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@sgtwhisker26

6 жыл бұрын

Is the word that I definitely know it’s from America hangover it’s created 18 years before our probation we also invented belittle

@JoseRamirez-pq2kv

6 жыл бұрын

Rain check is also when a store runs out of a product that is on sale and they give you a rain check which is a piece of paper that allows you to get that item at a later time even when it is no longer on sale at the sale price.

@haylyespin9134

6 жыл бұрын

Being British: Joel & Lia I love your videos so much! If you ever feel like coming to Geneva New York I'll give you the hometown tour and show you the best spots in my tiny town

@rubencanas4230

6 жыл бұрын

You invented it we perfected it

@ImIsGigi

6 жыл бұрын

Being British: Joel & Lia I love you guys !!! I live in Florida Joel ☀️... also bagsy is not a word Americans use ... and I’ve never heard anyone use zonked either lol

Well, I am older and “lit” meant “drunk” to us 🤷‍♀️

@juliemiller5521

5 жыл бұрын

From Long Island Iced Tea - LIIT

@joemckoy4760

5 жыл бұрын

Or stoned

@jameskernan4848

5 жыл бұрын

Lit up can mean excited, your right.

@christinasudba5033

5 жыл бұрын

It means two things.

@garyyantis5681

4 жыл бұрын

Lit, as lighting up weed.

"Rain check" comes from baseball, when they would reissue tickets because of rain. At least as far back as 1870.

@michellem9444

4 жыл бұрын

I've also seen it in stores, when they run out of a sales item. The store would issue a "raincheck", and you could come back at a later time to purchase the item at the sales price. Of course, I haven't seen these since the 1980's, so nowadays if they run out, too bad!

@kilroy2517

4 жыл бұрын

That makes sense, but it's become much more common to mean what Michelle M said, a document that allows you to buy something at the sale price after the sale is over.

@kilroy2517

4 жыл бұрын

@@michellem9444 No, stores still issue them.

@stuartjessie

4 жыл бұрын

@@kilroy2517 I think the stores "raincheck" comes from baseball, and the stores adopted it. Also, the appropriate usage is "Can I take a raincheck" not "Can we raincheck on tonight." And it's NOT to wait for a rainy day - it's to cancel due to rain. :)

@kilroy2517

4 жыл бұрын

@@stuartjessie yes, i agreed with fish wax, and I said nothing about its usage

Raincheck: Certain events when caceled due to rain would issue a "raincheck" to be used in the future when the event would then be done after the rain had stopped. This is an option to use instead of issuing refunds. The term now refers to any reason for cancellation and implies that the person is still interested(in the future) but not at the present moment.

@BAuclairImagery

4 жыл бұрын

We also use it in retail, if we are sold out of a sale item we write the customer a raincheck to get the item at the sale price another day when it's back in stock.

@stevebarrand2147

4 жыл бұрын

As if it is raining now, we shall try another time.

@stevenotjackramsey

4 жыл бұрын

You are correct - the origin of this term dates back to 1800s baseball games. If a game was postponed because of rain, spectators were given a voucher that allowed them to come back and watch the next game.

@vincentperratore4395

4 жыл бұрын

I once saw a sitcom where a certain family had issues with their maid and wanted to let her go, but didn't want to hurt her feelings any more than necessary. So they said to her, "Betty, you won't have to come tomorrow if it rains. In fact, you won't have to come tomorrow even if it doesn't rain".

@moniquemooney795

4 жыл бұрын

Also used for car washes. You can get your car rewashed for free if it rains within 24 hours of your car wash purchase.

Shotgun comes from the American“Wild West Days”. When someone traveled a long distance in a horse drawn coach, protection from robbers and hostel American Native Tribes was necessary. The person who sat next to the driver carried a shotgun in case they were attacked. So the guy in that position was referred to as riding shotgun.

@jrgboy

4 жыл бұрын

In those days the stagecoach's drove on the left, watch the old movies..

@lisahall5868

3 жыл бұрын

@@jrgboy where in their comment did they mention left OR right. Sheesh

@jrgboy

3 жыл бұрын

@@lisahall5868 - Just for info as many Americans don't realise many countries drive on the left..

@scitizenkane1

3 жыл бұрын

Americans don't realize? Lolol more than twice the amount of countries drive on the right than on the left. The only countries than drive on the left are the UK Japan and some of their commonwealth countries other than Canada and maybe malaysia or something. Don't make it out as if we think WE'RE the only ones who drive on the right, the same as not using the metric system.

@doomguy8324

3 жыл бұрын

I learned a new thing today.

So raincheck started in late 1800's-early 1900's. If you attended an outdoor professional sporting event like baseball, and the game was cancelled due to rain you were given a raincheck ticket to come back to another game. It was also used for sale items in stores. For example if a store ran out of the sale item you were given a rain check to buy that item at the sale price it is back in stock. Now most sale ads say limited time... It also means" not now, maybe later."..... sorry for the long explanation

@ThoseTwoBrits1

6 жыл бұрын

Ahhhh how interesting!! Thanks for the explanation!

@PyroPopCouture

6 жыл бұрын

Literally came here to explain exactly what she did. Thanks for that! :-)

@jhautz817

6 жыл бұрын

Yes. The rained out baseball game is the correct explanation for the origin of raincheck. I was about to post this same thing.

@Laikinin

6 жыл бұрын

PyroPopCouture i

@carolthecrazycamper3442

6 жыл бұрын

It then moved into retail when they sold out of an advertised item.

Vibe is short for "vibration". Whether something is or is not your vibe speaks to how well it resonates with you.

