9/18/2023 0 Comments Epic meaning in nounIt was epic.Ī couple years ago, I took an epic road trip across America. We drove south on the Pacific Coast Highway. An epic movie, an epic sandwich, and epic sunset, and epic story or experience. What about ‘epic’? This is a much-used term, added as an adjective before anything, to mean ‘great’, ‘huge’, ‘awesome’, ‘the best!’ Non-slang meaning: it’s the past tense of light: to brighten, illuminate. So someone can be lit at a party, and the party can be lit. But it also has a different meaning, which has actually been around for a long time, and that is, drunk, intoxicated. This is how it’s really being used a lot by the younger crowd at the moment. This word also means ‘amazing’, ‘excellent’. A play on pronunciation on top of the play of the slang meaning. Now, if you’re using it as slang, I’ve heard that an alternative pronunciation is ‘crasp’. As a noun, in American English it’s a baked desert, some sort of fruit with a crumble on top, like a blueberry crisp. As an adjective it means, dry, brittle in a good way, the opposite of soggy. This is a common word outside of its slang meaning. What do you think of Emily’s new haircut? One of her students said it after a very compelling solution to a math problem when it’s presented. So my cousin, who is a math teacher, said she recently heard this term. Or sometimes a term will be developed, and then it takes a while to reach the US or a different region in the US. So sometimes a term will be used and then it’ll die for a couple years and then it’ll be revived again. Lots of slang that is current is happening in high schools so I went and looked up ‘crisp’ and I found a posting about it on urban dictionary from 2007, 10 years ago now. When I was planning this video, I posted on Facebook asking my friends and family what slang terms they’ve been hearing recently and my cousin, who works at a high school, mentioned ‘crisp’. So be prepared to use these and feel good and make other people feel good.įirst let’s talk about crisp. Today we’re going to learn some positive slang. If you’re not sure what slang is, watch the first video from the series where we go over the difference between slang and idioms. So this is the summer of slang in American English. I can’t wait for you to start using these words. So this is the summer of slang and today we’re getting down with crisp, lit, and epic! This video is going to be epic. YouTube blocked? Click here to see the video. See the whole Summer of Slang series here: Listen to the new podcast on slang: Īnd be sure to subscribe to the new podcast! Learn American English slang: crisp, lit, and epic.
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