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Word: youthspeak (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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Usage:

...through hip-hop and the Internet, words travel so fast that white middle-class boys and girls in London are talking like black kids in the ghettos of Harlem and Compton." The speed with which Blinglish expressions are coined may signal disappointment for bofs (old people) trying to decode youthspeak. Brap (cool) and wix (wicked, as in good, but even cooler) these dictionaries may be, but they're already old school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: There Will Always Be a Blingland | 11/13/2005 | See Source »

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