# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2020, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-fire/917619/21 "2020-08-09T14:31:31Z")
You’re all sick. (That’s a good thing, isn’t it?) ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2020, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-fire/917619/22 "2020-08-09T15:23:24Z")
My unhipness is truly vast. Never heard of lowkey, fire, fetch, or mood as explained above. But my zoot suit has a reet pleat. ---
**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, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-fire/917619/23 "2020-08-09T15:39:30Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > fetch This one’s a joke, from the movie “Mean Girls”. ---
**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, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-fire/917619/24 "2020-08-09T17:40:20Z")
Or then there’s the usage “I lowkey think that Tom Hiddleston is totally hot”. But thanks, it hadn’t occurred to me that it referred to a dirty little secret. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2020, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-fire/917619/25 "2020-08-09T18:55:59Z")
Pretty sketchy, if you ask me. ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2020, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-fire/917619/26 "2020-08-09T18:56:54Z")
“Fire” is on fleek. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2020, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-fire/917619/27 "2020-08-10T19:15:00Z")
The (ersatz) creators of “Fyre Festival” asked all their investors to promote the use of “Fyre” as a synonym for "Great"or “Wonderful” in social media. I want to say that was 2016-ish? Anyway it caught on in certain circles despite the festival turning out to be an absolute boondoggle. Now, when I hear someone say “That’s fire” all I hear is “It’s probably fraudulent.” ---
**Author:** ![ISiddiqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/97f17d/32.png) [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2020, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-fire/917619/28 "2020-08-10T21:35:09Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > I’d say it’s been a viable slang word for “really great” for 3-4 years now, at least. Far longer than that. Just looked it up on Urban Dictionary and the top definition stems from 2007. [Urban Dictionary: Thats Fire](https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Thats%20Fire). As for fire, #4 definition comes from 2005 > **[Urban Dictionary: Fire](https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Fire)** > > Something that is really good, amazing, crazy(in a good way) ---
**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 11, 2020, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-fire/917619/29 "2020-08-11T02:19:11Z")
Well, that explains why my resident experts don’t know it. It’s so five minutes ago. ---
**Author:** ![Novelty\_Bobble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Novelty\_Bobble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Novelty_Bobble)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2020, 7:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-fire/917619/30 "2020-08-11T07:43:07Z")
sounds totally mexico and well futile! ---
**Author:** ![Bookkeeper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bookkeeper/32/281_2.png) [@Bookkeeper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bookkeeper)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2020, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-fire/917619/31 "2020-08-14T05:02:47Z")
And a drape shape? ---
**Author:** ![si\_blakely](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@si\_blakely](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/si_blakely)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2020, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-fire/917619/32 "2020-08-14T05:22:06Z")
In the early 2000s I happened to meet a guy who was really into beatboxing. I have no interest in Hiphop or beatboxing or anything like that - I’m a rock and blues guy. He was running a forum for beatboxers, and was having some technical issues, so I helped him out by restoring and rebuilding the database. Sometime later, I helped him migrate the entire forum to a new hosted service - there was a fair amount of technical work involved, and we finally cut over the DNS entry on a friday evening. About an hour later, I’m monitoring the server stats, it’s looking real chill, hit the equivalent of ATMB, and am faced with > This new server is really **sick!!!** I have about 10 minutes of panic, looking in the logs, checking the indexes, making sure the forums are all there and loading, when it dawns on me … Someone much younger than myself was just really _impressed_, and there wasn’t an issue to sort out … ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2020, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-fire/917619/33 "2020-08-14T07:20:16Z")
When I was a kid, we had slang terms that literally only belonged to our school. We’d insult people by calling them a “dry” or a “barry”. Thinking back on it, it was quite amazing to witness. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2020, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-fire/917619/34 "2020-08-14T14:06:33Z")
(chuckle) I had no idea that usage was that old! I’ve only been aware of it for maybe 3 or 4 years. Seems like by the time certain phrases get down to the common shlubs like me, it’s passé by a decade. Early 2000s? We’re pushing 20 years!!! I think I’m gonna be sick. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![VOW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vow/32/3043_2.png) [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2020, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-fire/917619/35 "2020-08-14T15:01:58Z")
Can I still say “cool?” ~VOW ---
**Author:** ![BeagleJesus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5daacb/32.png) [@BeagleJesus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeagleJesus)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2020, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-fire/917619/36 "2020-08-14T15:32:18Z")
I have literally been using fire, low key, vibing and living your best life, for decades as they are all _very_ common vernacular in the black community. I am torn between being annoyed that white folks have inevitably appropriated more of my culture with no attribution and being annoyed that black people are still so separated from white people that white people can literally go decades without ever having encountered these bits of common slang that are used all over the country. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2020, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-fire/917619/37 "2020-08-14T15:44:01Z")
> [@VOW](#): > > Can I still say “cool?” You can, but you have to pronounce it properly. You should never make it a multi-syllable word (“kewel”) but say it with a dark-Ł so that is sounds almost like “coo’”. Any other pronunciation is, well, uncool. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2020, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-fire/917619/38 "2020-08-14T16:07:51Z")
> [@TruCelt](#): > > The (ersatz) creators of “Fyre Festival” asked all their investors to promote the use of “Fyre” as a synonym for "Great"or “Wonderful” in social media. I want to say that was 2016-ish? Anyway it caught on in certain circles despite the festival turning out to be an absolute boondoggle. I’d argue that it was _because_ it was such a disaster that the word caught on. Personally, I would have never known of the existence of Fyre Festival had it gone off with out a hitch. ---
**Author:** ![EnolaStraight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/41988e/32.png) [@EnolaStraight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EnolaStraight)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2020, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-fire/917619/39 "2020-08-14T16:39:37Z")
“This thread is so crash!” _DC Comics’ Impulse_ ---
**Author:** ![VOW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vow/32/3043_2.png) [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2020, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-fire/917619/40 "2020-08-14T16:42:57Z")
That idiot “Fyre Festival” was SO wrong on so many levels, I would have thought “Fyre” (with the dingaling spelling) would have become another euphenism for the infamous f-word. ~VOW [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-fire/917619.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-fire/917619.md?page=3)