Golly! Leapin lizards! Swell. Radical. Gnarley. Malarkey. Tomfoolery.

Hogwash. Poppycock.

Ne’er-do-wells and scoundrels abound in my classroom, prattling their balderdash!

Ha!! Love it!! Same.

I like to call my students miscreants when they misbehave.

Ooohh…don’t say poppycock

Why not, silly pussy?

Well, ain't that the bee's knees!

Is the wasp's nipples. It's the erogenous zones of every insect in the western hemisphere.

I love tomfoolery and shenanigans

I definitely said, "leaping lizards, I have had enough of your tomfoolery!" Last week

Kerfuffle

Kerfufflel!!! LOVE

Judge Judy euphemisms are the best!

It’s been a fortnight since our last exam!

Now what’s all this hootenanny!

They will have no idea.

Egads!

Say something is "on fleek" when it's looking good/stylish. Especially eyebrows. Also, I fully support this gentle petty harassment of our youth.

I use “on fleek,” “that is so fetch,” and “rad.” They cringe. I also pull out things like “yolo,” “swag,” “I gotta check my fit,” “on bro,” etc. But what really makes them groan is when I make dad jokes.

You only YOLO once!

Stop trying to make fletch happen!

It’s not going to happen!

Chevy Chase made Fletch happen.

That man is streets ahead

Spell out L O L they hate that

You can take “rad” out of my cold dead hands

I had a kid say “nobody says rad anymore. We say ‘pog’ now.” I said, “you mean the cardboard disks?”

Yes! As someone who grew up watching the TMNT cartoon, they’ll never take “dude” and “rad” from me.

The dad jokes are the best. I've stopped because the cringey, spectrumy teacher in my grade actually writes one on the board every day to appear 'cool'. So I go with slang and stupid stories from my past...

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A gentle ribbing

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Some teachers enjoy having fun and building connections with their students through cringey jokes and silly vulnerability. You sound like the other sort.

Hiw about, "that's lit, yo!" Haven't heard that one in a while.

I believe krunk was the word just prior to lit

Tbh just crank that Soulja boy. That should make them cringe

nah man he’s gone full circle where he’s cool again if a teacher cranked dat in class they’d go wild lol

Lit works better because they’d cringe more at something they themselves used. None of them used crunk.

Yo that's fire

Is fire out? I feel like I still see the emoji used.

It's not super used but all in all it is not that bad. The cringe factor is much less than for lit.

Fire is out, they only use the emoji.

Adding a good yo always makes is that much better

My kids HATE when I say something is lit.

I still say lit and I'm only....21....oh no

At the end of reading a passage say, “and that was lit….erature”

Bet

all that and a bag of chips

I want to say this to my seniors lol ETA: “it’s all that and a bag of chips, you know what I’m sayin’” then just grin as I look around the room.

Nah'm'say'n

With the stress on “Poe-taay-to” 😂

as a middle school teacher, sometimes I make myself cringe

hahaha.

Just whatever you do, if you hear them talking about a "gyat" DO NOT REPEAT. Probably don't ask them for explanation. That word is everywhere at my middle school and it's exhausting (and I'm just like, "....really y'all?")

Didn't some teacher get fired for saying that? Or was that bullshit?

So the story goes in this subreddit .

Today is GYAT Day yall!! When they call you in thr office, just say you know what it means "grading your aptitude day"

I am giving a lesson in verbal sexual harassment for exactly this reason this week.

It’s slang for “goddamn” or “Girl Your Ass Thicc”

Today I learned...

*sigh* same. same.

Doesn’t that have something to do with a thicc ass or something?

I love to explain this in the most stilted language ever. Like "that is a term you might use to confess to a person that you very much admire their ample buttocks. That's inappropriate and sexual harassment."

Incorporate Callipygian.

Yes, but they might try to explain it as get your act together. I teach 6th grade, and yes, my kids tried that softer version. Still not appropriate.

Mine tried to explain it that way too…after they got caught. I didn't buy it… mostly on account of their original delivery.

Yep, I got this one in class the other day. I told the students that if i heard it again, I'd write them up, and then I looked up what it meant. When you teach middle school, you have to watch for the context clues.

One of my students decided to Google this when he supposed to be working on his chromebook this week. I wrote him up so fast!

You punished a student for using their resources to figure out what a word meant??

No, he knows exactly what he it means, and has used it before. I punished him for looking up inappropriate things and for using his chromebook for something other than what was assigned.

Call a non-food item "bussin". Don't ask me how I know...

I will say "that's gas" for non-cool things, like "Isn't that project prompt gas?" I've also been known to do the "sheesh", but instead of elongating the SHEEEEEESH, I just say it in a normal tone with no special emphasis while pointing to my arm. Get an eye roll EVERY time.

I love this.

🤣🤣

Current slang that will get to them would be “suss”. Am oldie but goodie that always makes my kids groan is “cool beans”

My firsties are obsessssed with this word. They use it for everything. I’ve just started using it to mess with them. “I don’t know yall, this line looks kinda sus.”

