A third of those predate gen z. The complete nonsense words are definitely on them, though.
I think every word ever started out as something that was nonsense to everyone, except the first two people who used that word.
Ruru
No cap fr fr
But isn’t OPP other people’s… property or has that changed since Naughty by Nature taught us all what it meant?
No, it just shouldn’t be capitalized. It’s short for “operative” and usually refers to somebody you think is (or jokingly think is) working for/with the cops or feds.
It’s “Opp,” not OPP
Yeah you know me!
Sorry, 42 years old, force of habit.
Yeah you know me!
You down with O.P.P.?
Sounds like Narc would be the translation then…
Narc is more specific, opp is more general, so the youngin’s have opted for opp.
Every narc is an opp, not every opp is a narc.
But yeah, I think narc is closer than “enemy”, probably
I think it’s short for “opposition”, as in a rival gang
This. It’s definitely not operative lol
This makes vastly more sense in both gamer and hip-hop context than “opponent” does, so I’m willing to concede that this might actually be the right reading, as retroactively this fits in place of “operative” in the hip-hop settings I’ve experienced it in whereas opponent doesn’t.
Kudos.
It’s “opp” with two p’s but it’s short for “operative”, a word with one p? I’m starting to think that you don’t really know either.
Yeah and “rizz” comes from charisma but isn’t spelled “ris.”
And “OP” has multiple existing potential meanings still in common use today, so it makes sense to me to spell it with flair for the sake of clarity.
Slang is complex and morphs as it travels though; so do some folks use opp as “opponent”? Sure, that’s believable. But I feel fairly confident (never fully confident; I am fallible after all) that it’s original use comes from AAVE and more specifically hip-hop, where I again feel pretty damn confident it refers to an operative and not an opponent.
If I am wrong though, I would love to be corrected (with some verification of some kind) so I can be sure to reconcile the new info and not spread misinformation again. I’ll happily await your evidence to that end.
so do some folks use opp as “opponent”? Sure, that’s believable. But I feel fairly confident…
Bro, it doesn’t even have the right number of P’s for your reasoning to make any sense.
It comes from “opponent,” that’s why there are two P’s. It comes from video games/chess/card games/etc where you refer to the person or persons you’re playing against as the “opponent”. It’s been happening for many years but has made it’s way into gen z slang.
Perhaps there’s a case of parallel development here, but I really don’t think that’s what happened.
Gamer slang has long borrowed, sometimes sincerely sometimes ironically, from AAVE and hip-hop slang, where I truly believe this originates, and clearly has the cop/fed connotation. Yeah, I know people shorthand “opp” as opponent in games in the same way they shorthand everything, but jesus christ that’s more approaching 1337 5p35k customs than gen z/alpha slang, so even if we do assume parallel development and concede opp=opponent in modern gamer slang it almost certainly is pretty unrelated to said archaic use and was likely homespun in zoomer/alpha games like Roblox or Amung Us or whatever they’re playing now instead.
But hey, while I remain unconvinced I am proud to accept my fallibility and ask everyone to remember that I am just some stranger online when weighing the weight of my opinion and to draw your own conclusion on the matter. I do not claim to speak gospel.
It’s not operative. It’s opposition.
Oh I thought it was short for “opponent” lol
That’s because it is. People who don’t understand just make shit up. That’s why the number of P’s doesn’t even line up.
I always thought opposition
Oh a narc. That’s funny cuz up here the cops are actually called the OPP
That’s where my mind went, too. I’m 40.
The last p, well… that’s not that simple. It’s sorta like another way to call a cat kitten. As for the ladies, OPP means something gifted: the first two letters are the same but the last is something different; it’s another five letter word rhymin’ with cleanest and meanest.
My high school Algebra teacher was once telling the class about ZPP, the zero product property. He told us when he was teaching in the 90s, there was a new song out called OPP and he would say “you down with ZPP?” and the class would say “yeah you know me!” lol
Penist!
Is it just “OP”? Like how online forums starting Reddit say “original poster” and this just snuck its way into all conversation?
As a younger millenial I gotta say some of these are ours. We were calling things “extra” since like '06. Vibe is as old as the hippies, and mid is weed slang from like the early 2000s.
Every generation uses old slang they mistakenly believe they invented.
Or in the case of ‘out of pocket’ every generaation just ignorantly bastardizes random shit.
Fax, no printer.
No baseball hat.
You down with OPP?
Yeah You know me
Wait, those are real?
Unfortunately
I apparently live under a rock.
Yeah, our generation was streets ahead of those zoomers.
Ok Pierce.
That’s a dope-ass list, shit’s ill af. Just don’t be bitin someone else’s stilo, cuz that shit’s wack, yo. If ya do, just tell ‘em “my bad, b!”, or expect peeps gonna be poppin caps in your ass, ya heard?
Word to ya motha.
Wicka wicka Slim Shady. Uh… leave Britney alone!
Yes, Cuban B!
Bruh
sup. /the ‘p’ is silent and the vowel becomes elongated with a drop; off. “SUh h”
Okay gramgram, let’s get you to beddy-bye
I shall share a stolen… I meant a borrowed meme
Does ‘else if’ become ‘cap nocap’?
