Your Chick-fil-a might have been “clutch,” but for all I know you just like gripping your fast food tightly. It’s extremely awkward when someone drops a new slang word they saw on Twitter and no one knows what they’re talking about. For example, according to Urban Dictionary, “on fleek” means the exact same thing as “on point.” Apparently, we can’t describe our eyebrows with just one expression. Twitter addicts are running out of new slang so they have started making up synonyms for pre-existing slang. I find myself looking up a new expression on Urban Dictionary every other day because I don’t know what “salty” or “based” means. The words just flow off my tongue even when I’m not 100 percent sure of what they mean. Being the lazy teenager I am, urban slang slips into my casual conversations all the time. Scrolling through my Twitter feed I’ve noticed our generation struggles to compose a thought without adding “slay,” “bae,” “thot” or any of the other hundreds of slang words that infiltrate our daily conversations.
Is it a verb? Is it a noun? An adjective? The answer: we don’t care enough to decide. The casual usage of “swag” has escalated to the point where mockery is no longer relevant, and people use the word to mean anything they want. When people first started saying “swag,” they were mostly mocking the few who said “swag” seriously to describe how cool someone or something was.
I first came across the expression “swag” when my friends were talking about how much Justin Bieber said it roughly two years ago.
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