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Do you know what the slang adjective “ratchet” means? (1 Viewer)
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DallasDMac
Footballguy
Was it used with "and Clank"?
massraider
Footballguy
No.Just ran across the adjective “ratchet” for the first time watching TV tonight. I asked my daughter what it meant, and she looked at me like I didn’t know what “blue” or “tall” meant
This word can’t be common knowledge for late middle-agers, can it?
Hood slang that made it to mainstream. Ten years old maybe?
Closest term you know would be "skanky".
Leroy Hoard
Footballguy
It's another name for a socket wrench.
massraider
Footballguy
The General
Footballguy
Classy, Bougie, Ratchet
rockaction
Footballguy
I only barely know it because I'm just boughetto enough.Just ran across the adjective “ratchet” for the first time watching TV tonight. I asked my daughter what it meant, and she looked at me like I didn’t know what “blue” or “tall” meant
This word can’t be common knowledge for late middle-agers, can it?
I can never tell whether it's "ratchet" or "ratched," though, when pronounced. Is it like the socket or is it like Nurse Ratched from One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest? Inquiring minds want to know.
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The Z Machine
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You say no to ratchet ... Juicy J caint.
parasaurolophus
Footballguy
So like when you see a girl in the bar with no shoes on?
STEADYMOBBIN 22
Footballguy
Are you familiar with the term "Drip?" That would essentially be what you've only recently started referring to as your Swag.
FairWarning
Footballguy
I need to get with the times. What hip hop album after 2002 can expand my vocabulary in time for the March Madness party at the casino Friday?
rockaction
Footballguy
You mean there were hip hop albums after 2002?
Refer to everything north as "norf." Just whenever somebody makes a bucket just scream out "Norf side Long Beach." And whenever someone is taking over a game make sure to say that he "eats."
"Man, before you go looking south for competition, try norf with me. That's where I eat."
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FairWarning
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rockaction
Footballguy
I have no idea how to respond to that. You know I went there, or no? That's funny.
We breed them differently up there. Can't believe they hit the tourney again. Probably the first time in a looooooong time.
FairWarning
Footballguy
Haha no I didn't. Very interested in a game with a total of 162 though, could be 100-90.
rockaction
Footballguy
I honestly haven't followed college basketball since the year that UConn won with Kevin Ollie. The year with Shabazz Napier. I could tell you nothing about the over-under except to tell you that they kept pace with Army, which inflated their NET rankings. (Don't ask me what those are, either.) I do know Ken Pom, though, and he's got them ranked in the eighties, according to the WSJ. That's about the extent of it.
Go Raiders!
-OZ-
Footballguy
parasaurolophus
Footballguy
As the last guy on the planet to learn what tiktok was i cant believe you just heard about this word.
Doug B
Footballguy
Never heard “Drip” and not 100% clear on “Swag”. What might have Run DMC called “swag”? Confidence? Game? Stroke? “Swag” being related to “swagger”?
Doug B
Footballguy
Almost no exposure to contemporary music or the culture surrounding it
Where else would I have run across it?
Da Guru
Fair & Balanced
parasaurolophus
Footballguy
I just learned who Dua Lipa was so I can relate.Almost no exposure to contemporary music or the culture surrounding it
That term has been around for a long time though so i just find it surprising.
modogg
Footballguy
Learned about it years ago, was always funny talking to kids in high school and explaining to them what formaldehyde is actually used for. Was originally known as "wet". Don't know how accurate any of that is, but that was the cycle i saw with it, and learned across the city of Philadelphia between high school kids. Was something most didn't care about because they thought it was just another way to call Weed, but finding it dipped into formaldehyde helped to slow the popularity
ETA: was waay off. Getting old and tying to remain hip is a bad combo. kept the part about "wet" for the heck of it
ETA: was waay off. Getting old and tying to remain hip is a bad combo. kept the part about "wet" for the heck of it
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Doug B
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"New cultural stuff" stopped for me in the mid-1990s. I have absorbed some from my wife and kids and my nephews.
"Being around for a long time", to me, means "pushing forty years". Nothing from the 2000s -- that is, the year two-zero-zero-zero forward to today -- has been around a long time. Heck, grunge music still feels new to me.