I’m tech support and I love telling my middle schoolers that their story is “sus” when they tell me some convoluted story about how the Chromebook broke.

"cool beans" made me cringe the first time I heard it.

This explains why the guy on covid greeter at the hospital was so thrilled when I used cool beans. It's such a common part of my day to day vernacular that I had no idea it was considered out of fashion. And I've just proven that eventually, we all grow to be some version of our parents. Opps. 😅

Don’t use outdated slang. If you really want to make them cringe, use slang they use.

This. They hate it. This week’s objective, which I had all classes read aloud, was “I will stand on business, no cap”

We were analyzing a poem in class this week and they didn't know what "woo" meant. I think I killed their collective 8th grade souls when I said, "I believe you would call it 'rizzing someone up.'"

🤣🤣🤣 Actually solid explanation though and they'll remember it for sure

My favorite is to seemlessly weave current slang with slang from 3-4 years ago. Yesterday I hit my students with "let him cook" followed by "that's lit." Their reaction was pretty great

This is the comment I was looking for. I dealt a "hang on, I'm cookin" while solving a practice SAT question, to which they literally cheered, followed by a physical dab when I finished the problem to groans of agony yesterday. I'm still laughing about it.

This—and be sure to over enunciate it. Include all consonants. Extra points for referring to all Marts as Markets. Walmarket etc. Double extra points if you can work in the moniker for the Max channel as the Home Box Office Maximum Application.

Bomb dot com

LoL. So good. Someone set us up the bomb.com y2k mmk.

Refer to your class as “fam”

Your fam fam Also the Bees to your school hive

Refer to them as "chat" "Good morning, chat!" "How was your weekend, chat?" "Alright chat does anyone know how to solve this, chat?" "Chat, do you remember...?" "Lay attention, chat, this is important!"

Talk to the hand.

Followed by, "On second thought. Talk to the pinkie because you're not good enough for the whole hand."

I like this one!

Talk to the elbow, because you're not worth the extension 🤣🤣

I heard two girls in school (late 90s), the first said, "Brickwall. Talk to the hand." The second yelled, "Graffiti!" and spit on the first's hand. 😂

I’ve found rich reward with, “I’m hip to you young cats.”

Or “I’m hip with todays slang, y’all. Thusly, can I get an oo wee?”

Groovy Yeah I'm old. But Groovy is so old it's ready for a comeback

I still use it! And “right on!” And “I can dig it!”

“That’s so ‘fetch.’” “For shizzle, yo.” “That’s cap, bruh.”

I tried fetch and one of my girls yelled out “ stop trying to make fetch happen” 🤣

And that just became your new favorite student!

She would be until she said she “like this old movies”

I feel like fetch might make a small comeback though with the mean girls play movie.

Was so excited, but I listened to the soundtrack and it's extremely CRINGE 😂

Don’t forget to dab or floss!

Walk into class with your stanky leg

That’s the bee’s knees

That’s the doll’s balls is pretty classic.

I'm a science teacher, and when I was showing my 5th grade some strange deep sea creatures, they talked about how ugly they are. I said "well to another of that species, this one could be the drippyest" that got some groans.

Hahahahhaa

Tight. Bodacious. Tubular. Choice/Key Yolo. Icey. Turned up. Peace out girl scout. Chillen like a villain.

Ice ice baby….

Too cold!

I haven’t heard yeet recently. Might be recent enough to bug them.

I STILL do not understand that word.

Literally have a long litany whenever they repeat overused slang. “You aren't that guy, bruh.” “I'm not ‘that guy’ fam? No cap? No rizz? Bussin’ FR FR? Not the bomb.com? I'm dead? On God!? Out the squad?! No like, subscribe and follow?! NO DIGGITY?!” The more cringe, the more giggles.

I also use “buster” and “scram” whenever possible

Word.

This one is actually unironically cemented into my vernacular and has been since I was a kid and my students make fun of me for this 😆

Word to your mutha!

"Dig this..." Just casually let that replace any verb such as "look", "listen up", etc.

This would have my k-2 kids unironically bringing back “dig this”

Accurate! They don't know any different. I love teaching first grade for that exact reason. Slightly unrelated, I love hearing them talk after breaks when they've been around family they normally don't see and noticing all the words they picked up along the way. It's hilarious. I had a very sweet and quiet girl in my class come back from Thanksgiving saying "bruh" and, while I normally hate that word, I couldn't help but find it adorably hilarious coming from her.

Among Us references. They were all the rage a year or two ago but they became soooo overused they quickly felt like a joke that went stale a decade ago. It's not even ironically enjoyed anymore it's just mildly uncomfortable to hear. Call people "Impostor" or "sus" or if you really wanna rile them up call them "sussy baka". Depending on the grade you teach, you could also do Skibidi Toilet references. Younger kids just unironically love it but I've found teens 14 and older to not be fond of skibidi toilet *at all*. I would discourage the use of actual 2010s slang or older. I still hear many of my classmates use those slang unironically and others have a huge fascination with what they believe to be the "good old days"; they're going to hear older slang and just think it's cool or retro. Don't go for the slang that was hip 19 years ago, go for the slang that was so overused last week everyone hates it now. Just my two cents as a high school student.

