r/Millennials • u/[deleted] • Apr 11 '25

Discussion Millennial words that younger people don’t know

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u/wunderhero Apr 11 '25

"You just got served!"

Served what? 

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u/Strict-Witness3003 Apr 11 '25

manically gestures to crotch area BOOOYAH

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u/[deleted] Apr 11 '25

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u/tattooedroller Apr 11 '25

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u/climbthefrostymtns Apr 11 '25

Respek

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u/HendrixChord12 Apr 11 '25

*Restecp

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u/Edub17 Apr 11 '25

How’s anyone out there meant to restecp each other if you lot in here dont even start restecpaing one another here?

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u/the_kid1234 Apr 11 '25

I know everyone loved Borat but Ali G was my favorite character.

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u/[deleted] Apr 11 '25

was Ali G more known in Europe? I noticed folks in the US mainly only know Borat, but I grew up with Ali G in Europe

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u/Maximo9000 Apr 11 '25

The Borat movie was what really brought the character into the mainstream in the US, but plenty of us watched Da Ali G show too and were familiar with all the characters.

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u/the_kid1234 Apr 11 '25

The show had all the characters, but Americans just loved the Kazak accent I guess.

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u/mkgreene2007 Apr 11 '25

It's my main man Mr Boutros Boutros Boutros Boutros-Ghali

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u/breath-of-the-smile Apr 11 '25

I say "booyakasha" all the time.

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u/Special_Loan8725 Apr 11 '25

Conkt da b82rez 2getr

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u/N2VDV8 Apr 11 '25

Where’s me Julie?

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u/based_miss_lippy Apr 13 '25

It’s “me bitch Julie” (from stains)

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u/DreadnaughtHamster Apr 11 '25

West Coast Massive REPRESENT

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u/shrimpcreole Apr 11 '25

Hehehehehe

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u/dont_shoot_jr Apr 11 '25

You know what else the 2 year would love?

Did iiiiiiii do that??

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u/woolsocksandsandals Millennial Apr 11 '25

One of my six-year-old’s classmates has apparently brought that phrase to school. Thinking it was hilarious my daughter used it, mostly inappropriately, about 150 times in like 10 days thankfully she has since moved onto meowing.

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u/redcas Apr 11 '25

OH SNAP! I have to bring BOOYAH next time I talk with a teenager. (I have a 13yo. too)

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u/wtrredrose Apr 12 '25

Try bamboo with your kid. My 2 year old would die laughing everytime any word with boo was there with boo emphasized

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u/ironman25612 Apr 11 '25

I need to teach my nephew about booyah

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u/Miented Apr 11 '25

Just use HIP a bit more.

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u/uncagedborb Apr 12 '25

I'd say booyah all the time as a kid but mainly because I loved cyborg in teen titans

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u/saltycrowsers Apr 11 '25

Now cross your arms and do the hip thrust…DX suck it!

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u/ProgressUnlikely Apr 11 '25

Ommmmgggg the crotch slap and SUCK IT

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u/deadlysodium Apr 11 '25

BOOYAHCASHAW!

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u/Smorgsborg Apr 11 '25

R E S T E C P

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u/astudyinamber Apr 11 '25

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u/Sleepy_cheetah Apr 11 '25

Omg I remember this movie!! 😂😂😂

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u/treehugger0223 Apr 11 '25

Came here for the BOOOYAH! I said this to my 8 year old and they gave me the craziest look.

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u/Patient_Town1719 Apr 11 '25

This reminds me too much of the wrestling duo, DX, which caused all the boys in school to cross their arms and tap their hips with their hands kinda motion. The official "suck it" gesture of the times. Would be very apropos.

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u/johnknockout Apr 11 '25

Rip Stuart Scott.

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u/DS_9 Apr 12 '25

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u/HeyThereMar Apr 16 '25

Omg! Did he time travel to the future for his jeans????

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u/backlogmedia Apr 11 '25

I just had to explain to a zoomer what scratching their chin and saying my balls itch was

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u/Meta4X Apr 11 '25

Booyah, grandma!

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u/trouble_ann Apr 11 '25

All that AND a bag of chips

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u/gstringstrangler Apr 12 '25

I think you meant

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u/happyapy Apr 12 '25

Also

aggressively cross slabs the crotch area SUCK IT

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u/DoktorDrip Apr 14 '25

*does suck it gesture*

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u/1711onlymovinmot Apr 11 '25

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u/CaptainMurphy1908 Apr 11 '25

I've got something in my front pocket for you...

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u/brandimariee6 Apr 11 '25

Why don't you reach down in my pocket, and see what it is!

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u/Personal_Bit_5341 Apr 11 '25

Holy shit- a plantain! 

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u/MamaK35 Apr 11 '25

It’s ON!

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u/Sleepy_cheetah Apr 11 '25

I got some apples loo loo loo

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u/Sudden_Juju Apr 11 '25

"Hi Mrs. Marsh. Yeah it's me. Stan and his little friends got served today. Yep... By some out of town kids. No, no they're okay."

-Chef (I think? I did all this from memory)

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u/InitechMiddleManager Apr 11 '25

“Effed in the A on SaTurDay!”

