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Hip is a slang for fashionably current [1] and in the know. To be hip is to have "an attitude, a stance" in opposition to the "unfree world", [2] or to what is square or prude. Being hip is also about being informed about the latest ideas, styles, and developments. [3] Hip, like cool, does not refer to one specific quality. What is considered ...
Unattractive man [5] alarm clock Chaperone [5] alderman Man's pot-belly or simply a prominent belly of a man; see bay window [7] alibi Box of flowers or candy [5] all to the good Everything is all right [8] all wet Erroneous idea or individual e.g. "He's all Wet" [6] alley worker A woman thief who robs men in alleys [8] and how! I Strongly ...
Believed to be a variation of another word such as "jeez", "Jesus", or "shit". First used in 1955 as a word to express "disappointment, annoyance or surprise". [30] [129] [130] shook To be shocked, surprised, or bothered. Became prominent in hip-hop starting in the 1990s, when it began to be used as a standalone adjective for uncontrollable ...
As a mom of a college-age young man who is applying to college (he’s an 18-year-old who is still catching up from pandemic-induced scholastic and social challenges), the lived experiences I have ...
The 21st-century hipster is a subculture (sometimes called hipsterism). [1] [2] Fashion is one of the major markers of hipster identity. [3]Members of the subculture typically do not self-identify as hipsters, [1] and the word hipster is often used as a pejorative for someone who is pretentious or overly concerned with appearing trendy.
Jive talk, also known as Harlem jive or simply Jive, the argot of jazz, jazz jargon, vernacular of the jazz world, slang of jazz, and parlance of hip [1] is an African-American Vernacular English slang or vocabulary that developed in Harlem, where "jive" was played and was adopted more widely in African-American society, peaking in the 1940s.
Gen Alpha is defined as the group of people born between 2010 and 2024, succeeding Gen Z, who were born between the late 1990s and early 2010s, following millennials.
With the start of the 2024-2025 school year rapidly approaching, the T&C editors were curious to find out what exactly the cool kids are shopping these days. We surveyed about 20 undergraduate ...