I'm old. What's the drip if not an STI?
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You would never say "the drip". You just say "drip", i.e. "that boy has drip"
It refers to stylish clothes in particular, as well as a general stylishness and swagger.
Is the word "cool" just good enough anymore? Shouts the Old Man at the sky.
Be grateful that "cool" is still in common use. One fine day, we may wake up and find people think of it the way we think of terms like "the bees knees," "keen," or "swell."
But those are so specifically old that they're used ironically or as a joke. And sometimes that happens enough that they get unironically re-injected into local slang.
This happened around here with "cool beans" lol.
Whatcha doing today? Workin' on the truck. Cool beans. We were gonna run into town for a box of beer, you in?
I think you'd be looking more for 80s ninja-turtles style slang like "radical", "gnarly", etc. Or overuse of stale slang like "yeet"
Amusingly even "radical" can still be relevant as an adjective to describe an 80s retro vibe now. Slang and the relative cringe levels of it are pretty bizarre.
I would also submit "BITCHIN'" as one of those that can be taken out of long-term storage, for special occasions.
I... I still use "the bee's knees."
Use it with pride, my friend, for you, yourself, are the bee's knees.
Wow! Aw! Thanks!
There's still kindness in this world.
"Cool" is from before the time of probably any of us on here-- the 1930s! It's possible its usage might have slightly shifted over time (?) but that one just doesn't go away.
Meanwhile expressions like "radical," "bad," "on fleek" (ugh) didn't last long.
Cool people still use cool. And I think that's cool.
I heard someone use 'cold' in place of 'cool.' That was the moment I instantly became a Shouting Old Woman.
I think you mean "rizz"
“snazz”?
I think you mean "yeet."
You're stylish. You ooze style. It's dripping off you.
Honest, having dealt with decades of bullshit like "fleek" it's nice to encounter a wave of slang that makes a little bit of sense.
Wait, fleek isn't an STI?
As it turns out, it you post a line that starts with "some" and contains "told me" soon thereafter, my brain tries to add a tune.