Millennial and Gen-X Guess Each Other's Slang

[@BlackJar72]

I'm gen X, born in 1972, and never heard of "soup to nuts" or "the penny drop" -- there might be a regional aspect. What's interesting is how many "gen X" idioms are not really from gen X that were around for ages but somehow were forgotten within a generation.

[@JillMaurer]

Yes. Many of the phrases I used that Sarah didn't understand were from my mother's and grandmother's time. It was interesting to me that she had never heard them. It may also have to do with region. xoxo

[@charlesw.dixonjr.1490]

I never heard soup to nuts or the penny drop either lol and I am sure we differ from region to region and even ethnically on a lot of phrases

[@catcookie6726]

Same here. I think those might be Boomer slang.

[@moreodat479]

i know the penny drop and i´m not american it is used in other english speaking countires too uh countries

[@Fairymoon71]

I have no idea what gen x talking about...I was born 1971. But weird...

[@angiepublicovet510]

Waited for " gag me with a spoon" and " twist my rubber arm"

[@bigclickco.lisaraehsler810]

Jill Maurer is using words from her parents and older. Not really gen x.

[@JillMaurer]

I start out with older sayings and then move into Gen X. These early ones were sayings I heard from my parents and still use.

[@duranfamily291]

Yes she’s like totally BOGUS, fer sure!

[@MarmaladeINFP]

GenXers had a multigenerational cultural literacy. We grew up watchng reruns of the tv shows and movies that were watched by our parents and grandparents. We didn't grow up having our own separate media devices.

[@unacceptablesisterpeter3431]

I recognized them all. I'm a late x-er

[@jamesbrayton2730]

yes, many of them are more old school then Gen X

[@og-greenmachine8623]

“Drop a dime” Is not a generation X expression This expression comes from the 40s or 50s means to RAT out on somebody I.e. I had the case baked but this guy Dimed me out

[@davidsmythe7645]

Yeah that was a hand me down from the boomers

[@RickNuthman]

Yeah, usually for ratting out. Besides, in the 80s calls were a quarter. Lol

[@jimflagg4009]

I think that is a prison reference right? If you are doing 10 years but turned state evidence you could drop the 10 years.

[@audience2]

Haven't heard her say any Gen-X phrases yet.

[@deegreatest6867]

It refers to *payphones* and is a way of hinting that you’re gonna call the cops by putting a dime in the pay phone to call the cops payphones used to cost a dime IN THE 60s a quarter in the 80s So if someone told on you or betrayed you in some way you could say “mike dropped a dime on me” meaning that he sold you out by revealing your business

[@jenniferh189]

Gen X-er here, a little surprised about "dropping a dime" because pay phone calls were always a quarter when I was a kid.

[@JillMaurer]

Ha! I remember them as a dime, but they did go up to a quarter. I think went up to a quarter quicker in more expensive places to live like NYC. xoxo

[@jenniferh189]

@@JillMaurer Haha, that must be it, I grew up in the Los Angeles area :-). Good times. Remember my mom using the call boxes on the side of the highway when we had a flat tire!

[@greglee3487]

Travis Triitt song “ here’s a quarter, call someone who cares “ lol

[@nowthatsjustducky]

Around here, they went from a dime to a quarter in 1981 or 1982.

[@jenniferh189]

same! call boxes! we had a flat leaving Griffith Observatory, thank goodness for callboxes

[@denisewhite11385]

Take a chill pill

[@JillMaurer]

Ha! Yes!! xoxo

[@engineer4god470]

I'm a milennial born in 1991 and I didn't know most of the milennial slang but I did recognize most of the Gen X and earlier slang. It's probably because I paid more attention to my Boomer parents growing up than my peers.

[@Millennialbybirthgexbyheart]

Same. I was born in 95 and recognize more of the gen X slang here...

[@DWilliam1]

As an older Gen X I used terms like “smoking hot”, “slamming” which all mean a super hot chick, “killer” which means awesome, “Herb” which is a nerd, “Jack you up” which means to kick someone’s ass, “Mexican stand off” which means two fools not knowing how to finish or end something, “jury rig” which means you fixed something or put something together so it works but not put together the right way. I have a ton more.

[@JillMaurer]

All great examples! xoxo

[@lornacharles5380]

Totalling AWESOME

[@TheRealJessicaValerio]

It’s not Jury Rig. The expression is Jerry Rig.

[@n.d.m.515]

​@@TheRealJessicaValeriono its to McGuyver something out of gum and wrapper.

[@spondoolie6450]

Hell yeah, someone else that knows what herb means

[@ionichi]

"Valley Girl" and "Fast Times at Ridgemont High"

[@JillMaurer]

Yessss!!

[@nowthatsjustducky]

As well as Valley Girl from the Zappas...

[@og-greenmachine8623]

“The Whole 9” Is a generation X expression for: “soup to nuts“

[@nowthatsjustducky]

Or the whole 9 yards?

[@karebear395]

The whole enchilada!!! 10 points! I like y'alls answers too!

[@angelarocke5164]

As a fellow Gen Xers I agree. I’m gonna be honest and say a lot of these things almost sound baby boomers instead of Gen x...I was raised by my grandmother and I still didn’t know after these things she said what they meant.

