Don’t let your kids make you feel old this summer – here’s our handy guide to understanding the latest teenage slang that will have you lol’ing!

WARNING: This will almost undoubtedly not make you ‘cool’, but at least you’ll know what on earth they’re talking about!

Commonly used words and phrases:

• Awks – awkward
• Bae – before anyone else – usually describing a boyfriend or girlfriend, also short for baby
• Bruh – short for bro or brother, can refer to a friend
• Cheddar – money
• Curve – to reject someone romantically
• Gucci – good/fine/okay
• Hench – strong and muscular
• High key – as in this is major and they’re happy for everyone to know “I high key love School Notices!”
• Hundo p – as in 100% positive confirmation
• Lit – amazing
• Low key – as in they don’t want everyone to know, i.e. “I’m low key stressing”
• Netflix and chill – beware – this is usually a front for inviting someone over to make out!
• Peak – bad/gutting/humiliating
• Peng – cool/good, can also refer to someone good looking
• Salty – bitter, as in “I’m totally salty that I didn’t get invited to the party”
• Sic – something that’s cool
• Squad– group of girl friends
• Thirsty – someone that’s attention seeking
• Throw shade – giving a dirty look
• Ting – thing

Text abbreviations:

• BFF – best friends forever
• CTN – can’t talk now – see POS!
• GOAT – greatest of all time
• LOL – laugh out loud (although the more mature amongst us might still view this as lots of love – awks!)
• OMG – oh my god!
• POS – parent over shoulder (used to warn friends when a parent can see their phone)
• TFW – that feeling when – as in “TFW you realise you poured orange juice over your cereal instead of milk”
• YOLO – you only live once

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