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[NathanMcMahon]

The realization of my irrelevancy, at least as it relates to hip and cool culture, hit me like a ton of bricks yesterday. I'm a 33-year-old college student, and while I never really feel that out-of-place in my classes or at school in general, I came to know my own mortality, or at the very least, my own 'cool' mortality.

Sitting in class, we did a group project to get to know one another better. A separate group from mine, mentioned the word "ratchet" and
everybody laughed. I immediately knew that it was a slang word but I had no fucking idea what it meant.

I asked someone sitting next to me, "what the hell does that mean?" She explained it to me and I still don't understand. I promise to never use it in a sentence, young GAF. But hey, why don't you tell me some other newer words so I can beef up my vocabulary.

Fuck. I'm old.

 

[SeanR1221]

YOLO

 

[Harry Potter]

lol that's sooooo ratchet

 

[Double D]

Take this opportunity to tell me what ratchet means.

 

[Snkfanatic]

Huh...today I learned what Ratchet means. I too am old and find myself looking up slang all the time now.

 

[AbortedWalrusFetus]

Urban fucking Dictionary.

 

[Genesis Knight]

Urban Dictionary is your friend, OP.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Ratchet&defid=3515910

 

[Khalifa Jayy]

You know what's crazy? I'm 24 and I knew this thread would be about that damn word. I don't know how I knew... But I knew. That word is completely nonsensical. I firmly believe some people just say it to try to fit in. It's idiotic.

 

[Talon]

Swerve

 

[Conciliator]

You know what's crazy? I'm 24 and I knew this thread would be about that damn word. I don't know how I knew... But I knew. That word is completely nonsensical. I firmly believe some people just say it to try to fit in. It's idiotic.

Welcome to slang.

Spoiler

yolo

 

[NathanMcMahon]

But they seemed to imply it was positive. And the Urban Dictionary makes it out to be negative.

 

[base shagohod]

Why is your post formatted so strangely, OP?
It's funny, people use ratchet in so many different ways. It's confusing as shit.

 

[LeleSocho]

The realization of my irrelevancy, at least as it relates to hip and cool culture, hit me like a ton of bricks yesterday. I'm a 33-year-old college student, and while I never really feel that out-of-place in my classes or at school in general, I came to know my own mortality, or at the very least, my own 'cool' mortality.

Sitting in class, we did a group project to get to know one another better. A separate group from mine, mentioned the word "ratchet" and
everybody laughed. I immediately knew that it was a slang word but I had no fucking idea what it meant.

I asked someone sitting next to me, "what the hell does that mean?" She explained it to me and I still don't understand. I promise to never use it in a sentence, young GAF. But hey, why don't you tell me some other newer words so I can beef up my vocabulary.

Fuck. I'm old.

Why the fuck have you divided the sentences like that?

 

[Double D]

Urban Dictionary is your friend, OP.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Ratchet&defid=3515910

-repeatedly use ludicrous terms such as "YOLO", "swag", "boost", "beaking", "doe", "really", "naw", "actually", "twerk", "coaster", "dagga", etc., to make a valid statement when they speak

Now I guess I need to look up all the bolded.

 

[enzo_gt]

OP is dripping swagu

HUH

 

[Dr_Boris_Goltz]

I'm 26 and this is the first I've heard of that particular slang.

 

[Shadybiz]

S'okay...a few years ago, I consulted a dictionary for the definition of the word "epic," to make sure I wasn't missing something.

Spoiler

I wasn't.

 

[Switch Back 9]

I m 27 and as far as I knew "ratchet" meant a gun, a pistol or handgun specifically. But I feel you OP. I'm in college as well and am the oldest person in my classes. It hard me the hardest when we were discussing 9/11 and of my classmates piped up and said "I don't really remember it, I was only in grade 2 at the time."

 

[Jill Sandwich]

Make up your own slang, boschle!

 

[mingus]

I've never heard ratchet being used like that. On a different note, can anyone from Maryland explain to me what "cised it" means? Is it short for circumcised it? what does that even

 

[Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew]

This thread is making me feel pepto.

 

[apesh1t]

I start school in a few days, and I'm 32....

I saw some kid with those big raver jeans, like with the belts and chains hanging down from them. I though, man, those were popular when i was a teen.....then I felt old.

But kids still wear those big raver jeans with like a colored stripe down them?

 

[Conciliator]

Make up your own slang, boschle!

I like your principle but you really need something more pronounceable than that.