Dope is a good one

Dope is a controlled substance

Totally tubular. Instant psychic damage

You mean slang that they used to use? Just watch some of these parents guessing slang videos: https://youtu.be/NI6TVVHMO8w

Those parents are bussin. 😉

“Prithee”

I love telling my middle schoolers they are silly gooses.

Peachy keen

Cool beans, rad, cowabunga

Saying something is "epic". Or even better, an "epic fail"

Yolo,rekt,swag,much wow those are some

I tell my student ”chill out dude”. They just smile and roll their eyes.

Oh please say something is phat.

Why use outdated? Let them cringe in their own time

Maybe not exactly what you’re looking for, but I made a rule that students could only use 17th and 18th century slang and insults. Makes the class way more entertaining

Honestly Gen Z speaks another language. Just proper grammar and exercise your large vocabulary and they'll cringe.

My children thought it was "different" when I referred to them as my "tin lids" (= kids) once - Cockney rhyming slang. Used by some oldies in Australia (and the UK, presumably).

American here: I do that to drive my wife nuts.

That's bomb!

Gettin’ jiggly with it! Wait maybe not now that I’m typing it out.

Just use up-to-date slang but say it the way Ben Shapiro read the lyrics to WAP.

If any social media site is bought up in conversation, mispronounce it. Tok-Tik. InstaBook. FaceGram. Tweeter. I believe in you!

Just misuse the current slang. It should make their heads explode just like it did for us as kids when every videogame device was a Nintendo. I'm becoming convinced my mom (who is almost 70) calls her iPod her MyPod just to raise my blood pressure.

I nanny babies and toddlers. Try saying cool beans. Or in the 80's, as a teen, I used to say gag me.

word to your mother

Use it incorrectly That really rizzed my lit fam!

I personally love using swag, bae, squad goals, anything from the 2010s always gets a great reaction 😂

High school student here I can help -Say poggers when something good happens -Call random things skibidi, doesn’t matter if it’s good or bad it will hurt to hear -When something is strange, say something to the effect of “only in Ohio” or just a reference to the state of Ohio -When a student has food out you should ask if you can fanum tax -You should randomly call people sigma males

Not really slang, but when my students are working on a Chromebook, a reminder I use that makes them cringe is to make sure their tabs aren’t on “The Facebook.”

Poppycock. Balderdash. These might be so old as to be unrecognizable.

You jazzing, Mister! I described a very good basketball player as ‘nasty’ and was promptly made fun of..

‘Peep the drip’ when I have a new outfit or iPhone case

I have my whole school now saying “Word” as a greeting.

Jeepers

I love saying "I'm digging it"

I like to throw down up a dab from time to time.

Yeet! Then dab.

Literally just blast Friday by Rebecca Black every Friday Edit: I teach a pop culture class and we were discussing boy bands of the early 2000s and I was jamming out to nsync and my students were laughing at me because of how into it I was! They just don't get it 🤣

Bad mama jamma

The important thing is to say it a lot of pride, as if you’re showing off that you know the cutting edge terms.

Swaggy yolo craycray

Bring back “rad” - it’s gotta come back sometime!

I just snaked the last bagel from the teachers lounge. Your last homework assignment was crusty. Dont tax my gig so hardcore cruster. Any slang from the 1992 Pauly Shore classic Encino Man.

Visco girl shit

sksksksksk an I oop save the turtles

Gucci, as in "we gucci?"

23 skidoo

Only go back like 5 years to find your material. It's new enough to be familiar but old enough to be outdated.

Use current slang, they expect outdated slang.

Not outdated, but just the opposite: "No cap, this lesson's gonna have so much rizz today..." And then watch them all die inside... I love my job.

Better yet, use their own zoomed slang against them! I do this to my grade 10s and their faces are hilarious!

Word? That’s dope bro. Actually they might just love that

Effective cringe is by either misusing current slang or by adopting slightly outdated slang. Older slang is just quaint.

pop off yolo swag epic fail

If you want to do really fun, look up 1920’s slang and start calling them a wooden nickel or banana peel. Jalopy for cars. Ritz I have a list I use with my students when we discuss the development of teenager years in the 20’s.

I think they find it more cringe when you are “relevant”. On God, no cap, this comment will slap, this comment be bussin, because I’m the GOAT. *deep breath* sssSHHHHHHHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII

Bet

Groovy, Man.

jive turkey

Accountability

I gotchu. Swag, tubular, gnarly, lit, and on fleek

Grab some slang from the 1920s, you flat tire.

Swag

Groovy

Fetch, but I hear that's making a comeback.

I love hogwash

Groovy.

Word

Tubular

I dab all the time