“POV”, “OKLM”, “Thug”, “I’m in PLS”, “there’s R”… Are you having trouble deciphering your teenager’s sentences and various expressions? If “speaking young” seems foreign to you, trust this updated dictionary.
Do you speak “young”? Do you understand when people ask you if you are “enjoyed“, if you had the “seum“or when you hear your teenager singing”because she is Djomb” by Bosh ? The French vocabulary continues to evolve, with each year new words in the dictionary. You have a perfect command of the 20 additions to the 2022 edition of Larousse. “Cyberstrategy”, “disclosure”, VPN, “mocktail” have no more secrets for you. You were convinced to understand everything… Until you receive this famous SMS : “JPP, TikTok doesn’t work“, Where “Askip, my gow has poucave!”. And yes, in the very private circle of adolescents too, the term is changing! “Laziness !” he will tell you. The exchanges seem encrypted as they are abbreviated. And nobody (or almost!) lists these terms to allow you to decode them. Just to stop looking like an “old man” who asks to “translate”, or quite simply to avoid wasting time understanding the Coded text messages from your teenagershere is a little dictionary ground. “Askip” could be useful to you in a young company!
SMS abbreviations for teenagers
- POV : point of view (often used on social networks)
- Askip: abbreviation for “so it seems”
- JPP : I can’t take it anymore (to laugh very often, after the lol, lol and ptr)
- TMTC : Yourself, you know
- Tkt : don’t worry
- Tfk : What are you doing ?
- OKLM: to be quiet”
- JDCJDR : just saying
New terms for talking about a third person
- Thug : is said of a boss, someone tough, a thug, a gangster… Also said of someone who transgresses the rules (not very serious). 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.
- GB: a girl
- My gow: my girlfriend, my girlfriend
- A gadji or a gadjo: a young lady / a damoiseau
- A hit : a person of good taste
- One thing: is said of an easy girl, some rappers use this term to designate prostitutes
- Mag: 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 : is said of a person who is found “hot”, beautiful, more vulgarly for some “good”. This is the title of a Bosh song that popularized this term among the younger generation.
- There’s R: there is nothing
- YOLO: You only live once, the new version of carpe diem
- Soumsoum: In the submarine. Discreetly.
- It’s downgraded: something that is very very good
- Dar: Great ! In situation: “holidays, it’s too dar”.
- Swag: is said of someone stylish, “he has the swag”
- Tear off: leave
- Care : beautiful. Ex : “Have you seen my new jacket? She’s too careful.”
- Skip cream: that things are going well
- Zone in the tieq: wander around your neighborhood aimlessly
- Belek: injunction to be careful (from Arabic belec)
- In 2-spi: verlan of the word speed, an action that is done very quickly
- Who “takes his life”: who 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.
Miscellaneous actions:
- Prank: this new term is widely used on Tik Tok to trick a loved one or relative on video. In our time, it was a hidden camera!
- Poucave, Pookie: report something to someone, swing
- Get excited: get in shape, party. Ex: “Saturday, we’re going to celebrate at Brice’s party”
- Grill: eat
- bicrave: to sell
- Ken: far from the beautiful partner of Barbie, Ken now refers to a sexual relationship (fuck)
- Balec: abbreviation for “fuck the balls”, or not to be interested in something
- Be in I, be in Y : do stunts on two-wheelers in I or Y
Things of life:
- Moula, moulaga: sorrel, money
- bay: thing. Ex : “What are bayes?”: “What’s going on?”
- Biff: money, abbreviation of the word bifton (banknote)
- Jaded : Coming from the term coat of arms, the blase designates the name of a person or an artist.
- Charcoal: to work.
- Zdeg: muscle. Fairly localized expression.
- the hess : the loose
- Bedave : smoke a joint, a bedo
- Bendo : the city, the district
- A gova : a car
Terms related to emotions:
- To be in PLS: of “lateral safety position”, not feeling very well
- To have the seum: to be disappointed, disgusted.
- Yomb: irritated. In situation: “I am yomb, I lost my laptop”.
- Hit the bars : laugh, 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’m rapta / I’m serious blue: I’m drunk on alcohol
- I ban you: I’ll take you off my (ban) list