We Searched For These 10 Slang Words the Most in 2024

Have you ever had a hankering for a tall glass of giggle water after work? A long day of making jack wears you out. You just want to come home to your snuggle-pup of a tomato and hope the bank's not closed.

If it was 1924, that's what you may have said if you wanted to have a drink after work and then spend some time with your special someone. And it sounds dumb, doesn't it? Yeah, that's because it's slang.

Slang words have been a part of our language in America since the beginning. And they have always sounded ridiculous.

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If this was 1880 you may say that the new general store in town is run by a dude who is some pumpkin, and if people don't believe you, you'd have to convince them you're not telling a thumper. In other words, the new shopkeep is a big deal and I ain't lying.

Dumb slang from the past can also find its way into our everyday language. 'Attaboy' started as 1920s slang.

As an aging Gen X'er, I am baffled by the outrage that my fellow 80s kids have about today's slang words. I would think that by now we all understand that kids come up with weird terms in order to establish themselves as their own group separate from the one that came before.

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Kids' slang is also for making fun of old people. I still believe that "homeslice" has always been an ironically used 90s term—a kind of slang shibboleth to identify the 'How do you do Fellow Kids' posers. I think the modern equivalent is "Skibidi." Just a dumb word for making fun of the squares.

I'm so confused when I see a viral picture of a list of slang words banned in a classroom. Don't they realize that by highlighting the words like that you give them power? You make them real. And you make yourself look just as dumb as the words.

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But, anyway, Gen Z's slang in 2024 sounds just as dumb to adults as our slang did in 1994.

The good folks at Word Unscrambler dug into this year's search data on Google Trends to find the United States's most searched-for slang words. All those confused adults trying to figure out what the kids are saying.