Doug B
Footballguy
Even after checking in and out of the Grammys last night ... I still don't know. Wasn't Dua Lipa nominated for Best New Artist? Or something?
Gotta say ... the Grammys are a good place to catch up on stuff. That was where I first learned that Donald Glover and Childish Gambino were the same person a few years ago.
parasaurolophus
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Jayrod
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Major
Footballguy
Doug B
Footballguy
Same thing I told parasaurolophus upthread: I have almost no exposure to contemporary music or the culture surrounding it Where else would I have run across it? My clubbing days are long, long over. What's left?
Major
Footballguy
bostonfred
Footballguy
Drip is jewelry, mostly. Like gold or diamonds dripping off your ears, neck, wrist etc. Could also refer to expensive tech in some contexts like if you just got new headphones
Doug B
Footballguy
Which TV programs? The stuff we watch in the house never really touches on hip-hop culture.
The internet ... I'm not on any social media. Really, just three message boards that I've belonged to for about 20 years each (this one being the 'youngest' at 19 years or so). No Facebook, Twitter (except when others link to it), Instagram, Snapchat, no dating apps, etc.
Pop culture in general, eh? Yeah ... just as soon call it "living under a rock"
Doug B
Footballguy
Ah. So when "drip" was compared to the term "swag" upthread ... "swag" means something outside of hip-hop contexts. Generally, it means "cool stuff, especially cool stuff you get when being part of something -- a seminar, membership to a club, etc."
Major
Footballguy
This isn't the 80s/90s. Hip Hop has taken over pop music and essentially the same thing.Which TV programs? The stuff we watch in the house never really touches on hip-hop culture.
The internet ... I'm not on any social media. Really, just three message boards that I've belonged to for about 20 years each (this one being the 'youngest' at 19 years or so). No Facebook, Twitter (except when others link to it), Instagram, Snapchat, no dating apps, etc.
Pop culture in general, eh? Yeah ... just as soon call it "living under a rock"
Seems like you've answered your own question as to your lack of vocabulary. I say stay true to yourself and as long as you're happy, keep riding that out of touch, old white guy schtick. It'll continually make for a good laugh amongst your kids and you can embarrass the hell out of them with ease
massraider
Footballguy
When you see some little train wreck at Wal-Mart, hair all banged up, teeth a mess, clothes don't fit right, but she thinks she looks good? That's ratchet.Which TV programs? The stuff we watch in the house never really touches on hip-hop culture.
The internet ... I'm not on any social media. Really, just three message boards that I've belonged to for about 20 years each (this one being the 'youngest' at 19 years or so). No Facebook, Twitter (except when others link to it), Instagram, Snapchat, no dating apps, etc.
Pop culture in general, eh? Yeah ... just as soon call it "living under a rock"
Doug B
Footballguy
This I know. It's fair to say that I'm not much exposed to contemporary pop music at all. Just get some drips and drabs from the kids (and yet my daughter is into a bunch of 70s & 80s music). My personal listening choices are all throwback.
Usually when a recent pop song gets on my radar, it's been out a year or two already. Every so often I catch a song somewhere (usually at the grocery or in a retail outlet), and say to myself "I've heard that a few times recently ... let me see if I can catch a lyric and Google a title for it". Practically every time, it's something that came out the previous year or a even earlier.
Doug B
Footballguy
No doubt about it.
I don't mind not knowing the bleeding-edge stuff or the totally-underground stuff. But when a Grammys host drops a word into his patter as if its just known to everyone ... I wanna catch up in the moment, just so I can understand the gist of what was just said. I don't like that feeling of being left behind like that (though I understand academically why it happens and that it's inevitable).
Steve Tasker
Footballguy
Just wait until he discovers what a glizzy is
Doug B
Footballguy
I'm just gonna start hitting up Urban Dictionary and pretending I knew stuff all along
"Ratchet" actually has a Wikipedia article (which I know is ultimately crowdsourced, not like an Encyclopedia Britannica editor learned of the word and wrote that article).
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Brunell4MVP
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