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“Did you see what that hypebeast was wearing at the party? She must have mad stacks!”<\/p>\n
“But she ODed on the makeup. And did you see her boyfriend? He was twisted!”<\/p>\n
If this teenage exchange sounds foreign to you, you’re not alone. Teen jargon is constantly changing, making it hard for parents to keep up. Yesterday’s “cool” is today’s “swag.” “Bad” no longer means “bad”; it means “hot” or “sexy.”<\/p>\n
“Slang functions as a code to identify members of a group and keep others out,” explains Temple University English and linguistics professor Muffy Siegel, PhD. “The point of slang is for parents not to understand it.”<\/p>\n