What words do teens say today meant something different when their parents said it when they were teens?

stephanie: What words do teens say today meant something different when their parents said it when they were teens?
My sister can’t think of any words and neither can our parents.
An example she has is fly: for teens today it means cool or awesome but for parents it means to fly a plane or an insect.

Answers and Views:

Answer by Chelsea
gay, tight, dope……etc

Answer by ahnalee
Epic meant having to read the Iliad or the Odessy.
Beast meant bad, mean and ugly.

Today my kids use these words to mean awesome.

Answer by Brit
The word “gay” is a pretty obvious one. It used to mean happy, maybe even before your parent’s time. Then it meant homosexual, but now if a teenager says “That’s gay” they mean that’s stupid.

Answer by Yann Core
Sexism, racism…

Answer by I Pray
Cool
gay
gravey

Answer by Miggy
Wicked – used to mean bad or cruel, now means the same as awesome. Awesome itself used to mean something inspiring wonder or awe – and now means something’s very good.

Answer by Mike Rotch
Cod, back then it was just a fish.

Answer by Diane B.
Just look at some of the lists of current teen slang**.
Most of those words will be new or be different in meaning than say 20 or 40 years ago.
Some slang gets accepted permanently into the language though, or at least is recognized when used by those who are no longer teens.

**check some of these out with your parents to see which might be what you’re looking for:
https://www.google.com/search?q=teen+slang