, let’s go. That meal was the bomb.

00:10:06

Xochitl

Yeah, that would be work.

00:10:08

Jack

What is a homie, homie?

00:10:10

Xochitl

Yeah, a homie is like a friend. Yeah, basically chilling with the homies. People still say that it just means to the friends.

00:10:18

Jack

Yeah, my homie. Yeah, no, I don’t say this one because I I don’t know. It just feels like I I don’t know. I I’ve never really.

00:10:26

Xochitl

Like if you don’t have home, you have friends.

00:10:28

Xochitl

Like, let’s be real.

00:10:29

Jack

I have friends I don’t really have homies. Yeah, exactly, exactly.

00:10:33

Jack

UM, it’s weird. It’s weird that I used the bomb, but I won’t use homey. Hmm, I should probably invert those. OK.

00:10:44

Jack

This is the worst, OK?

00:10:46

Jack

UM. If somebody said to us put uh social, nice podcast not.

00:10:57

발표자

What does it mean?

00:10:57

Xochitl

Ohh yeah, it just means.

00:11:00

Xochitl

It’s so cringe again. It’s so chuggy and like freaking ridiculous, but it’s just like they’re making fun of us. Like, ohh, they’re being like sarcastic. Kind of, but not really. Like it’s like it’s like the skim milk of sarcasm or something.

00:11:19

Jack

Yeah, it’s the the wonder bread of of sarcasm.

00:11:23

Jack

I mean, it’s basically you just say something nice to someone and then you just totally reverse it by saying not so like like a mean girl in school, like a bully might walk up to the like, you know, not cool girl and.

00:11:36

Jack

Say I like your shirt.

00:11:39

Jack

Not like that. And So what it means is I don’t like your shirt. It’s but you. You make someone feel good for a second, and then you negate it by saying not meaning. I take it.

00:11:52

발표자

Right.

00:11:53

Xochitl

Right. Yeah, basically, yeah.

00:11:55

Jack

But anyone that uses those jokes so that those are those are my parents and and like uncles and aunts will throw a not joke in once in a while.

00:12:05

Jack

And uh, and every time they do, you can just like the the younger kids and you know, the the next the the kids in the family.

00:12:14

Jack

Just their eyes almost roll out of their heads, you know, because we’re just like, it’s so like you said, cringey to, like, listen to a boomer make a not joke. Ohh.

00:12:27

Xochitl

Oh, God. Oh my God. That would be so bad.

00:12:29

Jack

Gag me with a spoon. Bars. Barf. Exactly. OK, the last one is chilling. And what are you doing if you’re chilling?

00:12:45

Xochitl

Chilling we we still use that like chilling with the homies, like hanging out, just hanging out and having a good time.

00:12:53

Jack

Chilling out relaxing.

00:12:56

Jack

Hanging out. Yeah, yeah, I use this one. Chill. We. I mean it’s it’s it’s party. It’s part of our podcast. The Jack and chill.

00:13:05

Xochitl

Yeah, yeah. Can show podcast.

00:13:07

Jack

Right, it’s a pun because your name is social, but you’re also too, too chill is to like, hang out to chill. Relax. So yeah.

00:13:16

Jack

Perfect.

00:13:18

Jack

Alright, that’s our last one.

00:13:22

Xochitl

Oh, OK, that’s a lost one. Alright, listeners. Well, if you have any more questions or you’d like to hear about more slang, let us know. We’ll definitely be continuing this series. So TuneIn next time to listen to Jack question me about 2000 slang. And then after that I’m getting him back with 2020 and 2020. So don’t worry.

00:13:40

Jack

Right, right.

00:13:42

Xochitl

And we will see you guys next time. Make sure to leave a comment down below at our A-Z English podcast dot.

00:13:48

Xochitl

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00:13:57

Jack

Bye bye.

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