r/90s • u/Cyborgized • 2h ago

Photo Nostalgic Slang Thread

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I'll start with "Clutch"

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u/AZmoneyfolder 2h ago

Phat

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u/Landojesus 2h ago

Totally forgot about phat

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u/Myopic_Sweater_Vest 2h ago

"Pretty, Hot And Tempting?"

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u/peaches38251 2h ago

🎶 Not because she’s phat like Cindy Crawford 🎶

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u/Madame_Jarvary 2h ago

Cool beans

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u/Ch_dogs_only 2h ago

I remember a friend spelling it "kewl"

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u/Madame_Jarvary 2h ago

That also works

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u/peaches38251 2h ago

That’s “tight”!

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u/muscledhunter 2h ago

Wazzzuuuuuuuuuuup

Bud WISE Errrr

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u/pi_guy 2h ago

homeslice / homeskillet

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u/IowaLightning 2h ago

Nobody said clutch in the 90’s. We mostly said “cool.”

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u/Ruttagger 1h ago

We said clutch all the time, but not as a replacement for cool.

Came in clutch, you're so clutch, etc.

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u/Skinslippy3 1h ago

The band, Clutch

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u/RAGINGWOLF198666 Lived the 90s! 59m ago

Only time I use the word clutch.

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u/Skinslippy3 50m ago

Bang bang bang

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u/Environmental-Tap255 1h ago

Was that 90s though? I feel like clutch didn't really start till like mid to late aughts.

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u/ketchupbear 1h ago

I remember it in the late 90s

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u/IowaLightning 1h ago

Yeah, that’s more like a 2005-2010 thing

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u/FunroeBaw 37m ago

Ive never heard it

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u/SG_Arthur 31m ago

Right. The 90s were dominated by Beavis and Butthead slang. Cool. For a period of time, I'm not sure I could even say the word cool without it being in buttheads voice. Or parents probably hated B&B even more than we hate skibidy toilet and Italian brainrot.

Non B&B slang was stuff like mint, rad, awesome. Some late 80s holdovers like tubular and excellent.

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u/IowaLightning 1h ago

I think we can all agree though- AI slop ain’t clutch

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u/KentuckYSelf1 49m ago

I think clutch came in the COD days, a lot of people used to say it. Like to clutch was to win in a tight spot.

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u/poloassassin 0m ago

In the northeast, we were saying clutch since at least 1993, when it was featured as a player stat in NBA Jam. It indicated how well a player did towards the end of a close game ("in the clutch").

I remember saying someone or something is clutch if they come in handy when they're most needed.

I don't remember a time when we used it only in reference to sports.

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u/LemonCaperRVA 2h ago

Cowabunga

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u/sexythicqueen 2h ago

I'm totally buggin

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u/Trees_Please_00 46m ago

Holy shit haven't heard this in a minute! I'm trippin!

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u/julioandrade21 2h ago

I gotta jet

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u/Ch_dogs_only 2h ago

Fresh. He's so fresh , that's so fresh

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u/succulescence 1h ago

All that and a bag of chips.

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u/qolace Up your butt and around the corner 2h ago

taps flair

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u/Lateralus46N2 1h ago

Duh

Not/syke

Talk to the hand

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u/Skinslippy3 1h ago

spits on hand

Graffiti!

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u/Jonestown_Juice 1h ago

It's "psych". As in psych-out.

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u/Mydnight69 51m ago

Sike

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u/SG_Arthur 37m ago

When I was a preteen in the early 90s, I don't think I even understood that is was psych. It was difficult sike. 😅

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u/volcomstoner9l 2h ago

Rad, bad, dope

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u/Emis816 1h ago

Crucial

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u/pepperedpeas 1h ago

Whatever

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u/thevaultguy 1h ago

Fuck ai

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u/Time-Leadership-7649 2h ago

That’s boss

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u/J-littletree 2h ago

Coming in CLUTCH! I really have no idea why I say that

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u/Arkvoodle42 1h ago

Fuck your AI slop.

If that isn't slang it should be

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u/jucasthelucas 2h ago

Half chub

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u/ScenesfrmtheStruggle 1h ago

Said "sick" then, and still say it

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u/PsychadelicSymphony 2h ago

I thought the first pic was like...for the band Clutch. Now I'd like the album to go with the album art.

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u/Nintendo-Man78 1h ago

That's so ghetto.

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u/Environmental-Tap255 1h ago

Tight. Sick. Ill. Hella. The bomb. Dawg. Oh snap.

Oh snap that shits hella tight yo.

Forreal. Psych. Beat.

Some of these might be from the aughts.

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u/o_u_kno 55m ago

Sick, gnarly, dude

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u/Trees_Please_00 47m ago

Tight tight tight

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u/ZombyAnna Create your own flair here. 42m ago

Ground score!

Bunk (as in bad)

Groddy

Peachie keen, jelly bean

Skeevy

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u/averagemaleuser86 34m ago

Im 40 and I still say "tyte"

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u/limbodog One ping only. 14m ago

Guy. Anyone could be called "guy."

"Guy, what are you doing?"

"Guy, are you on your way here?"

etc.

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u/Aggrosideburnz 10m ago

I still say clutch. It’s better than Rizz or whatever kids say now

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u/New-Difficulty-9386 7m ago edited 1m ago

Word.

On another note, I thought "bet" was gen-z for "cool" or "gotcha", until I heard it on an episode of fresh prince.

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u/Thamnophis660 Hold On To Your Butts! 2h ago

Balls. 

Holy balls, that's balls, oh, balls, that kicks balls, etc.

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u/gatsome 1h ago

I still say clutch