[@syvajarvi2289]

The whole 9 is short for whole 9 yards, which is from WW2. The ammo belts were 9 yards long in air craft…. So basically giving it your all if you are going the whole 9 yards.

[@barbaramatthews4735]

I'm turning 52 and I never heard "the penny dropped" "Like, Oh my gawd, that is sooo groody. Totally, gag me with a spoon."

[@JillMaurer]

I'm trying to recall who said "the penny dropped" the most when I was younger. It may have been a teacher. Oh like we are like responsible for the like thing. Like totally. xoxo

[@CW-yj8ce]

Barbara Matthews I’m 52 and also don’t know these but I’m from NYC. I relocated to FL and they have local slang that is common here I never heard of.

[@dsk71]

Like away!

[@teeramirez464]

Lol like you’re totally awesome!

[@jamesbrayton2730]

I'm 50 and the penny dropped, never heard of it

[@RachelLWolfe]

I used the term "smoking gun" during a conversation with a Gen Z coworker one time, and he had no idea what that meant. I had to explain it to him. This happened quite frequently with a lot of things I thought were commonly known by everyone.

[@RachelLWolfe]

@Luke5100 I didn't either. He always made it a point to remind me that he was much younger than me, so he didn't know all these "old school" phrases.

[@heatherbethyname]

A lot of this really isn’t Gen X slang. Lol! I’ve heard a couple of those saying from boomers, but that’s not our slang. 🤷🏼‍♀️

[@JillMaurer]

The terms in the beginning were things my mother and grandmother used to say and Sarah had never heard them. Later we get into gen x and millennial slang.

[@Hottiehoes]

Dude I’m looking at this lady and I’m going what in the hell is she talking about ..😂 I’ve never said one of those things I think I’ve heard them once or something but I never said any of them And nobody I know has LOL

[@tupacamaruiv5804]

I’m sure you have done your penance for “don’t have a cow man”.

[@winterishere3298]

Corney white women talk, some appropriated by Millenials/Gen Z from Black people…#culturevultures

[@SuperSampson77]

Word, most her slang was boomer sayings.

[@74artgrrl]

This video is the bomb. It’s dope. It’s wicked awesome. What Eva!

[@JillMaurer]

Ha! Thanks you so much Ms. Bunker, Oh Aahchie!!

[@basarank1]

I'm gen x and I haven't heard some of your "gen x" expressions. They may be regional.

[@JillMaurer]

Maybe. Spinning brodies definitely seems to be. xoxo

[@Hawkeye-ef4xf]

I always said "Drop a dime" is ratting on someone.

[@JillMaurer]

It definitely appears that I was in the minority! xoxo

[@catcookie6726]

That's what I knew it as too!

[@DevinMacGregor]

It was in a lot of crime dramas then. An informant would drop a dime to alert a detective that Johnny and his gang were on the move, that the deal was going down.

[@jamesbrayton2730]

dropping a dime is the hood version, ratting someone out

[@CineplexPlayhouse]

Funny, I just left a comment saying the same thing. Good, I’m not crazy.

[@brucelee5576]

OK I'm Gen X 1976 , and don't know what the heck either of them are saying,

[@JillMaurer]

Ha!

[@introvertbtsgirl220]

I was born in 1971 and I understood tons of the Milennial slang. For instance, I stan BTS. Most of the terms Jill used really seemed to be more Boomer or Silent Generation slang. Gen X slang are thing like "mint". I did understand a lot of Jill's slang, but it was very older gen.

[@nannettefreeman7331]

Gen X raised by my Silent Gen grandparents in SoCal/LA. Most of the idioms Jill uses, I heard from them. In pursuit of accuracy & inclusion, I've compiled a more comptehensive list. Late 60s: Grody, hippy, flower power, kegger, groupie, marvy, drag, wheelie, freak flag, Grinch, sock it to me, freak out, bippy, mondo,, groovy, can you dig it? out of sight, ew, Spacey, nam, hip, square. Early 70s: Dorky, newbie, keep on truckin', deadhead, trifecta, the man, guilt trip, retro, woke, carbo, space cadet, Watergate, dream on, lude, motorhead, moded, gotcha, psyche, bad, mind-blowing, baked, detox, downsize. Late 70s: Hardball, 'tude, boogie, right on, brick house, brewski, pig out, snotty, ditz, do me solid, nostalgia-fest, def, get down, catch you on the flip side, pump iron, workaholic Early 80s: Chill out, take a chill pill, frizzy, cred, gnarly, buff, b-boy, rad, gag me with a spoon, yuppie, preppy, beat box, major, like, y'know, geeked, wastoid, bodacious, dweeb. Late-80s: Righteous, tubular, cool beans, studmuffin, McJob, hammered, couch potato, scooch, dis, f-bomb, emo, what's your damage?, head's-up, bogus, eat my shorts, wicked, fly, going postal, trash talk, beatdown. Early 90s: Kewl, geek out, loogie, spam, tightly Whitey's, bestie, trippin, buzzkill, -NOT!, phat, da bomb, talk to the hand, been there done that, alrighty then, booty call, the Benjamin's, po-,po, as if!, n00b, homey/homeboy, my bad, word, yo, retard, gaydar. Late 90s: Whatever, facepalm, all that (& a bag of chips), jiggy, judgy, yadda-yadda-yadda, dig, flexitarian, dude, whassup?, chillax, bling, bougie, ghetto fabulous, infonaut, LOL, meh. Early 2000s: Crib, crunk, whaletail, twerk, burnt, hella, peeps, google, selfie, unfriend, life hack, awesome sauce, friggin, muffintop, barney bag bromance. Late 2000s: Fo sizzle/fo sheezy/fo shodo, on brand, sick, KZbinr, totes, retweet, subtweet, unfollow, nom nom, photobomb, mansplain, salty, sweet, douchebag, MILF, dafuq, 'rents. 2010-2020: Catfish, inception, -AF, BAE, winning, helecopter parents, inspo, YOLO, binge-watch, shook, manspteading, woke, ghost, jeggings, tea, FOMO, lit, clipback, slay, extra, hangry, dumpster fire, Stan, thirsty, beta male, soy boy, basket of deplorables, cuckservative, hashtag, womance, yaaàas, it's OK to be white, red pill/blue pill, snowflake, swagga, throw shade. You'll have to research the meanings/origins on your own. ✌️

