I’ve seen the skit on SNL with Sabrina Carpenter and it was Fire! I think. Does anyone know what these Gen Z terms actually mean?
I think “fire” is like “awesome”.
Example: my grandson works near our neighborhood and used to come by our house for lunch because it was closer than going home. He would always ask me to make him a sandwich because “your sandwiches are fire!”
Low-key = Kinda
Chopped = Ugly
I thought low-key was “eh, maybe”.
Shows how much I know.
“Fire” is even now a bit dated, I think it has evolved into “lit”. But yes, it’s just as Shoeless said:
My cite: I have an 18-year-old and an 11-year-old daughter. (My oldest is definitely Gen Z, my youngest is closer to Gen Alpha.)
I even find myself unironically using this phrase. I might say that I “low-key love” something; it just downgrades how I feel about it. It’s like saying, I almost love it, but not quite, or maybe I used to love it, but I’m starting to get a bit tired of it, but I am still a fan of it, and so on.
“Low-key” is used of something that one might not want to admit, but is admitting anyway.
“Fire” is, as others have said, very good.
“Chopped” is ugly or disagreeable, as (for instance) a style.
The word that stumped me was “grimes”.
You get a message. “What is your grimes?” It means “What are you eatin’?”
Thank you! This definitely low-key helps.
You’re welcome. I’m sure. 
I’m “fire” like that.
Good answer! ^^^
No cap, bruh. Bet!
Now read the thread title again, but in the voice of Captain Picard ordering tea.
Same and I like the term lowkey looking in particular for things I’m interested in and could probably find immediately but would prefer to find the right one, the right deal, the right opportunity. For example, I do some thrifting & garage sales and have countless items I try look at/for but seldom buy like peppermills and desk lamps &, recently, belts, for trousers. I already have some of all of those but there’s always a better one to be found out there and it only takes a moment to look at, lowkey, all of them on the shelf.
“Dammit Captain, this is the third time this week that we’ve had to repair your replicator. Please stop doing that!”
Why do I hear the thread title in Patrick Stewart’s voice?
I’ve watched that skit many times. So good.
Not sure I really understand the slang, though.
Late: With that said, I do think the “lettuce is chopped” line was intentionally confusing…and funny.
So “the bomb” is just right out of the picture? Groovy, Dude.
Tubular.
… very hot?
(I better bow out of this swell thread - anyway, I got some leafblowing to do)
Mothers of River City, heed that warning before it’s too late
Watch for the tell-tale signs of corruption
The minute your son leaves the house
Does he re-buckle his knickerbockers below the knee?
Is there a nicotine stain on his index finger?
A dime novel hidden in the corn crib?
Is he starting to memorise jokes from Cap’n Billy’s Whiz Bang?
Are certain words creeping into his conversation
Words like, like “swell”? (Trouble, trouble, trouble)
And so’s your old man? (Trouble, trouble, trouble)