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[–] 68 points 3 years ago (2 children)
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    [–] 50 points 3 years ago (6 children)

    There was a podcast episode years back about how large quicksand loomed in popular culture for a whole generation, before vanishing as a concept almost completely.

    And sure enough, I remember as a kid in the 80s worrying about stumbling into quicksand while wandering around the bushes in rural Canada.

    Then I forgot about it as a concept until I heard it on that one episode, and I haven't heard it since.

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    [–] 50 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Myrrh. I used to hear it as a kid in church. Haven't heard it in decades by now.

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    [–] 34 points 3 years ago (8 children)

    Cowabunga and tubular!

    80s were a good time!

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    Vituperative. It's such a good word too.

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  • [–] 20 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Oh, that's good. A new one for me!

    From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
    
      vituperative
          adj 1: marked by harshly abusive criticism; "his scathing
                 remarks about silly lady novelists"; "her vituperative
                 railing" [syn: {scathing}, {vituperative}]
    
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  • [–] 22 points 3 years ago

    Discombobulate

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  • [–] 21 points 3 years ago (3 children)
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    Phat! As in cool. Haven't heard that one in wellllll over a decade.

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  • [–] 19 points 3 years ago (6 children)
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    [–] 19 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Dag. Not like Snatch “ya like dags” but like “dag, yo”.

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    [–] 19 points 3 years ago (1 child)
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    [–] 17 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    I left Australia decades back, so all my slang vocabulary is stuck from when I left.

    rorted - being high

    having a pash - intense kissing

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    [–] 16 points 3 years ago (4 children)
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    [–] 15 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Defenestrate. What a word!

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    [–] 13 points 3 years ago* (2 children)

    I love you too.
    It's not a single word though.

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    [–] 13 points 3 years ago (4 children)
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    [–] 13 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Mack

    "Did you mack her?"

    So dumb lol

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    [–] 12 points 3 years ago

    Floppy (disk)

    Choke (on a vehicle)

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  • [–] 12 points 3 years ago (2 children)
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    Bodacious

    Tubular

    Take a whiz

    Majorly

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  • [–] 11 points 3 years ago*

    bitchin
    wicked

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    [–] 10 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    fag (and I mean "haven't used in years" in a very good way.)

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    saw someone on tiktok refer to casual sex as "tappin that", instantly knew their age

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    [–] 9 points 3 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    Sisyphean I come across it like once every few years in some article.

    24 days later: https://lemm.ee/post/5458899 See what I mean?

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    [–] 8 points 3 years ago (1 child)
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