[@AHeatedMess]

Jill this is hilarious! I’m a millennial but my husband and all my coworkers are Gen X and this video is literally every conversation I have with them where both sides are explaining our everyday language to the other 😂 and that’s the tea ☕️

[@AHeatedMess]

Also I think “don’t have a cow” is from The Simpsons, and choice was used in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off 🤙🏽

[@JillMaurer]

@@AHeatedMess A lot of millennials think this, but have a cow was from way before the Simpsons. I thought maybe it started in the 80s but it seems it was either from the the 60s or 70s. Choice makes sense in Ferris Bueller's Day Off. It may not have originated there. I'm not sure. One of the great movies to hear 80s lingo is Fast Times At Ridgemont High. I haven't seen the movie since the 80s and want to rewatch it.

[@DISCODAN1]

Or the 411 (Gen x) lol

[@SuperSampson77]

Drop a dime means snitching

[@jenniferlowe4826]

I think your Brody term has been not only called Doughnuts but Cookies... for some reason I remember that... I live in Oregon for my whole life.. lol

[@JillMaurer]

Interesting! I've never heard them called cookies, but it sounds cute

[@chayheretoday9890]

I always thought Stan means stalker fan or overly enthusiastic fan, but yes from an Eminem song.

[@JillMaurer]

I haven't the foggiest! This was the first I'd ever heard of it!! xoxo

[@tennisball6793]

Listen to the song and watch the ENTIRE video, you'll get it then

[@anikadiamond007]

It was. Ppl got that word from Em's song. It is really a Gen x word.

[@LadyJane975]

Thank you for this video. It was so fun to hear the words I grew up saying and hearing. I'm a Gen X'er in my mid 40's.

[@JillMaurer]

You are so welcome! It was such a fun video to do!! xoxo

[@thornbird6768]

I’m a Brit Gen X and our slang was very different 😮

[@OceanluvOC]

I’m a Gen X and didn’t know what some phrases were. My aunt is in her 60’s and she’s so prim & proper like you Jill so that’s why I thought you were a young looking boomer Jill! Compliment because my aunt is amazing. I actually knew more millennial phrases. I’m born and raised in Los Angeles so perhaps that’s why I never heard of most of the old phrases you gave Jill?

[@JillMaurer]

I am a Gen-X but am on the older end so I'm often confused for being a young Boomer. No offense taken! And I'm delighted to be compared to your aunt!! Being in Los Angeles you probably know the millennial phrases before most of the millennials do ... or at least that's the way it used to work! xoxo

[@OceanluvOC]

Jill Maurer I should have said you’re very classy like my aunt! People think my aunt is in her 40’s because she looks so young and not her age.

[@LoboLady2007]

On Grody to the Max!!! Remembered the other phrases to express disgust??? Barf me out the door!!!, Strangle me with barbed wire!!!, and last but not least. Gag me with a spoon!!!

[@JillMaurer]

Oh I remember barf me out! My crowd didn't say "the door" though.And I've never heard the strangle comment. Definitely gag me with a spoon!! xoxo

[@nowthatsjustducky]

@@JillMaurer Ah, the Valley Girl craze. I remember first learning about it on Real People. And I suspect that was when it started to become a nationwide phenomenon.

[@jenniferw6192]

When someone asked for a drag...( a drag off a smoke) the response was " drag your lips acrosd my ass" OR When someone asked for the time, you would respond.. "Half past a monkey's ass and quarter to it's balls"

[@wolkowicki1]

Sorry I am 42 and a lot of the old ones are not gen x at all.

