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Where Did Our Slang Words Come From?

Nov 30, 2015

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Where Did Our Slang Words Come From?

1. Fleek

Fleek came from viner Peaches Monroee, with her legendary vine:

2. Bae

Sadly, no one on the Internet really knows where bae came from. If I had to guess, I'd say it just came from people texting "babe" and autocorrect screwing up as usual and putting "bae," so everyone just stuck with it. Apparently it's been on the interwebs for a few years now, and in Danish, it means poop. How pleasant.

3.) Turnt

Turnt appeared when people got too lazy of saying "turned up" and just made the two words into one. Just like don't or won't. Damn, we're so smart.

4. F**kboy

This one has got to be my personal favorite. Finally, we have the world for a dude who's a s**t. F**kboy came from AAVE, or African-American Vernacular English. The term didn't come into the spotlight into recent times, but I'm so glad it did.

5. Netflix and chill

A f**kboy texts his bae "Hey, wanna Netflix and chill? ;)" and they would rarely just... watch Netflix and chill. Eventually people realized this inevitable text message meant much more than watching TV together, so everyone decided to use the term to describe their sexy times.

6. Or nah?

This term apparently came from a song called "Lonely" by Speaker Knockerz. I bet he didn't know he'd be creating a term that all of the Internet uses.

7. AF

I think this one came out of pure laziness. "As f**k" has been used to emphasize adjectives forever, but lazy Internet people such as myself think it's way too much work to type out those six letters, so AF came into our lives.

There are some of our most used slang words and where they come from. As dumb as they are, we all love and appreciate them no matter what we say.

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