@ThoseTwoBrits1

6 жыл бұрын

Ahhhhhhhh that's it!!!!

@thebaron44

6 жыл бұрын

Also 'The beach Boys'...song... ''Good Vibrations''

@Marcus-Oh-really-yes

6 жыл бұрын

Like the Beach Boys' song "Good Vibrations." :-) kzread.info/dash/bejne/d5WWwcSemJOdeLg.html

@josecarrales2842

6 жыл бұрын

thebaron44 yes, very late 1960s and early 1970s. Sort of of the same era as saying one "digs" something. The parlance of hippies and the beatnicks before them.

@wellingtonsmith4998

6 жыл бұрын

Kwantomkaos, you've got a 70's vibe goin' on there

The American version of "bagsy" is "dibs." For instance: "I got dibs on that shirt."

@steelirony1622

4 жыл бұрын

Bagsy? That just sounds lame, I got bagsys on that shirt, vs DIBS!

@jessicawatson7360

4 жыл бұрын

STEEL irony just I bagsey that shirt.

@DaysOfSodaAndLantana

4 жыл бұрын

Also, saying “I call ....(whatever it is you’re calling rights to).” “I call the front.” “I call this chair when I get back.”

“Chill out” is a American saying as well.

The term shotgun is a reference to the days of stage coaches. There would be a driver and the one sitting next to the driver would carry a shotgun for protection.

@spidaman0112

4 жыл бұрын

I've heard in Louisiana we still have laws on the books regarding shooting shotguns at intersections

@DENVEROUTDOORMAN

4 жыл бұрын

Well there s the shotgun formation in football...

@weswarford8494

4 жыл бұрын

Exactly. The “shotgun” rider was hired to protect the driver and merch because bandits would rob the bank transports (stagecoaches)

@weswarford8494

4 жыл бұрын

Matt B And that is better.

@ZeroKool7140

4 жыл бұрын

The rules of shotgun are very simple and very clear. The first person to shout “shotgun” when you’re in sight of the care gets the front seat. That’s how the game’s played. There are no exceptions for someone with a concussion.

I'm American, from Missouri, and while I have said and heard "zonked" plenty of times, it's almost never on its own--it's always "zonked out"

@peggydeffley2194

4 жыл бұрын

Same!

@mstheroff

4 жыл бұрын

Fellow Missourian reporting in!

@tsalvo9290

4 жыл бұрын

Big facts

@jefffortner7943

4 жыл бұрын

Same here!! Plus I'm from Missouri as well lol I never just say Zonked haha

@jefffortner7943

4 жыл бұрын

@Kim Smith Go cards!! Lol

In the 80’s we used to say “lit” or “baked” for high.

@jmryniec3524

3 жыл бұрын

That's still what it means but it's become more generalized because it's thought of as good to be high. So lit eventually began to refer to just something thats good. But I think most people still use it to mean high as well

I’m 44 and live in Kentucky and I always though “lit” always meant drunk or high on something.

@aridianknight3576

4 ай бұрын

I’m genz and it’s still used that way it just has a different connotation

"Lit" actually WAS used as slang for "drunk" in the not too distant past.

@SummerLove316

4 жыл бұрын

Dan Wolfe drunk or very stoned off cannabis....that’s the only way I’ve ever heard it used.,

@theb3654

4 жыл бұрын

That's still what it means where I live.

@alyc1079

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah. I always knew it as drunk or high.

@lottie5038

4 жыл бұрын

Kc here

@Idfkleavemealone420

4 жыл бұрын

That’s how I remember it as well.

We formally give YOLO to you. Sincerely.......America.

@jessieshepherd9487

5 жыл бұрын

Jeff Anderson and we don’t want it back either. 😂

@dennyj8650

5 жыл бұрын

Agreed, except if used as a Warning!! YOLO, don't take that selfie at the cliff edge...Come to think of it, you may have "selfie" and "impacting" also....assuming you want them, LOL

@happymouth9318

5 жыл бұрын

really TAKE IT AWAY!

@Jordan-Ramses

5 жыл бұрын

Nobody in America uses YOLO without irony either, unless they're a douchebag.

@jwbmw6084

5 жыл бұрын

I still don't know what yolo is, someone help me, I have never heard it in my life.

I’ve never used “yolo”, ever. Vibe is short for vibration (energy or frequency). Sometimes we say things like “that guy has bad vibes, he’s creeping me out”. Lit has always meant high or drunk with anyone I know here in the US. Thanks for sharing.

I'm old and almost all of these slang terms have been around since I was a kid. Thankfully not YOLO.

@myyoutube945

4 жыл бұрын

Also, your "vibe" is your vibration. "This club is messing with my vibration. "

Shotgun... Comes from way back in the old Western days, stagecoaches would get robbed so a man with a shotgun would ride up in front of the stagecoach with the driver to help protect from robbers.

@ThoseTwoBrits1

6 жыл бұрын

Ahhhh that makes sense!

@amberhiggins6327

6 жыл бұрын

The interesting thing about shotgun is why we Americans keep it around, but yes its from the old American west.

@lacritzer3070

6 жыл бұрын

Plus most people are right handed so if you’re reaching for a gun, it’s probably holstered or stored on your right hand side

@rush3915

6 жыл бұрын

LA Critzer the side doesn't matter, it's just the front seat passenger... Brit shotgunners would be on the driver's left.

@carolthecrazycamper3442

6 жыл бұрын

Dang , I also thought it game from gangsters in twenties.

Americans will call "dibs" instead of bagsy. Like "dibs on that seat!"

@patriciagordon2

4 жыл бұрын

We in New England will say "hosey" instead of dibs. "I hosey the front seat of the car!"