[@JasonBender-mo6qv]

Yes thank you for this 1974 baby yes I heard the soup to nuts I remember 1985 teenagers used to say totally awesome do you remember the word that people used to say in the 70s groovy far out cool videos remember when women are teenage women rich in 1980s they called them valley girls they came from the rich section of California😊

[@vintagecoachcollector]

My husband and I both were born in 1966, and we both were told ALL our lives that we are "Baby Boomers" but in the last two years been seeing now that we're "Gen-X" which neither of us have ever heard while growing up nor up until about TWO years ago! This video was great, I knew most of these we have children in their late twenties and early thirties. Merry Christmas Ladies! 🎄

[@OceanluvOC]

vintage Coach Collector Seems like they keep changing the years of Boomers & Gen X

[@JillMaurer]

Interesting! I was born the same year but always knew I wasn't a baby boomer. We were called latch key kids and then Gen-X. It's like they never bothered to give us a proper name! xoxo

[@vintagecoachcollector]

@@JillMaurer I've never heard of latch key either until about a year ago. I'm from NYC and hubby's from Ohio. We've both always been told we're Baby Boomers LOL, very strange. Merry Christmas to you, and hope you have a great new year! 🎄☃️🎁❄️

[@josephperkins4080]

@@OceanluvOC yeh the guy that coined the term Generation X said we where born between 1964 and 1982.Later people said 1964 to 1981 not the cut off date is 1980.Its like they are trying to erase us

[@josephperkins4080]

@@JillMaurer Gen X is the proper name

[@og-greenmachine8623]

“Ring me up” It’s not a Generation X expression

[@markflierl1624]

I'm gen X and i have no idea what "soup to nuts" is.

[@JillMaurer]

We didn't often say it, but I grew up hearing my mother and grandmother say it. xoxo

[@Mr.Peetersen]

That's a really old person saying Not a gen x saying

[@NOLAgenX]

Drop a dime has always meant, at least in the military, to turn someone in, to tell someone in authority of someone’s actions. Usually the person who got reported would be “who dropped a dime on me?” Really the “don’t look a gift horse in the mouth” goes further back. It stems from The Illiad, when the Greeks offered up the big wooden horse filled with soldiers, and the Trojans accepted the “gift horse” at face value.

[@fionaottley4976]

Aussie version of dropping a dime is to dob.

[@DISCODAN1]

This was fun to watch! I am a GenX'r and the one that really cracks me up (starting like 15 years ago) was the meaning of 'hang out'! When I was growing up, 'hanging out' was going over your friends house to have innocent fun... watching movies on your radical new VHS player or watching MTV on the tube or throwing some balls (baskets or hoops) etc. However I learned back in the early 2000's from my niece and nephew that 'hanging out' now meant something much more adult shall we say. Like totally 3rd and 4th base! Also Funny how "cool" is still used and that has been around since my parents generation back in the 1950's. Later dudes

[@JillMaurer]

Oh my! I still wasn't in the loop with the new meaning of hanging out!! xoxo

[@DerScheisse]

@@JillMaurer Wanna hang out?

[@CynthiaMoon23]

I was in middle and high school 🏫 from the late 90s to the very early 2000s (graduates HS in spring 2002), and hang out meant the former. Now if you put scare quotes (or air quotes) around it, then yeah, it could mean the other. I can see that. It’s the difference between being friends and being ‘friends’ ( dating, but not officially). Teen culture changes slightly from year to year. Also I lived in the East. Trends go from West to East. It takes a year or 2. Things also changed if you were in a rural area or in a city. Info traveled 🧳 much slower at that time. Internet was a modem. Also that could be regional as well. The #1 definition on Urban Dictionary is the former. Context may be important.

[@DISCODAN1]

@@Luke5100 yeah it's strange as you age how words and meanings of those words in the English language change and shift! Hanging out used to be completely innocent and I would use that term with my guy friends lol! And back then it was a little different you know!

[@ronjeffrey8641]

Looking a "gift horse in the mouth" isn't referring specifically to a gift, it actually means, don't question good fortune, if something good happens don't question it just go with it.

[@JillMaurer]

Interesting! My mother used it in relation to actual gifts. xoxo

[@nowthatsjustducky]

@@JillMaurer I reckon it could be both. Who is to say otherwise?

[@mananimal3644]

Kinda goes with”Don’t best a dead horse.”

[@Danny_Copeman]

To drop a dime is the same as snitching

[@WinnieBeeLV]

Mom of Millennials here so they do say “ I Stan” all the time. Drop a dime to me is calling the police and turning someone in for a crime. Although I’m a Gen X’er my oldest calls me a Boomer as an insult. When my Dad would be done or over a subject or a thing he would say “and you can kiss the baby on that” 😂😂 I can remember the 80’s we said “that’s dope” and now it’s back!

[@JillMaurer]

I remember "that's dope"! I never heard "you can kiss the baby on that"!! xoxo

[@amenramuxikllc5658]

GEN X ARE THE ORIGINATORS OF THE AFTER GENS CULTURE. ALL AFTER ARE COPIES.

[@74artgrrl]

Well, that’s dope! Thank you, I forgot that one.

[@WinnieBeeLV]

edith bunker yes!!!!!! 😃

[@justjenna6425]

Same. Anyone younger than Gen X seems to think that anyone older is a Boomer. Like, nope, born in the 70's. not even close.

