# That's "fire" **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 9, 2020, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-fire/917619 "2020-08-09T01:35:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2020, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-fire/917619/1 "2020-08-09T01:35:36Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2020, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-fire/917619/2 "2020-08-09T01:50:47Z")
I’d say it’s been a viable slang word for “really great” for 3-4 years now, at least. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2020, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-fire/917619/3 "2020-08-09T01:54:56Z")
I never heard of this until just now. Thank you for reminding me once again of my deep absence of hipness. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2020, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-fire/917619/4 "2020-08-09T01:57:52Z")
This is _fierce._ :flees: ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2020, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-fire/917619/5 "2020-08-09T02:28:49Z")
Fire is the new groovy. Or tubular. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2020, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-fire/917619/6 "2020-08-09T02:41:19Z")
The one that really stood out to me is ‘that’s mood’ ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2020, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-fire/917619/7 "2020-08-09T02:43:36Z")
What was that supposed to mean? ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2020, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-fire/917619/8 "2020-08-09T02:45:48Z")
I feel you. I get it. That’s hard. So the lil’wrekker tells me. ---
**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2020, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-fire/917619/9 "2020-08-09T03:36:37Z")
You really vibing. Living your best life. (I haven’t heard of fire, and neither have my resident experts. ‘Lit’ is a thing though) ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2020, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-fire/917619/10 "2020-08-09T03:52:22Z")
That’s fire = That’s so fetch. ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2020, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-fire/917619/11 "2020-08-09T04:45:09Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > I’d say it’s been a viable slang word for “really great” for 3-4 years now, at least. Yup. I first remember hearing it in 2017. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2020, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-fire/917619/12 "2020-08-09T04:48:27Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > The one that really stood out to me is ‘that’s mood’ 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. ---
**Author:** ![glowacks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/glowacks/32/5548_2.png) [@glowacks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glowacks)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2020, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-fire/917619/13 "2020-08-09T04:49:04Z")
Perfectly cromulent usage. The possible ways to use various words constantly is being embiggened. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2020, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-fire/917619/14 "2020-08-09T05:15:42Z")
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). ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2020, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-fire/917619/15 "2020-08-09T12:14:42Z")
Frankly, I’m disappointed more people haven’t adopted _neato-torpedo_ into their vocabulary. ---
**Author:** ![Bill\_Door](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@Bill\_Door](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bill_Door)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2020, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-fire/917619/16 "2020-08-09T12:21:13Z")
I quit worrying about being hip right around the time I started worrying about breaking one. It’s all about priorities. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2020, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-fire/917619/17 "2020-08-09T12:26:18Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > Do they say it that way now? I’ve always heard something referred to as “a mood.” “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”. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2020, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-fire/917619/18 "2020-08-09T12:36:47Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2020, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-fire/917619/19 "2020-08-09T13:32:07Z")
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.” ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2020, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-fire/917619/20 "2020-08-09T13:43:43Z")
Stoners have been using “fire” and flame emojis “🔥” for a while for describing exceptional cannabis strains. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-fire/917619.md?page=2)