@alliehurd9385

4 жыл бұрын

Patricia Gordon that’s funny...I’ve lived in New England for 40 years and I’ve never heard that word so I’m assuming it’s regional. We would typically use “shotgun” or “dibs”. Where in New England are you from?

@patriciagordon2

4 жыл бұрын

@@alliehurd9385 New Hampshire seacoast, born and raised 2nd generation. 1960's/ 1970's.

@alliehurd9385

4 жыл бұрын

Patricia Gordon I grew up in Southern NH (born 1980) and I’ve never heard that word before. I asked my bf who was born in 1969 and grew up around Worcester and he never heard it either so maybe it’s a NH seacoast word. How interesting!

@patriciagordon2

4 жыл бұрын

@@alliehurd9385 I googled to claim something first, to hosey something. Says possible origin from french word choisis. Which makes sense as my mother and grandmother spoke french. Alot of people came to NH from Quebec to work the mills

I’m from California and I’ve never heard the word “zonked” 😂😂😂

@maliamailangi5159

4 жыл бұрын

I’m in California and I’ve heard zonked plenty 🤣

@juliewhite7469

4 жыл бұрын

Have you ever seen "Let's Make a Deal"?

@karenwebb8358

3 жыл бұрын

It means dead ass asleep, to me😛.

@travisteller4712

2 жыл бұрын

I have NEVER HEARD this word until now. Lol 😂

@jackspeer2127

Жыл бұрын

Cause you are too young. back in the late 60s a new snack food hit the market called SCREAMING YELLOW ZONKERS. short lived but a huge hit. the snack was ok but the box had hilarious sayings plastered all over it. If you eat a zonker, you will get zonked.

Hey kids! I'm 50 and I've been saying Lit referring to being drunk since the 90s. I think the yungins 'have changed it a bit. Shotgun comes from the Stagecoach drivers right hand man who sat next to him protecting the coach from bandits or Indian attacks. Love from Phoenix, Arizona

@angelawitherington5579

6 жыл бұрын

Michelle Thomas Yes! I'm early 50s too, and I remember "lit" being used to mean drunk or high when I was in high school in the 80s. Raincheck is used like, "I can't do that today, I'll take a raincheck." It does imply rescheduling. Great video! So fun!

@michellethomas7140

6 жыл бұрын

Angela Witherington I'm enjoying these kids too! They are intelligent, well spoken, funny as all get out, and seem to be a little more open minded than many of the young people their age.

@dw3019

6 жыл бұрын

Yep, I'm American and 'lit' means drunk or high to me.

@PaigeWhitleyTBYG

6 жыл бұрын

Michelle Thomas yep, drivers drive and shooters shoot.

@michellethomas7140

6 жыл бұрын

Paige Whitley Haha and hopefully drive and shoot straight! !!!!

I’m 42 and lit has always meant a little drunk or stoned.

@kimberlierusk2136

4 жыл бұрын

It used to be

@theviolentbreed9463

4 жыл бұрын

Right, lit is only recent with high school/college kids

@lisastiles1408

4 жыл бұрын

I’m almost the same age, but forced to interact with youngsters 😉 They’re the ones that made “lit” also mean something amazing, what we would call “really cool.” We’re getting old!

@sheilagho2643

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, same

@mastiffmom2592

3 жыл бұрын

@@lisastiles1408 yes, I’m getting old AND so late. 👈🏼 My daughter told me that I was so late when I discovered the magical Sam Hunt. And obviously, this video is 2 years old...

I’m American. At the same time she said she was “zonked”, I was thinking to myself “I feel really knackered.” 😆 Total mind-flip there.

@lindagoyette2797

3 жыл бұрын

😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤘😂

Rain check is an American term that started years ago when baseball first started in the late 1800s. If the game rained out, you were given a 'rain check/voucher' to attend the rescheduled match.

When I was growing up in the 1970s, a rain check was something you got if you paid for an event or activity that got rained out. Like paying to go to the pool or a carnival, and a thunderstorm crops up and they have to close. They would give you a raincheck and you could get in another day for free (you received a ticket that you could present another day, I suppose a coat check is similar since they give you a ticket that you present to reclaim your coat). From my childhood to now the meaning has evolved to mean to reschedule and I don't know of any businesses that give actual rain checks anymore. Go figure. LOL I guess it's a rain check on the rain check. :D

@jaelynrae8836

6 жыл бұрын

There is a grocery store in Minnesota called Cub Foods that gives out rain checks for items that are out of stock! You can pay for it and get a "rain check" and come back and pick it up when they get their next truck in. No one really uses it but they have the option!

@alicee2952

6 жыл бұрын

I remember years ago when I was a cashier and had to write a rain checks for customers when the weekly on-sale item was out. It was so they could return after the sale was over but still get the sale price. I wonder if they still do such a thing.

@alicee2952

6 жыл бұрын

Jaelyn Richter oh man, I didn’t see your comment until now. Strange

@dw3019

6 жыл бұрын

Yes, especially at the carwash.

@emilyb5307

6 жыл бұрын

We use rain checks at the the grocery store where I work as well. Usually when we're out of stock and the sale is weekly. You'd be surprised how many people still use them. :)

The term shotgun comes from the old days when people rode in horse-drawn carriages and the passenger up front/top would have a literal shotgun for protection. So, in modern times, the shotgun spot became the colloquial term for the front passenger seat.

@SJYNYC

5 жыл бұрын

Correct!

@joycemessin4736

5 жыл бұрын

I believe Riding Shotgun originates specifically from Wells Fargo Co stagecoach bank transfers.