 

[Duane Cunningham]

I'm so old, I hear Ratchet and don't even think this:

But instead, this:

 

[zethren]

I assume it's because a "ratchet" is a "tool". So ratchet is just an evolution of the slang term "tool" used in a more specific sense.

It's still a dumb word.

 

[cubanb]

This thread is streets ahead.

 

[R2D4]

Reminds me of this thread.


http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=498302&highlight=

 

[Ezalc]

20 here, first time I've heard of that word in a situation where it doesn't relate to a videogame series or a type of axe.

 

[Switch Back 9]

This thread is streets ahead.

Had to Encarta it.

 

[Mechazawa]

Don't worry OP. I'm 20 and I've never heard the term used. I bet those kids are just gigantic ratchets.

 

[Effnine]

I've never heard ratchet being used like that. On a different note, can anyone from Maryland explain to me what "cised it" means? Is it short for circumcised it? what does that even

I'm pretty sure "cised" is what the Sports Junkies use all the time to describe the fact they are excited about something happening. They are all from MD, so, that may be what you're thinking of.

 

[Grimsen]

Swerve

Damn, hard to decide who's cooler. Ratchet is awesome, but Swerve's such a rebel.

 

[Grinchy]

I feel your pain, OP. I'm 29 and in college, and I feel very similarly whenever there's some dumb group project we have to do. I had a 3 hour biology lab last semester. I would say, on average, the 3 other members of my group were on their phones looking at facebook/instagram/whatever for at least an hour and a half of it. They would talk about "musicians" like 2chainz and I would just sit and nod politely while doing the bulk of the work.

It's very hard for me to relate to a youth that spent their entire life on the internet.

 

[Horseticuffs]

I'm 33 also and I always look up any new slang I hear and, if I like it, appropriate it for my own use.

Like a last year when I started throwing shade and putting motherfuckers on blast

 

[Ultima_5]

i'm 21 and i have no clue what that means

 

[Magnus]

Why the fuck have you divided the sentences like that?

What? I don't understand this.

 

[Jill Sandwich]

I like your principle but you really need something more pronounceable than that.

Well that cuts the yield

 

[NathanMcMahon]

What? I don't understand this.

I had it formatted different and did a stealth edit.

 

[MyEpitomeCliché]

Kids don't actually use the word "feels" in public do they? That's just an internet thing, right? Shitty slang is shitty.

 

[Ourobolus]

I have a stroke every time I scroll by the "Pics that give you Feels" thread.

 

[Jibbed]

Kids don't actually use the word "feels" in public do they? That's just an internet thing, right? Shitty slang is shitty.

I overheard some guy in his 20's using it the other day at uni, it's already begun.

 

[WanderingWind]

I knew it was going to be about this word. I, too, struggle with oldfuckitis. Hip-hop GAF will help.

But stay away from Pop GAF. The language they speak is basically Old Tongue used to communicate with unknown horrors from the darkest depths of the cosmos. Like Mariah Carey.

 

[Ace Harding]

Is this one of those words that if a white person says it its kinda racist? Like if Don Imus was using it to describe someone?

 

[Burger]

Sounds like how Kiwi's say "Rat Shit" and the meaning fits too.

 

[robot]

Did "mint" ever come back, cause I really like that one. Never went away in my vocabulary, that's for damn sure. I don't even know if it counts as slang.

 

[More Fun To Compute]

What a tonsils thread.

 

[Voice of Reason]

I totes agree with you OP.

 

[Parch]

Cool has an expiry date. Since the youngest generation determines what and what not is cool, eventually you'll reach an age where you will never be cool again. As soon as you stop trying so hard to be cool, life becomes much more fun laughing at those who do.

 

[Protein]

I can't wait till words sound utterly hilarious to us in our grandkids generation.

Yo that shit is shazbot.

 

[Jackben]

ratchet 1299 up, 2067 down
a hood rat, or person thats just out of hand or out of control for no reason and dont give a fuck what you think. a person wild'n out or doin somethin ridiculous cause they can. like BUY NEW RIMS FOR YOUR CAR WHEN YOU AINT GOT NO JOB OR GOIN OFF AT WORK ON YO BOSS WHEN YOU KNOW YOU NEED THAT JOB... a word to describe a certain type of ghetto person...
MANE THE FOOL TOO RATCHET FOR THAT...

Ratchet 2883 up, 4748 down

Raggedy, dirty or jagged, etc.

Your hairline is ractchet.
That car is ratchet.

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