- If you aren't using at least some of the 2000s slang, what do you even say?
If you haven’t seen 2000s Slang That You Should Totes Use: Part one, follow the link to read it. This is part two.
Showrooming
A showroom is a place where you can purchase things that are displayed, things like appliances or a car and the term showroom dates back to 1616. After someone added -ing to showroom in 2009, it became showrooming or going to a store to check out merchandise before buying it online, where the price is usually less expensive.
Turnt
If you’re really drunk, like very, very drunk, than this word applies to you. It was often found in the rap and hip-hop scene of the mid-2000s. You should totes use turnt in your everyday vocabulary.
Totes
This slang is credited to the Millennials and instead of saying totally, you can say “very” and “extremely” was first used as an intensifier like “Totes ready for the work week to be over.” We use totes instead of using words like totally or completely. You should totes use totes and if you’re not, you’re totes missing out.
Unfriend
Technically the first time the word unfriend was used dates back to Thomas Fuller’s 1659 book The Appeal of Injured Innocence. The passage reads “I Hope, Sir, that we are not mutually Un-friended by this Difference which hath happened betwixt us” We saw it emerge again in 2003 after a member of Usenet group used it referring to “removing a person from a list of friends or contacts on a social networking site.” Defriend, on the other hand, came later in 2004.
Hyphy
The word hyphy means extremely rowdy, excited and energetic but clearly it could have came from the word hype or hyper. The word really pops up first in the title of Lil Jordan’s 2002 song.
Amazeballs
You can say amazeballs when you want to say cool, awesome or even sweet. The term debuted when YouTuber Jessica of Jessica and Hunter declared that a part the duo had gone to the night before was “amazeballs.” Some take the ‘balls a bit further’ with exhaust balls and starveballs and they’re even in the Oxford English Dictionary, even though they have not caught on. You should totes use amazeballs.
Badonkadonk
This word started as a thing when it was first used in the song, “Da Ba Dunk Song.” Green offers a question mark before commenting that the term might be “echoic of the buttocks slapping a hard surface” or whatever that means.
Mukbang
This word comes from two Korean words, muk being “to eat” and bang as a shortened version of “bangsong” or broadcast. Putting it together makes a mukbang a video of a person eating a lot of food while also being very chatty.
Nang
No one really knows where this British slang term comes from though it’s used as “a general term of approval: good, excellent, cool” and it was first seem on the BBC’s website in 2002.
Are you planning on a Mukbang anytime soon? What would you eat if you had a 10,000 or 20,000 calorie budget? Let me know in the comments!