I love how his shirt was on sale and he said it was “reduced”😂

@kimdenoon6591

4 жыл бұрын

We use that term in Canada for something that’s on sale *reduced (in price)

@iceequeen626

3 жыл бұрын

On another video, Lia said that she likes to buy things "on offer," meaning on sale lol

Riding shotgun comes from our pioneer days when they travelled by stagecoach. An armed guard used to sit next to the driver; a shotgun was the preferred weapon for the job. So the person sitting right of the driver is in the shotgun position.

Stores also give a “rain check” when they are out of stock of a sale item so you can buy it at a later time

@gracecakes8241

4 жыл бұрын

Loretta Lay That’s where I first learned the phrase, at the grocery store!

@think2wice516

4 жыл бұрын

It comes from a baseball game when it got rained out and the game was canceled. They wouldn't give you a refund, but they would let you go to the make up game on a different day where you could use the same ticket.

@KS-ip5xn

3 жыл бұрын

yes, it actually started with anti "bait and switch" laws.

"Zonked out." I live in the southern United States and we say that when someone is sleeping hard.

@peggydeffley2194

4 жыл бұрын

Elizabeth Cameron agree, zonked must partner with out! Zonked out, dead asleep.

@inklanois

4 жыл бұрын

Same here. “Zonked out” is what we always said.

@FNJ720

4 жыл бұрын

Yup, my dad used to say it...

@alejandro-vr9gv

4 жыл бұрын

Really?? I've lived in florida all my life and I've never heard that before

@whoisjohngault3270

4 жыл бұрын

Southerner here - we say CONKED out

I can imagine walking into a party and saying "I'm so zonked that this really isn't my vibe, YOLO, so I'll take a raincheck"

Zonked? Hardly used here... “crash” crashed out is more the terms used That I’ve heard. I’m 68 years young. C60

@vincentperratore4395

4 жыл бұрын

A woman used that expression, meaning drunk, in a Robert Redford movie, called "3 Days of the Condor".

@TangoJPapa

3 жыл бұрын

Zonked is big in the US military

@KarenSDR

3 жыл бұрын

I'm 64 and I'd say "zonked out" but not "zonked" by itself.

@bryc7959

3 жыл бұрын

Crashed or spent :)

Vibe is short for vibration. meaning everyone has their own frequency.

@UltimateCakeLady

4 жыл бұрын

Even back from the Beach Boys...good vibrations. Duh! Lol Also, Someone can give me Good Vibes or I can be feeling someone's bad vibes.

@christinesclearancelife4407

4 жыл бұрын

That's from the 80s

@kristenpeterson3930

4 жыл бұрын

More like the 60’s!

@ashleygreen127

4 жыл бұрын

Vibe is it's own word, it's not derived from vibrations 😉

@ashleygreen127

4 жыл бұрын

@Aleta Harrington yes I know the definition..I was informing the person that said it comes from the word vibrations which is incorrect.

Most Americans hate the word Yolo as well.

@soglossytv9794

4 жыл бұрын

Yea really, wtf is yolo anyway sounds stupid

@tacojunebug6710

4 жыл бұрын

Soglossy Tv it means ( You Only Live Once ) I’ve never heard anyone use yolo.

@darinanderson9581

4 жыл бұрын

I think everybody hates the word yolo except for the people that use it in fact that word faded out quickly

@w12ath040211

4 жыл бұрын

I hate "that's cringe". 'Cringe' is a fucking verb not an adjective.

@christinesorensen8050

4 жыл бұрын

@Michigan Wolverine in Austin I haven't either. Lived in US 64 years and never heard it.

I like to listen to you guys “CHOPPIN IT UP” but sometimes Joel can be so “EXTRA” and Lia is more “ORGANIC” but then again Lia, your “BAE” is like telling his “”REAL REAL” so I can’t “THROW SHADE” on him for “KEEPING IT 100”. Y’all “GUCCI” 👍🏾. But for real, I love you guys 😄

In the Deep South we say "Lit up like a firecracker" which means drunk or high.

shotgun is from the old west. a man rode next to the driver of a wagon , as a guard against thieves

@shelleyabbott9897

5 жыл бұрын

Phillip Suttles oh I thought it was the get away car and the guy in the passenger seat had the shotgun to fire at police/guards to get away.

@petermsiegel573

5 жыл бұрын

At first blush, 'riding shotgun' seems to be from the old West, but it almost certainly isn't. It's actually seen in RE-CREATIONS of the Old West in shows and movies well into the 20th century. First reference appears to be 1919 for a street celebration in Ogden Utah; later references come from film.' Did they have guys riding shotgun on real stagecoaches? They sure did. But apparently without the phrase being used or perhaps noticed.

@sarge1231

5 жыл бұрын

Specifically he sat up front with the stagecoach driver with a shotgun in his lap.

Shotgun is because the person sitting next to the driver on the wagon could shoot while they tried to get away from bandits

@sassyfras4085

5 жыл бұрын

Actually I never knew where it came from. That makes sense though.

@drumphil7

4 жыл бұрын

It’s the person next to the driver on a stagecoach in the Wild West who’s responsibility it was to prevent robberies.

@jarhead21100

4 жыл бұрын

@@sassyfras4085 yup. Shotgun was a job, Not a seat really. It's hard to hit a moving target when your driving away from bandits. And a shotgun is more forgiving to a miss than a rifle. The drivers job was to get the wagon or stagecoach away as fast as possible. "Shotgun" had the job of shooting at bandits so they could get away.

@KindCountsDeb3773

4 жыл бұрын

But, in south, there are long, narrow homes called "shotgun houses" - because you could shoot right down the middle of it and not hit the sides. It's used a LOT.