[@keybored67]

deep laugh when I automatically said "to the max" for the first time in 30 odd years

[@JillMaurer]

Ha! xoxo

[@Bjørdem]

I've never heard of some of these, but this is great. I think the last misunderstood statement of mine to a millennial was "it's raining to beat the band". Lol! My daughter is Gen Z and the communication gap is way worse than my conversations with millennials. Lol! I cannot understand entire conversations I hear her having. Thanks for the great video. 👍

[@JillMaurer]

Ha! I haven't heard that one in awhile!! xoxo

[@YotaStyle]

I swear maybe I grew up under a rock because I have no idea what either one of you guys are talking about LOL I also think people from different parts of the country say things differently. Funny stuff! LOL Merry Christmas!!!

[@JillMaurer]

It's true Yota! I was using more western slang for the 80s stuff because that is where I was in high school and where Sarah grew up. Southern slang is very different. I would have thought you would have known some of the phrases I introduced in the beginning though. They weren't southern, but my southern grandmother and mother did know and use them. When Sarah mentioned "wicked" that is more of a northeastern word. A lot depends on where you grew up. xoxo

[@Bobster992]

This was so funny! I knew hardly any of yours Jill until about the last half of the video! Maybe you and me will have to do a part 2 🤣🤣🤣 thanks for this video Jill! Can’t wait for tomorrow’s!

[@JillMaurer]

Oh that would be so much fun Bobby! Sarah was saying we should do one where a Gen-X struggles with modern technology. She saves me all the time from the mess I make of it! xoxo

[@trinity6180]

Bummer was used in the 60s. I was in California. Back then it took awhile for Cali trends to hit other states as demonstrated by my husband and my family that lived in Nevada.

[@mom0f6]

I'm a Gen X'r born in the early 70's. Many of these idioms, I've never heard before...They are much older than me!

[@JillMaurer]

I still use some of the slang that older generations used, but we definitely also created our own. xoxo

[@genxdude4867]

Some Gen X words and sayings....Dude, Gnarly, just chilling, Stay Rad, Totally awesome, stay gold pony boy, I want my MTV..😁...

[@continuouswave34]

GenX hookup: go get a beer; millennial hookup: get laid. Got to be very, very careful with this.

[@JillMaurer]

So true!! xoxo

[@74artgrrl]

For gen x... don’t forget “let’s hang”

[@JillMaurer]

@@74artgrrl Oh yes!!

[@CynthiaMoon23]

I think the difference is Tinder, not age. There’s also a place in life issue. They find that college culture is a breeding ground for the second type of hookup. Add tinder to that and you can skip the beer 🍺.

[@KensOfficeUSA]

I’m a GenX. Born and raised in the Bay Area of California. I never heard “Brody.”

[@JillMaurer]

It may be a snow thing. xoxo

[@DA-dv7se]

Also a desert thing. We were definitely kicking up brodies in the desert.

[@wolkowicki1]

Bret Simpson used to say do not have a cow.

[@JillMaurer]

It was already an old saying though.

[@stephanieremsen8564]

I was born in 1975, so I’m the tail end of Gen X, but not quite Millennial. I feel that, if this had been a bar trivia game, I would’ve cleaned up.

[@JillMaurer]

Ha! I could have definitely used you on my team if it were trivia night!! xoxo

[@stephanieremsen8564]

Major woody apparently you’re of the generation that doesn’t care much about being absolutely rude.

[@josephperkins4080]

No you are not at the tail end of being a gen x 1977- 82 would be the tail end you where born in the mid point years

[@og-greenmachine8623]

“Don’t have a cow” not GENX parlance It came from The Simpsons

[@JillMaurer]

It goes back to the 60's. The Simpsons used it, but it was there long before.

[@TanyaJo]

Roddy MacChlerich 1974 here I remember it

[@og-greenmachine8623]

Generation X expression California edition “Yeah you’re ready, the most” Meaning: You haven’t prepared

[@dsk71]

Love it!

[@og-greenmachine8623]

“Hold up” Generation X expression for stop talking stop everything Works when you’re in a car if you want the car to stop

[@CynthiaMoon23]

Bit the bullet came from a way they used to deal with pain back in the Civil War time. They’d give them a bullet to bite down on to deal with the pain of wounds, amputations, etc.

[@og-greenmachine8623]

“Blow this popsicle stand” Generation X would simply say we’re about to bounce It means we’re going to leave

[@JillMaurer]

I think "Blow this popsicle stand" is much older but was made popular again in Disney's Aladdin. xoxo

[@DWilliam1]

Roddy MacChlerich As a Gen X’er we used “Blow this popsicle or Taco stand” all the time.

[@lunaslight]

Where I'm from we would say it like "we bouts to bounce" or "we finna dip yo"

[@mananimal3644]

What about when someone left you with out notice? “Did she just jet on me?”

[@og-greenmachine8623]

@@mananimal3644 Yup. Ghosted... Sorry brah🤷🏽‍♂️

[@CynthiaMoon23]

I was in middle and high school 🏫 in the late 90s to the very early 2000s and knew most of the expressions Jill used. There’s a big difference between those born before 85 and after 85. There’s and even bigger difference between 80s babies and 90s babies. The dividing line is access to technology. That said, I’m familiar with 90s slang.

