| 1. | strapping young buck | ||
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From a 1976 speech by Ronald Reagan, who complained of "strapping young bucks" using public assistance to buy T-Bone steaks, the phrase is shorthand for "undeserving and lazy black people living off hardworking white taxpayers instead of getting a job." Many commentators have noted that the phrase originated from the auction block. Now used ironically by liberal commentators to identify racist dog-whistles in conservative argument. "Whereas once the problem was just welfare queens and strapping young bucks, now it’s the entire middle and lower classes, the lazy union members, the credit card deadbeats, the unemployed so content with their benefits that they don’t look for work."
'We Are All Strapping Young Bucks Now' Doug J. _Balloon Juice_ January 6, 2011 |
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| 2. | Cause I'm Young | ||
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I phrase used by young people, similar to yolo who enjoy living and want to do everything that they can when they have the chance instead of missing the opportunity and behaving like old/middle aged people when they could be having fun.
If this is properly followed it leads to the most memorable nights in your life. Jack: I'm going to a party
Jack's mum: Why? Jack: Cause I'm young Tom: Dude why the hell are doing this? Jack: Cause I'm young |
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| 3. | 9 to 5 | ||
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Hours most people work for a living Jeff works 9 to 5 so he can make a living
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| 4. | yup | ||
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Young Urban Professional You are a yup is you'r under 35, living in a big city such as NY, Paris, Rome, Montreal, Madrid, Milano and you are working in your first professional job. The job you studied to get.
You possibly own a condo or rent a nice appartment, you go out, you work... you take public transports, you travel... |
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| 5. | Young adult | ||
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a person within the ages of eighteen to somewhere in their mid- to-late-twenties when they are considered "more mature" they are often students or young people living on their own or with a flatmate, often thinking adult life is easy. They may see this as the best time of their life Hey let's go outt drinking at a club! We can now that we're Young Adults!
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| 6. | Man-Child | ||
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A term originating from Claude Brown's 1965 memoir "Man-Child in the Promised Land" about growing up in the streets of 1940s and 50s Harlem, NYC, one of the earliest and most powerful accounts of ghetto life and its culture. A "Man-Child" originally referred to a boy or adolescent from the streets who was prematurely exposed to and knowledgeable about sex, violence and crime, incarceration, adult responsibility for younger siblings due to a dysfunctional home, and hustling to make a living. You think life in the 'hood is rough now? Check out Brown's book one day. By the time he was 15 he'd already been locked up, hustling for a living and doing whatever he had to to survive as a man-child on the streets.
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| 7. | Young Jets | ||
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A group of teenagers from Louisiana, who have the most Swag in the whole Universe! Members of this group can be found from numerous high schools such as Ahs and Lhs. They're just some mellow kids that like living the Jet Life! (J)ust (E)njoy (T)he (S)wag= J.E.T.S Those Young Jets keep they're Swag on point!
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