@w12ath040211

4 жыл бұрын

It's also more like a game than an announcement. We used to have rules like you'd have to see the car to be able to say shotgun.

Back in the day a raincheck was a voucher one would receive when an event was cancelled due to rain.

“Okay,” or “OK” is also an American word, perhaps the most used word in any language.

@zzkeokizz

4 жыл бұрын

Mark Cocanougher O.K. Came from President Martin van Buren (1840). According to Google:He was named Old Kinderhook after his hometown of Kinderhook, New York. His supports shorthanded it to OK. I've also heard that van Buren was a member of the Old Kinderhook Society where the members referred to themselves as "he's OK" (he belongs to old kinderhook society)

@tejasmehetre

2 жыл бұрын

@@zzkeokizz As far as I can remember what I've read , "All Correct" Was mispelled 'Oll Korrect' and this is where OK came from .

Rain check actually comes from an old baseball term. If it rained and the game was canceled you would get a rain check which would guarantee you could see another game at a later date.

@ThoseTwoBrits1

6 жыл бұрын

Ahhh how interesting!!!

@michaelpytel3280

6 жыл бұрын

And if you go to the store but the product you want is out of stock, some stores give you a raincheck to buy the product when it comes back in stock ,maybe at a sale price.

@paulboy9101

6 жыл бұрын

Your ticket stub is your raincheck. The term may be before baseball though.

If we want something before someone else, we yell 'DIBS'

@virginiab4543

6 жыл бұрын

In New England we say, “Hozie”

@djg5950

6 жыл бұрын

Virginia In which New England state are you talking about ? I've lived in N.E. all my life (born in Mass. and in NH for 65 yrs.) and I've never heard of that word or have any clue what it means ?

@virginiab4543

6 жыл бұрын

deborah gracie -North of Boston for 60 years.

@djg5950

6 жыл бұрын

I was born in Brockton moved to Conn., then to NH when I was 3. So basically learned to talk in NH. I've never heard the word "hozie". What does it mean, exactly ? Same as "dibs" ?

@1tyrus

6 жыл бұрын

I'm not sure if this is a thing in America or not, but in Britain (at least in my family) it's usually the oldest person sits in the front.

"Sofa Spud*

@king_fresh27

3 жыл бұрын

LMAO

@spunstricken9065

3 жыл бұрын

I replied the same thing. Lol

I just found your channels and love you both. You have me cracking up! That is American for laughing hysterically. 😂

vibe = vibrations hence "it's not my vibe" meaning "not feeling the vibration man." It's from the sixties...

@paulboy9101

6 жыл бұрын

JR Snyder Jr - I bet VIBE is a jazz term from (vibraphone) as far back as the 1930’s. Are you hep to the jive man?

@txwaterbird6115

6 жыл бұрын

JR Snyder Jr I remember it well. What a neon decade. . .

@kimmer6

6 жыл бұрын

Beach Boys...I'm Picking Up Good Vibrations....

@rachelnanshija251

6 жыл бұрын

JR Snyder Jr yea, it's kinda tied to belief in chakras or energies and that woo

@goblinb

6 жыл бұрын

Totally New Age/Hippie.

I would only use "zonked" when saying someone fell asleep quickly and deeply (especially for a child) "Oh, he's zonked out"

@winterdreller5840

5 жыл бұрын

Catherine in Progress I’d only used zonked if I was a cartoon character

Funny story: when my son was a toddler, he talked a lot, but was really difficult to understand. I finally realized that it was so hard to understand him because he was speaking in a British accent and using British terms... because he watched so much Peppa Pig. He is 5 now and still uses the word “aeroplane” and calls the back yard “the back garden”.

@fionagregory9147

11 ай бұрын

It's garden not yard!!!!!!

RAINCHECK: means to reschedule, from sports events that were postponed due to rain on the original planned date.

Raincheck is also used for when a product is on sale and the store runs out you can ask for a raincheck and then when it's restocked you get the sale price with your raincheck. Originally it was from outdoor events that were rained out so you could come back and use your raincheck .

@dawnpreston3488

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I want to say the origin has something to do w baseball games that got rained out

@LadyPenumbra

6 жыл бұрын

Molly Yeah, even in relatively rainy areas, we have more sunshine than rain. So we would have outdoor sales, sidewalk sales, and parking lot promotions. Most of the time, no problem at all. But as you said, if you got flooded out you still had to sell the merchandise at the price you advertised. I remember my grandmother getting pieces of paper from stores with promissory notes on them. As soon as she went back to the store, out came the notes. Clerks in the back, looking for her stuff, and there would be 20 more ladies with their rainchecks waiting in line.

Most Americans don't like Yolo ....we ain't friends with ppl that say Yolo either!!

@mirzaahmed6589

5 жыл бұрын

What if they're from Yolo County, California.

@anonymousone7465

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah its always been cringy, douchebags and wannabe rappers were the only ones trying to use it.... lasted maybe 4 months before folks realized it was lame and moved on...lol

@ironmaven1760

5 жыл бұрын

True....it's lame af

@jessicalopez9206

5 жыл бұрын

It sounds like something The Kardashians would say

@maria.a9419

5 жыл бұрын

LMFAO zonked and yolo are canceled

Also, a southern variation of “zonked” is “plum tuckered”... I know you like the southern slang

Omg you guys are adorable! I love watching British shows just to compare our differences in words. I love how you guys say like “got out of hospital” and Americans always use the word the before like “went to the hospital”. 😆 and University we say “are you going to college lol. I love it 💜

Shotgun referred back to days of stagecoaches, there was a person with a shotgun to protect the coach and riders from highway robbers, who sat beside the driver.