[@reannen166]

Umm, so what you’re saying is that you are a millennial?

[@CynthiaMoon23]

@@reannen166 No, I think that the Millennials begin later, like after 85. Usually a generation is 20 years, not 15. I’m saying I have an issue with being called a Millennial when my experience and the Millennial stereotypes don’t fit me. They really fit those born in the late 80s to early to mid 90s. I have more in common with someone born in 1978 than I do someone born in 1991. When I talk to someone born really after ‘85, but definitely born after 1990, I feel like they’re from another planet. I generally view those born after 1990 as clueless about everything. I also find the way they talk and act annoying. I graduated High School in 2002. My middle school was 96-98, and my HS was 98-02. Still the dividing line between Gen X and Millennial should be technology access and better tech. Tech really exploded in the late 90s and 2000s. Most of those born in the late 80s and 90s were still in High School during this time. On a side note: The culture was very different as well in the 90s.By the time many of those born after 85 or so came of age, the culture was very different. For example, the Internet had evolved from AOL chat rooms to the beginnings of an online culture that would mature throughout the 2000s and 2010s.

[@fakereality96]

Finally there’s someone else who sees the generational Matrix as I see it!!!

[@gunthervanbost3726]

Funny, most GenX expression exist almost literally in Dutch. Not the Millenial expressions. Then again, I'm a Dutch speaking GenX.

[@JillMaurer]

So interesting!

[@fabulousirene]

Awesome video. I really enjoyed. Merry Christmas 🎁🎄

[@JillMaurer]

Thank you Irene! We had so much fun doing it!! xoxo

[@og-greenmachine8623]

“Gross” IS Gen X

[@forestgirl4071]

What about "turn the channel"? Do any Millenials know what this means?

[@JillMaurer]

Doubtful! xoxo

[@terzim5695]

Fun! I learned a lot from the millennial. I'm a boomer, and I always thought to "drop a dime" on someone was to snitch them off. Anyone else??

[@JillMaurer]

Ha! I've heard it that way too. Like you are going to call the police on them. xoxo

[@Bjørdem]

I am a Gen X'er too and since we actually lived in a time of pay phones that cost a dime to make a call I always thought "drop a dime" meant simply "give me a call". Lol!

[@JillMaurer]

@@Bjørdem Me too!!

[@keybored67]

@@Bjørdem Old Gen X , remembers being miffed when it went to a quarter. Remembers complaining about the plastic coke bottles to a stranger and promptly dropping it .

[@Bjørdem]

@@keybored67 Yes I do!!! Lol! I was like this is highway robbery!!! Lol!

[@Danny_Copeman]

For skirt, we used to say rewind or back-up a tad

[@Dr.Dark1331]

I don't know of it was a saying before then but I am crediting the "don't have a cow" to Bart Simpson around 1989 or 1990

[@JillMaurer]

It way preceded Bar Simpson but a lot of people do associate it with him.

[@Dr.Dark1331]

@JillMaurer ok well he was the first i ever heard of it

[@jimflagg4009]

I order a burger with "The Works" and the GenZer looked at me funny.

[@JillMaurer]

Ha!

[@josephperkins4080]

Gonna start back doing that

[@lachanteevans7099]

If ur ex bd say Yeah>you[x] what that means

[@melanieespinoza4193]

I only went to 6 mins and I feel neither of them are legit. I am 48, was born 1974 and have kids ranging from 16-29...and a lot of the Xer phrases are from the boomer era (as others have said) did she ever say, "gag me w/a spoon"? THAT is an Xer phrase that my kids would NOT know...I knew Stan, but no one uses it the way the milenial did...it's derogatory, not to be used on oneself...could have been a great, fun video, if done correctly.

[@RickNuthman]

Gen x here. When I heard Stan, I immediately thought of Eminem.. lol. So I got it right away, but have never heard anyone use it as a slang term. I have never heard the nuts one before. I'm from Dayton Ohio, not sure if it has anything to do with it. We had a lot of local slang. One thing we used to say which I have never heard anywhere else is 'a nutty hook up'. In the early 90s, if someone had on like a cool pair of baggy bib overalls with a sock cap you'd say they were wearing a nutty hookup (a really cool outfit). Hook up was used other places to mean outfit, but nutty seemed to be more local.

[@JillMaurer]

I have never heard that one! xoxo

[@MisterMxyzptlk1972]

Born in Canada in '72. The Gen X slang I used most back then was: awesome, totally awesome, totally, blow this place, gag me, gnarly, duh, for-sure, psych, wicked, gross, and like. To this day I still say like and awesome.

[@JillMaurer]

Great list! I still say both as well! xoxo

[@charlesw.dixonjr.1490]

I like this. A lot of these were used on the East Coast too. Rad, grody and to the max and it had a much to do with movies from Cali and Brody for us in PA was you got bullied or you took a bad fall physically and sometimes not a physical thing

[@JillMaurer]

Oh interesting. I've never heard it used that way. xoxo

[@giorjetw1286]

Wow, thanks again, love this video xxx, 🙂, Merry Christmas!! Love love from my family 🇬🇧🇬🇧 to yours Season Greetings!

