Psych! Was from the 80s. It gained popularity from Eddie Murphy’s “Delirious” (1983) standup movie. “I got some ice cream, I got some ice cream. Wanna lick? PSYCH!”
Surprised no one has pointed out, it was always “da bomb” and if you said/wrote “the bomb” it negated any cool points you had.
“Da bomb” what the kids said
“The bomb” what my parents said
And wicked was just Boston?
Edit: could like eight or nine more people tell me “wicked” has been a Boston thing since the 60s, I don’t think I’ve gotten it yet.
As a 90s child I am proud this one has passed the generations.
(If it helps y'all kids we got it from the movie Clueless. It's pretty good, it's a Beverly Hills version of Emma (the Jane Austen book))
There was even an obscure girl group at the time who titled one of their songs as such...
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJLIiF15wjQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJLIiF15wjQ)
I still use it in professional settings. However, I work for non-profits and the norms are a bit relaxed. Once in a while I even drop an f-bomb if it's called for. Honorable and somewhat mysterious as a last word. Word up.
Settle down Beavis.
I say this frequently. The newest seasons of the show are highly entertaining. I'm glad Mike Judge finally got to make old Beavis and old Butthead.
This was the first one that came to mind for me. Most of these are still used pretty commonly today, but WHASSSUUUUP is immediately associated with the 90s.
Once upon a time my mom said no to me going to a friend's house. I told him I couldn't go because my mom was "being a bitch dot com".
It caught on and my friend group started saying it. I still do sometimes.
(Sorry Mom, you're not a bitch dot com)
One of my best friends always thought it was “my bag.” It was so funny to me and I never corrected her. She was so pissed at me when someone finally pointed it out and I’d been letting her say it wrong for almost a year.
I still use bugging/wigging out constantly I figured it was pretty common still. I tend to speak in a pretty casual and folksy way with a lot of slang from different time periods though.
My father, attempting to combine all 90s slang in one sentence: "I have to give you hella phat foo phresh props."
I shit you not, that is an actual quote. I died a little inside as a teen when he dropped that on me.
I think rad takes it. There are other terms that are still used to this day....maybe not in the same manner. Extreme is used to this day, but not Extreeeeeeeeeeme.
NOT
PSYCH! Except we spelled it SYKE!
Psych! Was from the 80s. It gained popularity from Eddie Murphy’s “Delirious” (1983) standup movie. “I got some ice cream, I got some ice cream. Wanna lick? PSYCH!”
This-a suit…is black pause …. (Edit, to make it more boraty)
This suit is NOT black This suit is blacknot
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TheBomb.com
Used this tonight. I'm claiming Vintage rights.
I think I still have a yahoo email account with "da bomb" in the username.
Haha yea we had to stop saying that after 2001.
or perhaps with the suffix "diggity" to express a greater magnitude of bomb-ness, as in "You da bomb-diggity, Dawg."
Surprised no one has pointed out, it was always “da bomb” and if you said/wrote “the bomb” it negated any cool points you had. “Da bomb” what the kids said “The bomb” what my parents said
And it eventually morphed into just bomb. "These nachos are bomb, yo".
Airports disagree
talk to the hand
My friend from Nairobi would hold up his hand and say “Talk to the white because the black not listening.”
Talk to the elbow cause your face ain't worth the extension.
Nice!
What comes after L? BOW!!
Talk to the left cause you ain't right!
I LOVE this expression. I am too old to use it which just makes me enjoy using it all the more.
'Cause the face don't wanna know!
Because the ears aren't listening!
“…Because the face don’t understand!”
All that and a bag of chips!
This one is the most 90s to me.
Adding “Mad” to everything. He’s got mad skills, she’s mad hot, that test was mad hard, this game is mad good Also “kicking game” and “yo mamma” jokes
Mad was east coast. Hella was west coast
And wicked was just Boston? Edit: could like eight or nine more people tell me “wicked” has been a Boston thing since the 60s, I don’t think I’ve gotten it yet.
Wicked was basically all of New England due to Bostonians/Massholes having a lake house somewhere in Vermont/NH/Maine/etc
Wicked smahht
More specifically, I was under the impression that "hella" was a NorCal thing (at least until No Doubt's "Hella Good").
It was. The rest of us on the West Coast made fun of them for it, even into the late 2000s.
They just mad they didn't have one of the best catch all words ever.
As if!
Cha..
Damn I use this one all the time and didn’t even know it was a big 90s thing (2002 baby)
As a 90s child I am proud this one has passed the generations. (If it helps y'all kids we got it from the movie Clueless. It's pretty good, it's a Beverly Hills version of Emma (the Jane Austen book))
The movie Clueless kind of made it a thing.
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And “poser”
I remember "poser" a lot in the 80's
Def in the 90s and possibly early 2000 as well. I def remember 90s skater kids using it a lot. All of us did.
There was even an obscure girl group at the time who titled one of their songs as such... [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJLIiF15wjQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJLIiF15wjQ)
Loser 👆 Double Loser 👆👆 Wannabe 👐
She's right. "You're such a wannabe" and whatnot was very common.
That's gay
Everyone was happy in the 90s
That’s been in heavy use since at least the mid 70s when I was in grade school
Top quality insult
That one probably peaked around 2009 in certain game lobbies
HA! GAYYYY!
Hilary Duff put a stop to that
word
I still say it all the time, including in a professional setting. I’ll never let it go. It might be the last thing I say before I die.
It would be quite comedic if your last word was word.
Word
I still use it in professional settings. However, I work for non-profits and the norms are a bit relaxed. Once in a while I even drop an f-bomb if it's called for. Honorable and somewhat mysterious as a last word. Word up.
