Millennial Lingo That Needs To Retire Early

’goals’,’ ‘adulting’, ‘hack’, here’s why you are no longer cool

Now let me get this out- I don’t know what the cool kids are saying. Leave me with a bunch of Drake-listening, fidget-spinning teens who say things like ‘You’re from the 90s, right?’; and I would be ‘lost boots’ in a maze of ‘lits’ and ‘turnts’.

This is because Gen Z has a real gift- a gift for churning out new words or utterances, their nature akin to their hectic lifestyles. There’s a new word on the block faster than you can say emoji.  Exhibit A: ‘Bae’ was probably made up by a time-crunched teenager, who had to make the tough decision between texting his girlfriend and writing a college application. Snap Trap.

This is a list of seemingly mainstream words used in print journalism, beauty blogs, conversations, travel posts and yes, Instagram captions. These are words that I (may be) equally guilty of using, cringe every time I hear it or are just so dated they need an emergency replacement.