[@JillMaurer]

Thank you so much Giorjet!! xoxo

[@charlesw.dixonjr.1490]

That's low key effed up

[@JillMaurer]

Ha!

[@efxnoise]

"Drop a dime" means to snitch or rat on someone, not really a way to say "call me" 😅

[@JillMaurer]

My mother led me astray. I wish I could remember the context. Maybe her life was more interesting than I realized!

[@efxnoise]

Well you weren't mistaken, it certainly means to make a call. Upon futher reading, the claim is that it originates in the 60s, it cost 10 cents to make a call from a payphone, and since they were public phones, one could make a call to police anonymously, dropping a dime on someone. I love reading the history of things we take for granted.

[@JillMaurer]

@@efxnoise I remember when payphones were a dime! I also remember that my mother finally had to get a mobile phone when she looked all over town and couldn't find a pay phone. She was incredulous!

[@QueenNanaEva]

The STAN one I’ve never heard. I’m laughing so hard but I’ve got to be quiet since the grands are playing in the dark. I like bite the bullet, that’s a good one. I like your don’t cut your nose off to spite your face. I think saying shook is weird but I get it. Love you guys doing this. Jill I’ve used thirsty and thought you had used it in the past.

[@JillMaurer]

Ha! I still don't quite understand the Stan thing!! xoxo

[@charlesw.dixonjr.1490]

I almost got the feeling that comes from I can or can't STAND something and got shortened to Stan

[@dsk71]

Whats the plan stan is the one for me lol

[@anikadiamond007]

Eminem, Gen x, coined that word Stan in his song Stan. Not a Millennial slang.

[@TheAngiepangie424]

Very interesting. I was born in 79 & I only knew about half of Gen X slang. Millennial slang I knew the Stan song but have never heard it used in that way. Stan killed his baby momma, didn’t he? Skurrt sounds like fart. We said skeet skeet skeet, know that one? Some of the older idioms are tired to old English. I hope that the Millennial’s still read Classic Literature. At least the big ones, Shakespeare, Poe, Bronté, Newton, Dawkins, Lee, Woolf, Orwell, Austen, Steinbeck, Bradbury, Twain, Sagan, Freud, Einstein, Jung, the list goes on and on! I got in trouble for saying, “that sucks). My great-grandma made the toilet paper doll. But she would use Barbie doll like skipper and could sew and crochet beautifully. I proudly kept the ones that she made.

[@JillMaurer]

I was not permitted to say that sucks either! xoxo

[@tennisball6793]

In La Bomba movie they said,"" lets blow this joint Rosy"

[@CamiMack5616]

Being from eastern Massachusetts, I grew up in the 1980s with excessive use of the word WICKED, for both good and bad... wicked good, wicked ugly, wicked nasty, wicked cool, wicked nice, wicked easy/hard, I'm wicked hungry, I've got a wicked headache; it was used for everything. "Wicked pissah" was often used to describe something that's wicked awesome.

[@JillMaurer]

Since I was on the west coast I didn't hear that until later. It seems to be a big Maine thing too. xoxo

[@LifeofMC]

I always learn from you and your videos. Like i said before, English is not my first language, hence i'm still polishing it and it's quite difficult. Oh, idiomatic expressions and slang words or phrases will be more complicated for me, lol! I love this video! Merry Christmas Jill! Cheers! 🤗😍

[@JillMaurer]

Oh I can see where this would be a very difficult video to follow if English isn't your first language! It's difficult enough to follow it when English is your first language!! xoxo

[@CineplexPlayhouse]

I recall drop a dime as you snitching on someone or telling info about something you shouldn’t have. I assume that may have been generated from maybe calling the police from a pay phone, but I recall it meaning the first thing I said.

[@samanthacrisp9421]

Spinned "brodies" on the dry lake!

[@JillMaurer]

Oh wow!

[@og-greenmachine8623]

Throwing shade and throwing salt are the same thing

[@anikadiamond007]

Shade is a Gen x word popularized by Real Housewives of Altanta - all Gen x.

[@donniearmstrong8390]

I had always heard it that when you drop a dime that means you call the police on someone and tell the cops to watch this person

[@emilypound]

I relived so many great high school memories watching this video :) Fun stuff

[@JillMaurer]

We were probably in high school around the same time then! It was fun to think back and remember what we used to say. We're also responsible for causing "like" to be used every 3rd or 4th word in modern speak, but I glossed over that! xoxo

[@purplepotatolove]

​@@JillMaurer Thanks for giving us like! My siblings and I (1986) started saying 'like' like that around like 1994-ish, when I was like 8. And my mom (1962) was all like, "Don't say like!" but she couldn't stop it. And I could like Like your video bc I like it. I'm millennial but I didn't know most of what Sarah said. I identified with most of Jill's GenX slang and was familiar with many of the idioms too. Probably because of my social life (or lack thereof) more than region (WA, WI, VA).

[@gpaton9643]

Omg! This video cracked my up! You brought back so many memories from the 80’s for me!

[@JillMaurer]

Like ... we were totally tubular ... totally!! xoxo

[@MwariAneni]

Very interesting :) Thoroughly enjoyed

[@sspiderweb]

My cousins from Massachusetts used "wicked" back in the 80's. Like, that was wicked bad, man! I had never heard it before they visited.