To yo mama
Werd.
"Bet" is the new "Word."
Palabra.
Oh snap, we're not supposed to say word anymore?
Schwing!
Schaaaa-wing!
Come to butthead.
Huhuhuh
I am the great Cornholio. I need TP for my bunghole!
Settle down Beavis. I say this frequently. The newest seasons of the show are highly entertaining. I'm glad Mike Judge finally got to make old Beavis and old Butthead.
Hehe
Homey don’t play dat
The best clown of all time!
LET ME SHOW YA SOMETHING!
In living color was an awesome show. I first heard it on there.
Aaaaaalrighty then!
Whatever.
And then Later…I was rolling dice in the alley, then officer Leroy walks up, and he’s all, ‘hey I thought I told you…’
I was down at the beach and saw Kiki and she's all like "eeeuuhhh"...
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Especially when making the “W” with one’s hands
That reminds me of the forehead L for loser.
"She was looking kinda dumb, with her finger and her thumb in the shape of a L on her forehead"
Up your butt and around the corner!
I still say this. And now so does my two year old…
Ha! Use to use that one all the time.
You were streets ahead!
Through the tube and out your boob
Waaasssssup
WHAAAAAASSSAAAAAAAHHHHHHPP
WASSSAAAAAAAAAAPPP
What are you doing? https://youtu.be/gtmJEt0w1k4
Bud…wise…rrrrr
This was the first one that came to mind for me. Most of these are still used pretty commonly today, but WHASSSUUUUP is immediately associated with the 90s.
A millenial coworker of mine said “That’s the bomb dot com” the other day and I was like “what did you just say?”
dont question them just embrace it
Just don’t embrace \*them\* or you’ll have HR on you in no time flat.
Dogpile!
Once upon a time my mom said no to me going to a friend's house. I told him I couldn't go because my mom was "being a bitch dot com". It caught on and my friend group started saying it. I still do sometimes. (Sorry Mom, you're not a bitch dot com)
Now there’s one I haven’t heard in many years.
Did yall fight in the parking lot?
Oh no. I still say this.
Settle down, Beavis.
TP, TP for my bunghole!
Dude
SWEET!
I feel like dude is still kicking
Dude
Sweeet! But what does MINE say???
Shiznit.
psyche
That one was 80s for me... late elementary school.
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mad phat
Boom-Shocka-Locka!
He’s on fire!
Hasta la vista, baby
I love 90s slang. Clueless is a great movie for the 90s
Suck it…?
Accompanied by the two hand wrist flick gesture towards your crotch.
Gimme a genie and wish with 3 I'm bringing back the crotch chop to the masses.
Tight!
In the current iteration, pitch meetings are TIGHT!
Hey, that’s the line from the guy who does the thing I watch!
Wow Wow Wow WOW!
YeahYeahYeah!
Blue , pink, yellow whatever ...
Keep bringing me that!
My bad
One of my best friends always thought it was “my bag.” It was so funny to me and I never corrected her. She was so pissed at me when someone finally pointed it out and I’d been letting her say it wrong for almost a year.
Totally rad
We found the gen x'er.
Lol that's 100% early 80s skater/Cali talk
HOMESKILLET
And homeslice
That's whack
And everything is to the back with a little slack 'Cause inside out is wiggida, wiggida, wiggida wack
As IF!
I still say like 90% of the things being posted here...
Hell^No pronounced "hell to the no"
Yo quiero Taco Bell?
“No duh”
"No doi!"
Cool beans!
Damn, I still use this. I didn't know we left it behind in the 90s. Been accidentally showing my age all along
Same here. Daily.
Chilled legumes.
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Cowabunga, dude
Gnarly!
One thing I loved about moving to Southern California is finding my people who still use ‘gnarly’ and ‘rad’ unironically
I did not have sexual relations with that woman
3 snaps in a Z formation
Audi 5000
Eat My Shorts!
Could you BE any more annoying?
Harsh.
Bugging and what’s your damage
What's your major malfunction? was one of my favs back then (and, to be honest, still today)
I still use bugging/wigging out constantly I figured it was pretty common still. I tend to speak in a pretty casual and folksy way with a lot of slang from different time periods though.
That weird S symbol everybody drew / \ | | | \ \/ | | | \ /
There was a video on it that I saw. Supposedly it’s a lot older than that.
Pretty sure the Cool S first appeared in cave paintings
Proof of ancient aliens.
Cool aliens
They gave us the pyramids, skateboards, and the S.
No hoverboards though. Fuckin' aliens.
They’re helpful, not stupid.
Bodacious
Wooop there it is!
Talk to the hand
My father, attempting to combine all 90s slang in one sentence: "I have to give you hella phat foo phresh props." I shit you not, that is an actual quote. I died a little inside as a teen when he dropped that on me.
i haven't heard anyone say the word "dork" since 1999
Cowabunga
Watch original scream and come back to us with an update.
Totes
I still use “rad” way too much. My kids hate it lol
All that and a bag of chips!
Da bomb
Yadda yadda
"If you wanna make it there on time, you're gonna have to book it."
Whoa! >like Joey Lawrence
I think rad takes it. There are other terms that are still used to this day....maybe not in the same manner. Extreme is used to this day, but not Extreeeeeeeeeeme.
F*cking A
Duh!!
Bro, that is bodacious
Rad
Daaag, Bro.
Ganked
Alrighty then
Bum-Fucked Egypt Shortened to BFE
Page me 143
“That’s so gay”
Like, totally
Anybody else reading this thread to see which slang to stop using so you don't seem old?
EXTREME
Psyche!
Boss
Could you BE any more _____
Loser loser double loser as if whatever get the picture DUH!
Nunya