I’m American; I have not heard anyone use the word “zonked” in decades, and only then by Brits. “Bailing” comes from fighter pilot slang, who use it to refer to parachuting out of a disabled plane; you “bail out” of a bad situation (although now it just means to leave). “Vibe” is short for “vibration”. If it’s “not my vibe”, it means something’s happening on a “frequency” (i.e., general mood) I don’t like, or respond to. “Raincheck” comes from baseball games, which are cancelled due to rain. Ticket holders are given a “raincheck” for a game on another date - which may or may not fit their schedule (hence the sense of a tentative commitment). “Riding shotgun” comes from stagecoach days, when the person next to the driver had to hold a gun to guard against robbers.

@theOlLineRebel

5 жыл бұрын

I use "zonked". Exhausted.

@macleadg

5 жыл бұрын

Hmmm. Maybe it’s regional?

@addie_midwife

5 жыл бұрын

I'm in TN and hear it used (and use it) on at least a weekly basis. May be regional.

@dmlchannel3262

5 жыл бұрын

Excellent explanation. Thx.

@emilearabo8377

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah that little kid played all day, he's zonked out... No?

I'm a new subscriber. You two are the cutest!! 😊❤🤗

Instead of couch potato I like couch camping. You sit on the couch all day on your pj’s, with your blanket and snacks, and binge watch tv. 😀

You don't "rain check on" something, you "take a rain check on" it. It basically just means "let's postpone this for later". In the US, a rain check is what you get from a store if a sale item is out of stock. It's a voucher that lets you get the sale price even after the sale ends, once the product comes back in stock. I think the name started from outdoor events, where if it rained, the event had to be canceled; you'd get a rain check so that whenever the postponed event happened, you could get in without paying for admission a second time.

@WyattRyeSway

6 жыл бұрын

You can take s rain check

@jab3593

5 жыл бұрын

You can also say "can I get a rain check to your friend, meaning let's try to do this again at a later date.

What do you call the kids of "couch potatoes"? Tater tots!! 🤣😄😅

"Zonked" means either 1. That one is exhausted and in deep sleep, or 2. Drunk.

I think that raincheck means that if it's raining you can do whatever you were going to do when it's not raining. Like a check from rain.

Pretty sure vibe is short for vibrations. Good vibes is good vibrations, bad vibe is bad vibrations... like how hippies interpret your overall energy as a person.

@NorthernPlainsAero

6 жыл бұрын

Absolutely right. In Star Wars they could have said, "I'm getting really bad vibes about this." to say the same thing as, "I have a bad feeling about this."

@hamblinta

6 жыл бұрын

Correct...Beach Boys/“Good Vibrations”

@karicoffey2743

6 жыл бұрын

Vibrations. If you had the same vibe, you're on the same wavelength. Like feelings 😉

@meliabanta296

6 жыл бұрын

Also when you are on the same vibe as someone you can say you're vibing.

@testfire3000

6 жыл бұрын

@Theresa Hamblin Exactly my thoughts. I don't think the Beach Boys invented the phrase but more that they popularized it. "Good Vibrations" vs bad vibrations eventually shortened to good vibes, etc. It was the Beach Boys who made it into the common language.

As a matter of fact in much of the US the word "lit" does mean someone is drunk or high or as we say over here "hopped up" on something.

@chrislain1349

5 жыл бұрын

"Lit" and "weak" have a totally different meaning with the younger generation...back in the 90's "weak" was slang for "lame" or "pathetic" etc. "Lit" was slang for "high" or "drunk".

@hannahrene2751

5 жыл бұрын

I didn't know that and I'm from America, huh, you learn something everyday

@skornthesnake6935

5 жыл бұрын

Was searching for this comment because I thought I was crazy. In my party years, me and my friends would be drinking/smoking out and someone would say " man I feel like getting lit". So we'd make a call and get some cocaine. So thanks for the validation

@lilbigisis3807

5 жыл бұрын

Chris Lain I agree. I've heard lit means high or drunk, but in my experience it also means so completely angry/P.O'd. Like they said "Sparks flying" but not in a good way, by any means.

@duke9555

4 жыл бұрын

@@lilbigisis3807 could mean in baseball a pitcher is being hit about / In boxing when a boxer is getting the worst of it in a punch exchange ........he's being lit up

It's so cute how you use "vibe" hahaha

We use lit in a different way. When we say lit it means somebody is high

Riding shotgun comes from way back in the 1800s when the person who wasn't driving the horses for the wagon, stagecoach, etc. held the shotgun to protect against robbers in the wild west. Also a common practice in Australia at the same time.

@candidopharm

6 жыл бұрын

Dope. Appreciate cha.

@chiprick992

6 жыл бұрын

Still applies to modern prison buses in the US, the front seats behind the driver is blocked off from the rest of the bus and the person sitting there is a guard with a shotgun.

@darleneh608

6 жыл бұрын

Riding shotgun is something that even my cocker spaniel understands. When I'm in the passenger seat, I say "Shotgun!" and she sits in my lap.

@chrisinidaho4569

6 жыл бұрын

Brits won't understand that. They're "all hat and no cattle". LOL

Yolo is said ironically in America too 😂 it’s cringy here too.

@Rainb0wzNstuff

5 жыл бұрын

Yolo #######

@mikehogan5824

5 жыл бұрын

48 and its never been used by me

@VernCrisler

5 жыл бұрын

Never heard of it. Must be a sub-culture word.