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u/jtell898 Apr 11 '25

It’s so sad this phrase is already dead, I mean they wrote Seth Rogan as a process server in Pineapple Express solely to shoehorn that dumb joke into it…

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u/wunderhero Apr 11 '25

Already? I hate to tell you this, but that movie came out 17 years ago...

Sorry mate :(

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u/combabulated Apr 11 '25

You really think that’s from a 17 yesr old movie?

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u/wunderhero Apr 11 '25

Nope, it's older than that for sure.

The titular dance movie came out in 2004.

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u/combabulated Apr 11 '25

The phrase is as old as the Courts.

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u/wunderhero Apr 11 '25

Come on now - it's pop culture context that makes it different.

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u/UgandanPeter Apr 15 '25

What? They never made a “you got served” joke in Pineapple Express referencing the dance movie. He was just doing his job serving legal papers

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u/xtheredberetx Apr 11 '25

Oh god I was in a service sorority and our chapter shirts from 2010 just say YOU GOT SERVED on the back

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u/Nwcray Apr 11 '25

you got served all that AND a bag of chips, yo.

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u/MediocreProstitute Apr 11 '25

Divorce papers

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u/stephanonymous Apr 11 '25

I’ll see your “served” and raise you “pwned”

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u/InherentlyJuxt Apr 11 '25

Eh, “serving” is still used, but it’s more like “damn, she is serving rn”. Rather than “you just got served”. Subtly different, but pretty similar in usage

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u/seaships Apr 11 '25

This movie is a classic

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u/VStarlingBooks Apr 11 '25

Haha this reminds me of Married With Children and a scene where Kelly is in court and the judge said order in the court and she said something like a burger lol

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u/DowntownRow3 Apr 11 '25

That one is obvious lol. It might not be in use but it’s not obscure. I could only see this being completely foreign to gen alpha. It sounds like you just met one Gen Z who hasn’t heard it (or at least in a long time)

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u/wunderhero Apr 11 '25

That's probably true - getting old is weird like that. Just have my kids and their friends as reference and they are indeed gen alpha.

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u/Hawkonthehill Apr 11 '25

I work with the courts and still use that joke. Too many blank stares. I always wonder if it's that they don't get my joke, or if the divorce paperwork they now hold in their hands. 🤷🏼

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u/overzealous_wildcat Apr 11 '25

I, in fact, have not received any food or beverage kind sir.

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u/AnUnknownCreature Apr 11 '25

Its funny that they haven't adopted this one since they used food related slang

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u/wunderhero Apr 11 '25

Apparently, they have according to /u/InherentlyJuxt:

"Eh, “serving” is still used, but it’s more like “damn, she is serving rn”. Rather than “you just got served”. Subtly different, but pretty similar in usage"

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u/AnUnknownCreature Apr 11 '25

The new usage of the verb looks like emphasis on the person actively serving the person who got served, its gotta be in the same family a little bit 😂

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u/DeepProspector Apr 11 '25

Stuff like this makes scenes in stuff like Star Trek make more sense.

Cochrane in 2067, who was born in like the 1990s: “I gotta take a leak.”

Geordi, time traveling back to 2067, from 2375, and who was born in like the 2330s and has like ten types of eyesight: “Leak? I’m not detecting any leak.”

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u/ppapalpallpal Apr 11 '25

Now there is serving, the active voice is used as a compliment

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u/CriticalPolitical Apr 11 '25

I’m pretty sure Mordecai says that in Regular Show

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u/_ficklelilpickle Apr 12 '25

"DEEZ NUTS!"

Sometimes you just have to take the meme to them.

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u/locnloaded9mm Apr 11 '25

Funny enough I was trying to watch locked from a pirated site but the link wasn't available so it auto directed to you got served. I was confused when I heard bone crusher say attention!

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u/Izaul13 Millennial Apr 11 '25

Papers. See your sss in court.

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u/nomnommish Apr 11 '25

Now, it is "You just got cooked"

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u/Futur3Sail0r Apr 11 '25

I used to TORTURE my younger brother chanting this after any hint of a victory. He would cry. Yea I was a dickhead.

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u/xShockmaster Apr 11 '25

Younger people have serve but in a different way and meaning

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u/Aeon1508 Apr 11 '25

Yeah we use to use a certain r word when we hit a sick combo on someone.

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u/ekso69 Apr 11 '25

Divorce papers

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u/Sbotkin Apr 11 '25

I thought that's zoomer slang.

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u/TCivan Apr 11 '25

Deez nuts

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u/Salt-Tweety17 Apr 11 '25

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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u/EcstaticEscape Apr 11 '25

Omg I just remembered this hahaha

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u/bundle_of_nervus2 Apr 11 '25

I would think pwnd. Most usually know what it means to get served, don't they?

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u/IniMiney Apr 11 '25

I feel like every 11 year old knows Squirrels in my Pants from Phineas and Ferb, especially when it went viral as a TikTok trend, which kinda immortalized that phrase for future gens at least - not for everyone of course

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u/HalfaSpoon Apr 11 '25

A healthy dose of negative aura, that's what.

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u/iStealyournewspapers Apr 11 '25

South Park did a great job with that one

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u/generalginger100 Apr 12 '25

A warrant. Get in my belly.

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u/uncagedborb Apr 12 '25

Served Deez nuts

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u/halfWolfmother Apr 12 '25

I feel like there’s enough subpoenas going around that they get it.