[@JillMaurer]

I had a friend from Maine who said that!! xoxo

[@CynthiaMoon23]

They use wicked there still. It’s regional slang which is different than teenage slang.

[@barbaramatthews4735]

the word "awesome" was overused in the 80's

[@melikeetoo]

So entertaining 😂 as a generation X’er I must admit I didn’t know most of the terms you mentioned 😱 I’m shook 🤣! I have immigrant parents though, I’m assuming that would explain it 🤷🏻‍♀️.

[@JillMaurer]

Thank you! That would explain it. I'm sure they have sayings that I wouldn't know. xoxo

[@melid211]

Or what state she lived

[@JillMaurer]

@@melid211 My father was in the military, and I lived all over the place. I spent my high school years in Alaska, but my family is southern.

[@og-greenmachine8623]

“SALTY” Generation X would say I was hollering at this girl and oh boy saw the situation and got salty about it

[@barbaramatthews4735]

I'm Gen X (1968). Salty to me meant something like a "salty old sailor" (adjective) Someone who has a lot of experience at something and has a tough personality to go with it. aka "Old salt" (noun) Then again I am a Navy veteran.

[@ikreer9777]

I thought salty was gamer slang. That is where I learned it.

[@AutumnBeckman]

There are so many of these that I don't know. I was born in '79 so I fall somewhere between your generations. Didn't "don't have a cow, man" come from Bart Simpson? Or did it predate him? That's funny...as soon as you mentioned bounce I thought of the popsicle stand idiom, too. I don't know it from Aladdin, I know it from a friend who used to say it. Fun video!

[@JillMaurer]

You do fall right between us Autumn! Don't have a cow way predates Bart Simpson. I think it's from around the 70s. I'm willing to bet that your friend got the popsicle stand thing from the genie in Aladdin. That is a phrase my grandparents might have said. It's really old. xoxo

[@charlesmills8712]

Boomer here. I'm pretty sure "bounce" was around in the mid 1970's. There were some other similar terms I recall from earlier, late 60's, that had similar meaning - "Bolt" and "Jet" which both meant to go quickly somewhere else. "Bounce", to me meant to go back to where you had come from.

[@jimflagg4009]

I think a Gen Xer phrase would be Sweet, Surf the Web, Wicked, Duh, Owned and so on.

[@dsk71]

How about, I'm fine, Noooot!

[@davidsmythe7645]

Stan sounds like they took it from Understand. Under STAN d

[@DawgMama]

Grody is the first one I heard that was Gen x. Many of these are older, Boomer age (i.e."drop a dime". I was born in 73' so maybe is the earlier xers?

[@anikadiamond007]

Yeah, we're middle to late Gen x. I guess our slang was different. Outtie 5000!

[@bigbufobufo]

This was actually pretty educational!

[@tallterrilaw8646]

Not gen x sorry

[@thornbird6768]

My Grandmother used to use the term Like a dog with a bone 😊 for someone who would not let go of a situation 😊

[@JillMaurer]

Yes! I definitely remember that one

[@raymondedmonds-ob8wl]

I never got in trouble if I was out to late sometimes when parents did go looking for me all they wanted to see if I was ok and if I needed anything then they would head back home and I could head home when I wanted I rode my bike all over the place

[@jamespitt5098]

Stan is an obsessed fan

[@og-greenmachine8623]

“What’s the plan Stan” is not a generation X expression

[@og-greenmachine8623]

“Thirsty“ means you don’t have anything Thirsty means you’re desperate and do too much to get what you want

[@JillMaurer]

Interesting. I guess the same word can be slang for more than one thing! xoxo

[@dcimedic]

It may just be a Philly thing but we would and still do use the term “knock up” ie “why don’t you go knock up for Jimmy to play” etc.

[@JillMaurer]

Oh interesting! I'd never heard that. xoxo

[@tupacamaruiv5804]

Drop a dime as used by Jerry Orbach on Law & Order means someone got ratted out.

[@JillMaurer]

My mom used it long before that show. I'm not sure whether the meaning migrated over the years or my mom just used it incorrectly.

[@smscrapper]

This was a fun video Jill! I only knew a few of the ones you mentioned. One I’ve heard, and one my 9 year old says sometimes is “ship”. I ship that, or I ship them together, as in two people in a romantic relationship. It means like from what I can understand lol. Who the heck thought of it, or how it came about, I have no clue! For all I knew before, she was talking about a way of transportation in the water! Hope you had a nice Christmas, xo Sharon

[@JillMaurer]

Oh wow Sharon! I've never heard of that one. I wonder if it comes from ships passing in the night? I'll ask Sarah if she has ever heard of it. xoxo

[@JoeMartinez_LA_LostSoul]

doughnut was an 80s slang too, we used to do them at all the time... and let's blow this popsicle stand comes from the 50s slang of 'let's blow this pop stand" wanting to leave a soda stand of the day... and what about 'Bogart' .. used in a sentence 'don't be a bogart dude' 80s but I think came from the mid-70s oh yea it means to keep something all for oneself