@emilearabo8377

5 жыл бұрын

I thought Yolo was cocaine..maybe that's yola

@lindagoyette2797

3 жыл бұрын

@@emilearabo8377 you must be thinking of Yayo or just Yay for short lol

Hey, now, you say we ruined the dictionary... and then you say "more of you and less of us"? It's "FEWER of us."

@DrBell-gi7bf

3 жыл бұрын

No... It's actually whatever got the meaning across.

Raincheck comes from baseball, if the game was rained out they'd give you a ticket to the rescheduled game.

Since it rains in England every day, maybe you should say "suncheck".

@jaakmazin1853

5 жыл бұрын

Carlos Konstanski actually this summer it like never rained in the north of England our rivers were dried up it was really bad we had to conserve water

@diarmuidstarrs8205

5 жыл бұрын

Lucky in Scotland we get snow in March/April

@rhondarobinson1932

5 жыл бұрын

If you buy a ticket for a baseball game and it gets rained out you will be given a "raincheck" which is a ticket to be used at a later date. Raincheck is also used for sales at clothing or variety stores if the store is out of a sale item you can ask, "do I get a raincheck for this?", meaning "Will I still get the sale price when you have it in stock?".

Lit used to mean high.

@djg5950

6 жыл бұрын

Can be used that way, too. I was really lit means drunk. Or can be used to mean angry. Anything that elicits excitable or reactive behavior.

@donkeysrevenge3512

6 жыл бұрын

Lit originated in the early 90s. It meant you were high.

@Ratguitar58

6 жыл бұрын

Dena Uzunkaya : True! Lit used to mean drunk, stoned or high. Not yet Shitfaced, just pleasantly inebriated.

@superboldstinkerbell8034

6 жыл бұрын

Lit, in that form, is from legitimate. Bail, is from nautical removal of water also parachuting/military, (I would say nautical was first)typically when things went tits up.

@debdoug4136

6 жыл бұрын

Dena Uzunkaya high or drunk. Ah the '80s

So rain check comes from our drive in movies. If you buy tickets to watch a move outside and it rains when it starts then the theatre gives you a rain check to come back

I absolutely love listening to both of you talk! The accent!!!

"Bailing" comes from pilot lingo. A pilot "bails" out of an aircraft that is going down.

@ThoseTwoBrits1

6 жыл бұрын

ahhh really?? How cool!

@michellethomas7140

6 жыл бұрын

Yes this is the correct term!!!

@embroiderart6131

6 жыл бұрын

You can also bail out of a boat. Kind of a double meaning because a person can bail out but also, if your boat is taking on water, you use a bucket and bail water out .

@paulboy9101

6 жыл бұрын

A military term from WW2 and may be WW1 for sure. What did RAF or Royal Naval Air Service call ‘Bailing Out’?

@geoffdearth8575

5 жыл бұрын

You can see the proper way to bail out of different aircraft of WWll vintage on You Tube (before ejection seats).

"Shotgun" comes from the stagecoach security who would ride next to the driver with a firearm.. usually a shotgun. They didn't call it that back then, and the term was coined in Hollywood

@thomasmann3696

6 жыл бұрын

And it's a shortened version of "I'm riding shotgun."

@LadyPenumbra

6 жыл бұрын

Shotgun, refers to riding in the shotgun seat, next to the driver. And the term was used as early as prohibition. Moonshiners and smugglers were criminals, couldn't call the cops if another gang robbed them, so they went back to the ways of the old west (which wasn't that old back then). I can't say for sure if the term was used in the age of the stagecoach, but it didn't originate in Hollywood. It predates talkies, motion pictures with the spoken word.

@garkmoncher

6 жыл бұрын

BeckiWitte it's actually short for shotgun messenger or, more correctly, express messenger who were hired by the stagecoach companies in the lawless west. The term was first used in a book in 1905. I meant Hollywood as a colloquialism.

I like the mic drop line lol!! We could definitely chill lol!! I like saying that lol!

I remember using vibe at least 50 years ago. Like saying " I get a bad vibe from that dude." Shotgun comes from the post civil war era. Where we expanded westward and stage coaches were a main way of traveling. It was dangerous at times with outlaws and they put a man next to the driver with a shotgun for protection.

I have lived in America my entire life and I have never heard the word “zonked” before. 😂

@taylorannemade1388

5 жыл бұрын

Regan Spinks same from Florida.

@janetteeditvideos8684

5 жыл бұрын

Me neither

@winterdreller5840

5 жыл бұрын

Regan Spinks same

@larrymotes227

5 жыл бұрын

Regan Spinks zonk is used in the military

@bambamnj

5 жыл бұрын

Zonked has been around for ages. Used in a sentence, I went to check on Bob but he was zonked out on the couch. It's been around since at least the 1970's

Riding shotgun is from the old west stage coaches. The guy next to the driver keeps a shotgun in his lap and his eyes on the treeline.

Rain check , was always something relevant to food missing from a grocery store. Like if there was a sale item and you went to buy it and they were sold out. They would give you paper that the manager singed and then you could back later on in the week and still get that item at sale price.

My mom called my brother a “Chesterfield Pumpkin “!!! LOL

Shotgun refers to traversing the "wild west" on/in a carriage in the 1800s. To defend against wild animals, natives, and robbers along common trails, an armed man would sit to the right of the man steering the horses. Usually, the weapon of choice was a shotgun. Hence the term "riding shotgun", or just "shotgun".

@Slivings911

6 жыл бұрын

Matthew Kreider yes, exactly.

Shotgun originated from when American Settlers heading West would have someone with a shotgun ride in front of the wagon along with the person guiding the horse to keep a look out. At least that's what I've heard.

@22dramamama

6 жыл бұрын

I was wondering if someone would point this out.

