Slang

freelance, v.

It actually started as a noun, as a renaissance equivalent to “hired gun.” You’re a lance, but you don’t belong to any doge. You’re free!

Isn't that cool? If you do freelance social media (like me) you actually should have a lance. According to some sources, you’re technically…

lit, adj.

The word itself sounds like a parody on slang. It’s the shortest a word can be (if we’re realistic), slang with minimal effort. Like “cool” was in the nineties, or “rad” in the 90s, lit comes from slackers.

emergency, n.

I have lived in New York almost three years and I have heard more sirens than most suburbanites will hear in a lifetime. Yet, I have never once passed through a door marked EMERGENCY EXIT and faced a sounding alarm. Never once. It never sounds.

serious, adj.

Serious is one of my favorite adjectives. In the figurative sense, it expresses a level of magnitude running perpendicular to its literal sense. “You got some serious catching up to do, Mr. President!”

sucks, intransitive verb

It’s hard to say where I first heard sucks. I think I knew it was a strong word at the first. It’s that striking…

dead, adj.

Dead is one of my new favorites on social media. I started seeing it late last year, posted mostly by my black friends on Facebook, in…