A third of those predate gen z. The complete nonsense words are definitely on them, though.
I think every word ever started out as something that was nonsense to everyone, except the first two people who used that word.
Ruru
No cap fr fr
But isn’t OPP other people’s… property or has that changed since Naughty by Nature taught us all what it meant?
No, it just shouldn’t be capitalized. It’s short for “operative” and usually refers to somebody you think is (or jokingly think is) working for/with the cops or feds.
It’s “Opp,” not OPP
Sounds like Narc would be the translation then…
Narc is more specific, opp is more general, so the youngin’s have opted for opp.
Every narc is an opp, not every opp is a narc.
But yeah, I think narc is closer than “enemy”, probably
It’s “opp” with two p’s but it’s short for “operative”, a word with one p? I’m starting to think that you don’t really know either.
Yeah and “rizz” comes from charisma but isn’t spelled “ris.”
And “OP” has multiple existing potential meanings still in common use today, so it makes sense to me to spell it with flair for the sake of clarity.
Slang is complex and morphs as it travels though; so do some folks use opp as “opponent”? Sure, that’s believable. But I feel fairly confident (never fully confident; I am fallible after all) that it’s original use comes from AAVE and more specifically hip-hop, where I again feel pretty damn confident it refers to an operative and not an opponent.
If I am wrong though, I would love to be corrected (with some verification of some kind) so I can be sure to reconcile the new info and not spread misinformation again. I’ll happily await your evidence to that end.
so do some folks use opp as “opponent”? Sure, that’s believable. But I feel fairly confident…
Bro, it doesn’t even have the right number of P’s for your reasoning to make any sense.
It comes from “opponent,” that’s why there are two P’s. It comes from video games/chess/card games/etc where you refer to the person or persons you’re playing against as the “opponent”. It’s been happening for many years but has made it’s way into gen z slang.
Perhaps there’s a case of parallel development here, but I really don’t think that’s what happened.
Gamer slang has long borrowed, sometimes sincerely sometimes ironically, from AAVE and hip-hop slang, where I truly believe this originates, and clearly has the cop/fed connotation. Yeah, I know people shorthand “opp” as opponent in games in the same way they shorthand everything, but jesus christ that’s more approaching 1337 5p35k customs than gen z/alpha slang, so even if we do assume parallel development and concede opp=opponent in modern gamer slang it almost certainly is pretty unrelated to said archaic use and was likely homespun in zoomer/alpha games like Roblox or Amung Us or whatever they’re playing now instead.
But hey, while I remain unconvinced I am proud to accept my fallibility and ask everyone to remember that I am just some stranger online when weighing the weight of my opinion and to draw your own conclusion on the matter. I do not claim to speak gospel.
It’s not operative. It’s opposition.
That’s where my mind went, too. I’m 40.
The last p, well… that’s not that simple. It’s sorta like another way to call a cat kitten. As for the ladies, OPP means something gifted: the first two letters are the same but the last is something different; it’s another five letter word rhymin’ with cleanest and meanest.
My high school Algebra teacher was once telling the class about ZPP, the zero product property. He told us when he was teaching in the 90s, there was a new song out called OPP and he would say “you down with ZPP?” and the class would say “yeah you know me!” lol
Penist!
Is it just “OP”? Like how online forums starting Reddit say “original poster” and this just snuck its way into all conversation?
As a younger millenial I gotta say some of these are ours. We were calling things “extra” since like '06. Vibe is as old as the hippies, and mid is weed slang from like the early 2000s.
Wait, those are real?
Unfortunately
I apparently live under a rock.
That’s a dope-ass list, shit’s ill af. Just don’t be bitin someone else’s stilo, cuz that shit’s wack, yo. If ya do, just tell ‘em “my bad, b!”, or expect peeps gonna be poppin caps in your ass, ya heard?
Word to ya motha.
Wicka wicka Slim Shady. Uh… leave Britney alone!
Yes, Cuban B!
Bruh
sup. /the ‘p’ is silent and the vowel becomes elongated with a drop; off. “SUh h”
“I feel old”
Picture of something printed on paper
I shall share a stolen… I meant a borrowed meme
Does ‘else if’ become ‘cap nocap’?
Only in that context, it loses the meaning they’re trying for if you’re not using it exactly like that.
List is hella whack
So you’re playing a little Playstation, huh? That’s whack! Playstation is whack! ‘Sup with the whack Playstation, ‘sup?!
where skibidi?
Thought that was Alpha gen.
It depends, it’s generally used by gen z to mock gen alpha, though some of the youngest genz do use it regularly
It’s not a real slang term as far as I’m aware, it’s just a mock slang term that showed up because skibidi toilet happened to also be a meme around the time zoomer slang became a meme.
Whats the oldies equivalent?
GMod.
yes yes
I seem to recall when they were translating “grunge” slang and it was also mostly bullshit not actually used.
Does double for drug slang. It’s either decades out of date or just plain made up
How am I supposed to ask for my yellow bentines now?
I’m a very late millennial, borderline Gen Z, and even I feel like all my slang knowledge is outdated.
Opp? How can I explain it? Take it frame by frame it, to have y’all all jumping, shouting, saying it? O is for other, P is for people, scratch your temple, because the last P? Well that’s not so simple…
You down with OPP?
You know me
Opp as in opp(osition)
No actually the last P is sort of…well another way to call a cat a kitten, it’s five little letters that I’m missing here. You get it on occasion if the other party isn’t gaming. Seems I gotta start explaining. You ever had a girl and met her on a nice hello? Get her name and number then left feeling real mellow? You get home, wait a day, she’s what you want to know about, but when you call up it’s her girlfriend’s or her cousin’s house? It’s not a front, it’s just her boyfriend is at her house. It’s OPP, some Other People’s when you get it, there’s no room for relationships there’s just room to hit it. How many lemmings out here know just what I’m getting at? Who thinks it’s wrong because I was splitting and co-hitting that? Well if you do that’s OPP and you’re not down with it, but if you don’t here’s your membership.
It’s a work of art you’ve done here.
I have only heard that word in a single thing in my life, it’s some British song with the following lyrics:
“Tea and biscuit hunting, opps are good at nothing…”
Wait till these dusky dewdrops get the vespers when they see my cut of cabbage.
/c/accidentaldeelite ?
:: grooves to sick bassline and funky beat ::
:: slide whistle ::
:: grooves to sick bassline and vocal samples ::
/c/ihadastroke ?
/c/duskydewdropsgetthevespers
The fuck is “cheugy”? How the hell do you pronounce that?
I’ve heard my BIL pronounce it “chew-gee”
today is a terrible day to be literate in english
I literally had never encountered the term “cheugy” until I first played Pokemon Scarlet/Violet, in which the old principal asks you what kids these days meant by “cheugy”. I had to look it up. Sadge
I think the Gen z column is more like ebonics. B rad from the boo would approve
Not uncommon for a term to start in AAVE and then later cross over into wider use. Drip is definitely an example of this.
Here I thought OPP was other peoples pussy…
Original Poster’s Pussy
As for the ladies, OPP means something gifted The first two letters are the same but the last is something different It’s the longest, loveliest, lean- I call it the leanest It’s another five letter word rhymin’ with cleanest and meanest
Yeah you know me.