Bail out comes from jumping out of an airplane. It came back into fashion when skateboarding was popular, when you intentionally abandon a trick/stunt rather than face plant. Skaters shortened it to "bail."

Thank you Joel and Lia, I have now learned three ways to get out of explaining myself, which I hate doing. 👌

The expression of "Riding Shotgun" came from the Wild West in America. The carriage guys that drove would have a guy next to them with a shotgun. Hence riding shotgun.

@amandaravello

6 жыл бұрын

Stephanie Abney you learn something new everyday

@littleboots7629

6 жыл бұрын

While i was in the Miltary Humvees have horrible side mirrors so shootgun was the person who shot out the window and told thw driver if a car was coming

I've never used the word zonked in my life!!

@whatabouttheearth

6 жыл бұрын

Stonemansteve II I know its a term used in the army...soldiers love it

@connorackley5530

6 жыл бұрын

I always say zonked out

@PamelaMMBerkeley

6 жыл бұрын

I use it, but usually you use it with "out" unless it's past tense. I.e. I'll go home and zonk out now. Or Yesterday I just zonked.

@CatherineLHaws

6 жыл бұрын

Never heard of it before!

@jadarose6938

6 жыл бұрын

I thought it was Australian slang

Ulgh I have to subscribe to you now because I've watched 3 of your videos today. Lol I do like you guys.

Shotgun "Stagecoach days" during the American old west "Shotgun" was the guy who road next to the driver to protect the coach....

Ok. Here's my take. Lit DOES usually mean drunk or high. Umm "Bail" comes from a pilot bailing out of a warplane. Rain check is from Baseball (i think) Baseball games sometimes get "rained out" and you get a "rain check" for the make up game. Shotgun actually goes all the way back to the 1800s. On a coach, or wagon (especially if it was carrying valuables) you had a driver, and then sitting next to him was a guy with a shotgun to defend the coach if needed. Everything else is spot on! Well done!

@hazcatsophia

6 жыл бұрын

Your explanation of “rain check” sounds about right. They also use it when they are out of something on sale at a store.

@GreatLakesSurfer

6 жыл бұрын

Yep, I was looking for a comment about "bail." I've always pictured a skydiver bailing out of an airplane but a pilot ejecting and bailing out sounds right too.

@DJ_BROBOT

6 жыл бұрын

No... Not all if these. Bail is used in alot of hip hop music and that use there carried over into popular culture as in 'bailing' out of a situation of some sort

@edwardadler154

6 жыл бұрын

You're right about "rain check". It originated from baseball games being rained out and part of your ticket to the game had a "rain check" included.

@victorwaddell6530

6 жыл бұрын

Edward Adler. You're right about "riding shotgun" .

I've never heard "bagsy" before, but it sounds like calling "dibs."

There are several definitions of rain check. The definition that I’m familiar is, when a store is having a sale and they run out of the product, they give you a rain check. When the store gets the product back into stock you take your rain check in and they will give you the product at the sale price.

Depends on the state or region you're from. Northern California, we never say zonked.

@LouieLouie505

3 жыл бұрын

“…we never say zonked…” What a strange assertion- to claim which slang is used by hundreds of thousands of people you’ve never met. Does make sense to say that you never say it, though.

Actually, us old folks (I'm 63) used "lit" back in the day to mean drunk. Also I've always taken "raincheck" to mean an even that was cancelled and will be rescheduled due to weather.

@cindland

6 жыл бұрын

yes lit also means drunk and predates the meaning ""amazing".

@heidimsw

6 жыл бұрын

I’m between the ages of Vickie and Laura, and I used to use “lit” for drunk all the time.

@harrk327

6 жыл бұрын

"Lit" means you're drunk

Joel and lia are lit!!

@ThoseTwoBrits1

6 жыл бұрын

agreed!

@teddyhowell5962

6 жыл бұрын

Hip

@teddyhowell5962

6 жыл бұрын

Dreaded88 where you live... the term is still roaming in the DMV

@paulboy9101

6 жыл бұрын

Lit means ‘Drunk’.

@teddyhowell5962

6 жыл бұрын

Paul Boy that’s one meaning... but there is another..

Rain Check comes from baseball. When a game was rained out they would give you a rain check to attend when the game was rescheduled.

Rain check is also used if a store is out of a sale item. You go top the service desk and get a rain check to guarantee you can get that item when it is in stock at that same sale price anywhere from 14-30 days later

Shakespeare used the word "nap" in Richard III. "Good lords, conduct him to his regiment: I'll strive, with troubled thoughts, to take a nap, Lest leaden slumber peise me down to-morrow, When I should mount with wings of victory:" Speaking of mic drops.

We always used “lit” for being drunk or high

@tinkerbelle1119

4 жыл бұрын

Lit could mean drunk or high as in I was so lit last night. Or when I saw him/her last night he/she was lit AF Or could also mean awesome or amazing as in the party was lit or that concert was lit.

@Learnamericanenglishonline

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, that's the way it's used. I've never heard it used any other way. I got so lit last night!

@joseph2332

4 жыл бұрын

English is always changing🤷‍♂️

When I was younger, the word "raincheck" was a paper that the shop would give you to use the next week when you intended to make a purchase at a reduced sale price or with a coupon, but the item that you were looking for happened to be out of stock. The paper would grant you permission to obtain the item for the reduced price even after the coupon expired or after it was no longer on sale. Also, saying "let's get lit" means "let's get high" (under the influence of narcotics or alcohol).

In California there's a county named Yolo and I always chuckle when I see the sign. (In this case it's a word from the Yatwin language.)