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Gen Z Guide To 80’s Slang (Real)
Shakespeel
You want 80’s slang, but you don’t want the campy, basic terms you’ve been hearing. We’ve got you. This isn’t some crummy 80’s B-movie, this is the real deal. Don’t like it? I’ll bet you could suck a golf ball through a garden hose!
Real 80’s Slang From The 80’s
Dipstick
noun
This is pretty simple – if someone calls you a dipstick, they’re saying you’re good at *checks notes* measuring the volume of oil in a car! Duh.
“Did’ya see Chad stick his whole head into his oil tank and come out soaking wet? What a dipstick!”
Gag Me With A Spoon
expression
One saying this is so disgusted by something that they need to vomit.
“You want me to wear that? That outfit is from like, last year. Gag me with a spoon!”
Squazzed
adjective
The feeling of insane joy, usually while playing a game with friends, that is derived from dopamine, serotonin, or external substances. Also used to describe someone cooler than cool, badder than bad, radder than rad, and never a fad.
“Yooo what were we even playing last night?” “Fanatics Gone Bananas, bro, we got totally SQUAZZED!“
Fierichetz
(Fai-ur-ee-shitz)
noun
Any food with a touch of flare, really.
“I had some fierichetz during my lunch break!”
Bodacious
adjective
A combination of bold and audacious, this is commonly used to describe an attractive individual.
“The bodacious baddie breasted boobily down the stairs to the beach.”
Sizzly Bizzly
adjective
When anything, usually an event, is both sizzly… and bizzly. It’s real simple, obvs. This is definitely 80’s slang, for sure.
“Yooo this party is soo sizzly bizzly!” “Sizzly bizzly? What’s that?”
“Sizzle these balls, bizzle.”
Wowzers In My Trousers
expression
Said when something is so wonderfully impressive that the person feels happy, uh, everywhere! Real 80’s men used this all the time, with their long hair and denim jackets!
“Uncle Joe is finally going to prison, so I don’t have to visit his house anymore! Wowzers in my trousers!”
Nerd
noun
Back in the day, this was derogatory term, since young US Americans were brought up to believe that smart was the lamest thing they could be. Nowadays, it’s used to describe people that look like they call themselves “Sigma males” on the internet, and people with hobbies.
“Billy reads anti-imperialist literature so that he can one day expose our nation for hiding the dark truths behind our troops stationed in other countries, and also he likes Star Wars! What a nerd!”
Veg
verb
The act of doing nothing intentionally, and allowing oneself to maintain a resting state for a long period.
“Hey, I’m gonna go veg on the couch.” “Don’t you have a report that’s due tomorrow?” “Yeah, I’m actually going to think about how I need to do that all day until I go into a manic frenzy to get it done at 2 AM, it’s all beans!”
Hotdogger
noun
One who hot dogs.
“Just discovered James is a hotdogger.” “Wow. What a terrible, disgusting, repulsive, puke-inducing, hell-deserving, rotten, pathetic waste of flesh. I’m never speaking to him again.”
That’s Beans
expression
Calling something beans could either mean it is good, or that it is cheap and tacky, like a can of beans.
“Me and the boys going out at 3 AM looking for beans?! That’s beans, man.”
Mondo
adjective
Striking. Wild. Remarkable. When someone wants to describe something and sound vaguely Italian for some reason?
“That pizza place always gives me free pizzas, and there’s always the damp sound of someone screaming way back in the kitchen. Pretty mondo if you ask me.”
Gangle Bangle
verb
When a group of people all come to a person’s residence to make friendship bracelets, in private.
“Did you hear? Devon got gangle bangled by the football team and cheerleaders last week. I’m happy they have so many friends!”
Eat My Shorts
expression
“Kiss my ass,” but an animated child could get away with saying it on television.
“Stop world hunger! Eat my shorts!”
Bagodics
(Ba-,gō-diks)
noun
A word meaning multiple bagels at once.
“Hey, y’all! Let’s go eat a bagodics right now!”
Yo Momma
noun
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The 80’s Were Mondo Weirdo
Yup, those were ALL real 80’s slang by a person who was definitely alive during the 80’s.
If you and your friends want an excuse to use these real, not-made-up words, put ’em on the custom cards that we include in Fanatics Gone Bananas!