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  2. Old-School Slang Words That Really Deserve a Comeback

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    2. Zozzled. Used to describe: Being drunk An alteration of the older sozzled—which originated around 1886 —zozzled means to be drunk, with sozzle meaning to spill something in a messy manner.

  3. A brief history of 'wokeness' - AOL

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    “I think [woke is] an unusable word — although it is used all the time — because it doesn’t actually mean anything,” Tony Thorne, the author of “Dictionary of Contemporary Slang ...

  4. Woke - Wikipedia

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    [34] [15] The American Dialect Society voted woke the slang word of the year in 2017. [ 35 ] [ 36 ] [ 37 ] In the same year, the term was included as an entry in Oxford English Dictionary . [ 38 ] [ 7 ] By 2019, the term woke was increasingly being used in an ironic sense, as reflected in the books Woke by comedian Andrew Doyle (using the pen ...

  5. 20 iconic slang words from Black Twitter that shaped pop culture

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    In honor of Black Twitter's contribution, Stacker compiled a list of 20 slang words it brought to popularity, using the AAVE Glossary, Urban Dictionary, Know Your Meme, and other internet ...

  6. Go woke, go broke - Wikipedia

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    Go woke, go broke, or alternatively get woke, go broke, is an American political catchphrase used by right-wing groups to criticize and boycott businesses publicly supporting progressive policies, including empowering women, LGBT people and critical race theory ("going woke"), claiming that stock value and business performance will inevitably suffer ("going broke") as a result of adopting ...

  7. Rizz - Wikipedia

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    Kai Cenat, who popularized the word rizz. The popularity of the word in mid-2021 is attributed to Kai Cenat.Streaming on Twitch, Cenat would share to people how to have "rizz" and developed other phrases, such as "W rizz" and "L rizz", to describe a person's "winning" or "losing" abilities at attracting or chatting up a person/potential love interest.

  8. From ‘Basic’ to ‘Boujee,’ Here Are 29 Gen Z Slang Terms To ...

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    Born right smack on the cusp of millennial and Gen Z years (ahem, 1996), I grew up both enjoying the wonders of a digital-free world—collecting snail shells in my pocket and scraping knees on my ...

  9. Cheugy - Wikipedia

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    Cheugy (/ ˈ tʃ uː ɡ i / CHOO-ghee [1]) is an American neologism coined in 2013 as a pejorative description of lifestyle trends associated with the early 2010s. This aesthetic has been described as [2] [3] [4] "the opposite of trendy" [5] or "trying too hard". [6]