Youthspeak

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The style of language used by young people, incorporating modern slang etc. uncountable

    "It was, to my surprise and dismay, months and months of quotes and quips I had read since the inception of the Facebook News Feed, now bubbling up from my subconscious in an inscrutable cacophony of youthspeak."

Example

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"It was, to my surprise and dismay, months and months of quotes and quips I had read since the inception of the Facebook News Feed, now bubbling up from my subconscious in an inscrutable cacophony of youthspeak."

Etymology

From youth + -speak.

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