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SUNDAY TIMES GRAPHICS: SALLY LAM ST PHOTOS: MARK CHEONG
Millennialspeak
Example: “Get woke, stay woke.” The phrase “stay woke” dates back to the
1960s and surfaced in pop culture with Erykah Badu and
Georgia Anne Muldrow’s 2008
song Master Teacher, but
truly hit its stride with the
rise of the Black Lives Matter
movement in the United States.
Woke is a politically charged term and should
not be used generically. If you go around claiming you are woke, you probably are not.
Salty
Example: “She’s just salty her story didn’t
make the front page.”
Woke
ThirstyDesperate, especiallysexually.
If one posts a sexually attractive sel�e on social media, this is a “thirst trap”.
LitReally amazing.
Examples: “Looking lit today” or “This party is lit”. As early as the 1910s, “lit” already meant “intoxicated”.
Example: “I’m looking at all these photos of my friends at the bar and I’m fomo-ing so hard.” Marketing strategist Dan Herman �rst published a paper about this phenomenon in 2000. It is closely linked to social media addiction.
On �eek
Example: “Your eyebrows today are on �eek.”
The phrase went viral after a 2014 vine by American teenager Kayla Newman,
or “Peaches Monroee”, in a six-second video posted
on the social network Vine.
Perfectly executed, similar to “on point”
or the more contemporary “looking snatched”.
Things associated with being basic include: Starbucks pumpkin
spice lattes, quoting Lang Leav poetry
unironically, using #blessed in
your Instagram captions for no
real reason.
Basic
tl;drToo long; didn’t read.
Used to call out somebody for being long-winded, or to signal in advance that a post will be lengthy so people do not complain later. Commonly used on platforms such as Reddit and Tumblr.
It can also be used to refer to other things one is very passionate about, for example, “pizza is bae”.
Bae
A brief lexicon of the generation’s slang
Fomo
Example: “Did you see the new Game Of Thrones trailer? I’m so shook.” Superlatives include
shookt and shooketh.
Shook
A derogatory term that refersto a person so mainstream that
he is beyond uninteresting. Your signi�cant other, said to stand
for “before anyone else”,
but more likely to have been a
derivative of “babe”.
Upset, bitter and, therefore, rude.
Fear of missing out. It can be used as a verb.
Having a very intense,emotional reaction of shock, fear, excitement and more.
Aware about issues of social injustice.
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