San Francisco University High School Slang

[Grant Barrett]

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)

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Grant Barrett
gbarrett at worldnewyork.org