“Wesh”, “OKLM”, “Thug”, “I’m in PLS”, “y’a R” … Having trouble deciphering your teenager’s sentences? If the “young talk” (and its annual evolutions) seems foreign to you, trust in this updated dictionary.
[Mise à jour du 12 janvier 2022]. Do you speak the “young”? Do you understand when you are asked if you have “jailed“last night, if you had the”seum“or when you hear your teenager sing”because she is Djomb “from Bosh ? The French vocabulary continues to evolve, with each year of new words in the dictionary. You have a perfect command of the 20 additions of the 2021 edition of Larousse. “Remontada”, “emotional quotient”, “hypsterization” and “frugalism” hold no secrets for you. You were sure you understood everything … Until I received this famous SMS : “JPP, TikTok it doesn’t work“, Where “Askip, my gow threw up!”. And yes, in the very private circle of adolescents too, the word is evolving! “Laziness !” he will tell you. The exchanges seem encrypted as they are abbreviated. And nobody (or almost!) Lists these terms for you to decode them. History to stop passing for an “old man” who asks to “translate”, or quite simply to avoid you wasting time to understand the Coded SMS from your teenagers, here is a little dictionary ground. “Askip” this could be useful to you in a young society!
Teenage SMS abbreviations
- Askip: abbreviation of “as it seems”
- JPP : I can’t anymore (to laugh very often, after the lol, lol, lol and ptr)
- TMTC : You yourself, you know
- Tkt : do not worry
- Tfk : What do you do ?
- OKLM: to be quiet”
- JDCJDR : just saying
The new terms for talking about a third person
- Thug : said of a boss, of someone tough, a thug, a gangster … Also said of someone who breaks the rules (without great gravity). Example: “you’re a thug, you passed me in the queue!”
- Bestah : From English “Best Friend”, best friend. This is the evolution of the BFF of the 2000s.
- Boloss : Said of someone who is not particularly quick-witted.
- Cassos : Literally social case. Synonym: boloss, or Kssos.
- Go: a girl
- My gow: my girlfriend, my girlfriend
- A gadji or a gadjo: a young lady
- Fat : you, my comrade
- A hit : a person of good taste
- A tchoin: is said of an easy girl, some rappers use this term to designate prostitutes
- Magl: my friend (my mouth)
- Michto: a liar, liar, is also said of a person who does things out of interest (michtonneuse)
Terms analyzing a situation or a way of proceeding:
- Djomb : said of a person who we find “canon”, beautiful, more vulgarly for some “good”. It is the title of a song by Bosh that popularized the term among the younger generation.
- There’s R: there is nothing
- YOLO: You only live once, the new version of carpe diem
- Soumsoum (in): In a submarine. Discreetly.
- It is downgraded: something that is very very good
- Dar: Brilliant ! In situation: “the holidays are too dar”.
- Crari: kind. For example: “To make crari”: to make like, to fart.
- Swag: said to himself of a stylish person, “he has the swag”
- To tear off: to leave
- Care : beautiful. Ex: “Have you seen my new jacket? She is too careful. “
- Skip cream: may things go well
- Zoning in the tieq: walk around your neighborhood aimlessly
- Belek: injunction to be careful (comes from the Arabic belec)
- In 2-spinnaker: verlan of the word speed, an action that is done very quickly
- Who “takes his life”: which takes time
- To be “cart“: to not have enough time
- Calculate someone: pay attention to someone. Conversely, not calculating it means not loving, ignoring the person.
Various actions:
- Pranker: this new term is widely used on Tik Tok to trap a loved one or a relative in video. In our time, it was a hidden camera!
- Poucave, Pookie: report something to someone, swing
- Enjailler: to get in condition, to party. Ex: “Saturday, we are going to take part in the Brice party”
- Grease: to eat
- Bicrave: to sell
- Ken: away from barbie’s handsome partner, ken now refers to sex (fucking)
- Balec: abbreviation of “to fight the balls”, or not to be interested in something
- To be in I, to be in Y : do stunts on two-wheelers in I or Y
Things of life:
- Moula, moulaga: sorrel, money
- Baye: thing. Ex: “What are bayes? “:” What’s going on? “
- Bif: money, abbreviation of the word bifton (ticket)
- Jaded : coming from the term blazon, the blase designates the name of a person or an artist.
- Charcoal: to work.
- Zdeg: muscular. Fairly localized expression.
- The hess : the loose
- Slime : smoke a joint, a bédo
- Bendo : the city, the district
- A gova : a car
Terms related to emotions:
- To be in PLS: of “lateral safety position”, not to feel very well
- Have the seum: to be disappointed, disgusted.
- Yomb: irritated. In situation: “I am yomb, I lost my cell phone”.
- Hitting bars : to laugh, to burst out laughing
- WTF: From the English “What The Fuck” which expresses incomprehension.
- To be sauced: to be enthusiastic
- Be stone : to be drunk
- I am rapta / I am serious blue: I’m drunk on alcohol
- I ban you: I am removing you from my list (to ban)