The Most Popular Slang the Year You Were Born

[Lenny]

Pretty interesting. I hope this is the right place to post it:

https://www.townandcountrymag.com/style/g9228895/slang-year-you-were-born/

 

[Patchouli]

Who knew? That’s a cool article.
Doh! Weatherman in Baltimore used to say it all the time. Was he just copying the Simpsons? Probably.

 

[Magus]

Nice FIND!

 

[bkt]

I was born in '65 and never heard the term "grody" until the early 1980's.

 

[Lenny]

Nice FIND!

A friend sent it to me in an email.

 

[Supervisor42]

It's perfect for me..... nit-picker.

 

[Wingnut]

"SUPE?!? A NIT-PICKER?!? C'MON!!!"

I STILL LUV YA, SUPE!!! JUST NOT IN THE EPIC F@GTARD DARWIN FAILURE SENSE, AYE???"

 

[Neb]

It's perfect for me..... nit-picker.

Nuke was mine.

I used to yank the chains of people I worked with using the term " nuke- u- lar"

Ben

 

[Weedygarden]

Divey!

 

[Pearl]

Divey!

Splain.....

 

[Weedygarden]

Splain.....

It is the slang from the year I was born.

 

[Pearl]

It is the slang from the year I was born.

But what does it mean?

 

[Pearl]

But what does it mean?

Nevermind, I googled it!! OHHHH!

 

[Weedygarden]

Not sure what it means nor how to use it.​

Divey (as in "Dive Bar")​

FRANCIS MILLER - LIFE MAGAZINE//GETTY IMAGES

An excellent word to describe a bar that wasn't exactly fancy, but was still comfortable, stemming from an article in The New Yorker.

 

[TMT Tactical]

I am one of the "Beautiful people". LOL

Hollywood lingo again goes mainstream with this very-appropriate term for the successful and gorgeous individuals who worked in the industry

 

[Magus]

I was born in '65 and never heard the term "grody" until the early 1980's.

Ditto and ditto. I always heard it as "groatie" .

 

[dademoss]

Dullsville seems right, but I was too young to remember.

 

[Lenny]

But what does it mean?

DIVEY: Shabby or sleazy.
"the bar is kind of divey but the service was good"
An addition to the word DIVE. (dive bar)

 

[Amish Heart]

Ha Ha Drop Dead
(that's mine)

 

[ClemKadiddlehopper]

Hot dog

 

[Magus]

Dude.