Are you using the latest slang or are you just reheating nachos?
Call it a check-up, an EOFY overview, gauging the latest in our language.Chopped, say, does more than describe julienned carrots. Ask Gen-Z, and the word means ugly or undesirable (“girl, that mohair jacket is chopped”). Just as cooked isn’t what’s done with the carrots but slang for exhausted or doomed.Poor Shrek’s name has been appropriated by the manosphere: “shrekking” is dating someone of lower status or lesser looks to hold the relationship’s upper hand.Old hat, you may say.
- ▪Call it a check-up, an EOFY overview, gauging the latest in our language.Chopped, say, does more than describe julienned carrots.
- ▪Ask Gen-Z, and the word means ugly or undesirable (“girl, that mohair jacket is chopped”).
- ▪Just as cooked isn’t what’s done with the carrots but slang for exhausted or doomed.Poor Shrek’s name has been appropriated by the manosphere: “shrekking” is dating someone of lower status or lesser looks to hold the relationship’s upper ha
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