San Francisco University High School Slang

[Erik Hoover]

Moded was current in LA in the late '70s and early '80s when I was in
elementary and middle school.  I recall it mostly as a stand-alone
expression uttered on seeing another suffer some sort of defeat,
"Moded!"

Likely it also found use in reflexive expressions of affirmation to the
previous example, thusly:  "So moded!"


I wonder now, what other cultural junk do I have tucked in under the
layers of dust?

Erik
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On Mar 30, 2005, at 12:01 PM, Grant Barrett wrote:

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> Sender:       American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> Poster:       Grant Barrett <gbarrett at WORLDNEWYORK.ORG>
> Subject:      San Francisco University High School Slang
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> I helped someone at San Francisco University High School with an
> article on slang for their parents' newsletter. You might be interested
> in the slang list put together by the students and the writer. I've
> included all of their terms, even though many are not new.
>
> "Sweet, Tight and Hella Stupid" by Ava Swartz, SFUHS Update (San
> Francisco), Mar.-Apr. 2005, p. 2
>
> ana--anorexic
>
> bootsy--smelly
>
> bunk--a situation, object, or person that another finds objectionable
>
> burn--put down, to be insulted; a socially degrading situation
>
> butchers--which, according to Richard Cole, is British slang for “look”
> — as in, “Come have a butchers at this.”
>
> chill--(adjective) cool, in a relaxed way. Chill = easy going
>
> crazy--the adverb, meaning “very”
>
> cutty--shady
>
> dime--used to describe a member of the opposite sex as a “perfect ten”
>
> dude--friend
>
> fit--attractive or beautiful
>
> fly--fine, attractive
>
> fonkay--funky. “You smell fonkay”
>
> fresh--tight
>
> gnarley--awesome or cool. “A gnarley wave”
>
> hella--very, a superlative (Northern Ca)
>
> hella--tight really cool
>
> hooking up--flirting with, maybe even kissing (always implies more than
> that, but it’s never true)
>
> hyphy--to become overly excited (southern U.S. derivative: crunk)
>
> Ill--to be extremely pleasing (“off the chain”; sick; tight) “ill”
> means sort of awesome
>
> Janky--Weird, smelly
>
> mad wicked = tight
>
> moded--beaten
>
> obese -- really good or really big. “Obese homework”
>
> rey--important
>
> shizzle--for sure
>
> sick--tight
>
> sketchy--shady, of dubious moral quality
>
> solid--decent, good work
>
> special--odd, interesting (but not very)
>
> spittin’ game--flirting
>
> stupid--very cool, popular
>
> that’s clutch--that’s tight
>
> that’s washed--(unable to define articulately; something that is not
> good)
>
> tight--cool, good, sweet
>
> washed--bad
>
> we’re gonna peace them--we’re leaving or ditching them
>
> word--yeah, I concur
>
> wicked--hella (East Coast)
>
> ....
>
> Grant Barrett
> gbarrett at worldnewyork.org
>