Only in that context, it loses the meaning they’re trying for if you’re not using it exactly like that.
new Copeis nutsSheesh yaas
“I feel old”
Picture of something printed on paper
Ick is just short for icky and vibe has been around for decades.
Gnarly list.
The whole trend is nothing new. Millennials and some GenXers were stealing all their slang from American rappers when they were young, too.
Uh Gen X predates rap.
True, but people using cool sayings from black culture has been a thing for a long time
Rap got popular in the 80’s, like NWA and Run DMC, right as GenXers were entering their formative years. Really not hard to figure out before posting pointless replies.
I am GenX so I can speak from my personal experience, which I realize is not universal.
I actually bought “Rappers Delight” on a 45 rpm single the year it was released. But it’s also true that Blondie’s “Rapture” was the first rapping song I heard on the radio. I would have been 13 at the time and rap was far from a mainstream musical style.
Looking back now there certainly were specific individuals of GenX and Jones who had access to rap, but it was certainly not available to me as a suburban kid in Canada. Even that Sugarhill Gang single was hard to find because “rap” as a concept didn’t really exist at that point. I am trying to find a recording of the Extras song “Hip Hop Hip Hip” as an example but it’s so obscure neither YouTube nor my streaming service seem to have it available. It would be unrecognizable to you as hip hop because nobody knew what hip hop was then. People were experimenting broadly and some of those experiments are now considered part of the movement. But we didn’t know that then. Another example that stands out for me was “White Lines” by Grandmaster Flash. It was largely spoken word and I would have identified it as funk then. Now I guess I don’t know.
“Straight Outta Compton” came out when I was in university. I really liked it because of the anger. The raw emotion felt like the best of the punk movement from 15 years before.
So yeah I could have been clearer. The early seeds of what we now consider “rap” were around when I was young. But I would not have called it a popular genre in my circles, or even mainstream. I don’t remember rap shows in the clubs (and I spent a lot of time there in my teens and twenties).
Radically tubular
Very heather.
“Giving” is ballroom slang from like, the 80s. Extra is also LGBT slang that has been around at least since I was a teenager > a decade ago.
Yeah but giving is seeing a surge, particularly as attitudes about LGBTQA shift
I think they’re saying “the ick” or something but that’s also pretty understandable by everyone.
List is hella whack
Is it wiggidy wiggidy wiggidy wiggidy whack?
Straight up, wic wik wac.
So you’re playing a little Playstation, huh? That’s whack! Playstation is whack! ‘Sup with the whack Playstation, ‘sup?!
where skibidi?
Thought that was Alpha gen.
It depends, it’s generally used by gen z to mock gen alpha, though some of the youngest genz do use it regularly
It’s not a real slang term as far as I’m aware, it’s just a mock slang term that showed up because skibidi toilet happened to also be a meme around the time zoomer slang became a meme.
Whats the oldies equivalent?
GMod.
yes yes
I seem to recall when they were translating “grunge” slang and it was also mostly bullshit not actually used.
Does double for drug slang. It’s either decades out of date or just plain made up
How am I supposed to ask for my yellow bentines now?
Not rather Gen Alpha already? I too am kinda getting lost here, as a Gen Z.
I swear to god half of the slang from memes like this is just aspirational. Pretty fetch imo.
Oh my god Gretchen
Stop trying to make fetch happen
Usually yeah, but for once those are actually real slang genuinely used the Z/alpha crowd and through them tiktok in general
Well I’m sure they’ll grow out of it like millennials did with “fleek” that everyone swore was real slang with mad drip and rizz, no cap or ick, son.
Fleek is Ohio AF frfr no cap
tiktok
Ah, now it makes more sense.
Gyatt was originally just a different pronunciation of god: GOD DAMN! = GYATT DAYUM!
That actually makes sense, thank you for explaining.
I thought the youngsters these days were using thicc to refer to big butts, as in GYAT DAYUM DAS THICC
I’m a very late millennial, borderline Gen Z, and even I feel like all my slang knowledge is outdated.
Gen Z has even ruined our programming!
TIHI
Opp? How can I explain it? Take it frame by frame it, to have y’all all jumping, shouting, saying it? O is for other, P is for people, scratch your temple, because the last P? Well that’s not so simple…
You down with OPP?
You know me
Opp as in opp(osition)
No actually the last P is sort of…well another way to call a cat a kitten, it’s five little letters that I’m missing here. You get it on occasion if the other party isn’t gaming. Seems I gotta start explaining. You ever had a girl and met her on a nice hello? Get her name and number then left feeling real mellow? You get home, wait a day, she’s what you want to know about, but when you call up it’s her girlfriend’s or her cousin’s house? It’s not a front, it’s just her boyfriend is at her house. It’s OPP, some Other People’s when you get it, there’s no room for relationships there’s just room to hit it. How many lemmings out here know just what I’m getting at? Who thinks it’s wrong because I was splitting and co-hitting that? Well if you do that’s OPP and you’re not down with it, but if you don’t here’s your membership.
It’s a work of art you’ve done here.
I have only heard that word in a single thing in my life, it’s some British song with the following lyrics:
“Tea and biscuit hunting, opps are good at nothing…”
