This is a pretty new expression, right? I caught it for the first time just a couple of weeks ago, and now I notice it every time it pops up. I had to look on my keyboard to ascertain that it wasn’t a poster somewhere meaning to type “fine” and was mocked for his mistype.
I’d say it’s been a viable slang word for “really great” for 3-4 years now, at least.
I never heard of this until just now. Thank you for reminding me once again of my deep absence of hipness.
This is fierce.
:flees:
Fire is the new groovy. Or tubular.
The one that really stood out to me is ‘that’s mood’
What was that supposed to mean?
I feel you. I get it. That’s hard.
So the lil’wrekker tells me.
You really vibing. Living your best life.
(I haven’t heard of fire, and neither have my resident experts. ‘Lit’ is a thing though)
That’s fire = That’s so fetch.
Yup. I first remember hearing it in 2017.
Do they say it that way now? I’ve always heard something referred to as “a mood.” Or just “mood” as a sentence by itself. Not trying to be pedant–I’m just curious if usage has changed.
When I first encountered people calling things “a mood,” I had the complete wrong idea. I thought it meant something more like “unfortunate” or even something close to calling the person “moody.” Usually I just pick up on slang from context, so this was weird to me that I’d had it wrong for quite a long while until someone spelled it out.
Also, I think they used to always write it as MOOD, with capital letters, but that seems to have changed.
Perfectly cromulent usage. The possible ways to use various words constantly is being embiggened.
I don’t get out amongst the teenage/young adults much. All I have to go on is the lil’wrekkers explanation of such things.
If you ask her she hasn’t been anywhere in years, so as she just said to me “Ma, I don’t know what these young people say anymore!” (She’s 21, btw, and quarantined since March, a lifetime).
Frankly, I’m disappointed more people haven’t adopted neato-torpedo into their vocabulary.
I quit worrying about being hip right around the time I started worrying about breaking one. It’s all about priorities.
“That’s mood” sounds very strange to me, but it reminds me of something my mother used to say–same meaning, two different ways: “I’m not in a mood” and “I’m in a mood”.
The one I’m still not sure about is “low-key”. From usage, it seems to be an intensifier, but that seems opposite of what I would expect “low-key” to mean.
It’s distinct from the standard English adjective low-key. The slang term lowkey, usually spelled without the hyphen in this sense, is supposed to be an adverb meaning “secretly.” But if it were really a secret, they wouldn’t be talking about it all over the Internet, so “pseudo-secretly” might be a better definition. It’s used to talk about guilty pleasures, as in, “I lowkey want to stay at home all day watching Full House and eating ice cream.”
You can have logic or you can have slang, but you can’t have both. I still remember the good old bad days when bad meant “good” and good meant “good”, except sometimes when bad meant “bad.”
Stoners have been using “fire” and flame emojis “
” for a while for describing exceptional cannabis strains.