23 AMERICAN SLANG WORDS that You Need to Know (AMERICAN ENGLISH)

hello guys welcome back to my channel today we're going to talk about American slang words that you have to know you don't have to necessarily use them in your speech but you have to know them because when you're gonna communicate with the native speaker with an American you want to understand what he wants to say so if you're interested please continue watching this video before we transition to naming those words I would like to remind you that one of the best things to do right now is to take your exercise book and write the words down because you're gonna be switching on different types of your memories so you're gonna be seen me this visual you'd be listening to me audio or comprehension memory and then when you're writing things down with your own hand this is another type of memory so please write the words down and comment below if you've been doing that the word number one is bail and bail means leaving abruptly so for example you went to the cinema with your friends and then you realize your homework isn't done yet and you say hey guys I'm sorry I'm gonna bail which means you're gonna go home and just finish what you had to do to feel blue is a pretty common phrase slang phrase in all english-speaking countries and to feel blue means to feel sad a buck and the buck is American for a dollar this costs 200 bucks right $200 give me a buck give me a dollar give me a buck the next expression is by the skin of my teeth so for example you were playing something and you hurt yourself but then you say I hurt myself just by the skin of my teeth which means yes it hurt but not a lot just barely seemed you've passed by the skin of your teeth creep Oh creep is a title that he give to a person who's really creepy that's a great exfoliation right it's a really weird unpleasant and strange person who is acting in a weird way for example you have a guy who's stalking you and stalker is another slang somebody who's following you who is trying to get your tension and because he's around you all the time doing strange things you're gonna call him a creep creep creep couch-potato should be one of my favorite ones because this is a person sits in the sofa and does nothing all day everybody has this friend who you call all the time and he's like uh I'm sorry I will be able to join you today I don't want to spend some time at home and you can call him college potato because he doesn't want to go out he just wants to sit at home and do nothing to crash which means to fall asleep uh properly and this happens to me every single day when I'm tired I go to bed and I just crash which means go to sleep really fast recording yes down to earth is actually an adjective and you can call a person down to earth when he's really simple he doesn't try to show off he's this normal guy he's really down-to-earth funny sound earth another expression that Americans like is for real for example you tell somebody that you're going to Europe and he's like Oh for real are you going to Europe this means honestly so instead of saying honestly you can say for real for real for real another slang phrase is the cold shoulder if you give somebody a cold shoulder means you are ignoring them on purpose so somebody is trying to reach out to you and you give them a cold shoulder which means you don't want to communicate with them I think giving me the cold shoulder another slang words typically American and I've been watching this movie called miss Sloan this movie is all about this slang phrase and this is the phrase Platt v this is very political thing so there's the Fifth Amendment to the American Constitution which allows you to not testify against yourself so for example imagine there's this chord and there is this guy who's accused of a crime and somebody is asking him did you commit this crime the guy pleads the fifth which means he says according to the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution I would not testify against myself so he won't tell anything because this infer me can be used against him so this is bleep v now let's go down to something a little easier and I think I've mentioned this race in one of my videos by the way I have a lot of videos about American phrases I have a video about 50 common phrases in English video about 100 common words in English and I have a video about 25 idioms in English the links will be below and please watch them after watching this video next phrase is screw up and screw up means make a mistake I'm sorry I screwed up I made a mistake screw that bad yeah sorry instead of saying nice and Wow and beautiful all the time you can say oh that's sweet which means that's nice but making your speech diverse using different words is actually really helpful for your vocabulary and really help other people because you don't sound the same all over again so write this down sweet means nice sweet tight this word can be used when you're talking about competition so tight competition means there is a really small gap between two competitors and the competition becomes really tight so it's really intense and they have to work really hard to surpass each other tight the next word is to trash you probably know the noun trash and trash is the same as rubbish rubbish as British trash as American this means all of the things that you throw away but to trash means to destroy something so for example he trashed his car means he destroyed his car maybe he had an accident and now he has to get a new ones he trashed his car wrap up is a word that I hear every day and wrap up means to finish something okay guys let's wrap up let's finish to hang out this is a word that you can use when you're relating to your friends you're inviting them to come over and you say come over to my place which means come to my place and let's hang out let's do something together you can also use the word to hang out to describe that you are actually not visit with anything simply sit at home and friend calls Ian asks were you up to which means what are you doing right now and you're like nothing just hanging out so you're just spending your time at home maybe you're watching youtube videos so nothing serious I'm just hanging out hang out another word that I love and that I hear a lot is wheels and you know wheels which means you know something that is rolling in your car but you can also use the word wheels instead of using the word car so I have my own wheels today which means today you're driving you're not taking an uber or a taxi and this way you can use the word wheels in the meaning of a car the next one you've probably heard thousands of times and the word is babe and you I would not recommend using this word but you need to understand so somebody if you're a female and somebody is calling you babe this is not really polite but this means that the person who's calling you babe finds you attractive and really hot to bust somebody to get busted means to be caught for doing something illegal something you were not supposed to do for example police busts burglars everyday in the streets of San Francisco police is everywhere they catch burglars or they catch people who are disregarding the rules so to get busted means to get arrested to be caught if you had a really good time watching this video you can tell your friends that you've had a blast and have a blast means to be really entertained to have really good time to really enjoy doing something so if you're enjoyed watching this video you can like it and you can come and blow oh my god Morita I had a blast this is a really cool video flash and the last word that I wanted to share with you today is epic fail an epic fail means complete disaster awful I'm laughing because it is used in the memes all the time in a formal meeting you won't really use the word epic fail but I don't know if your friends try to hit up on a girl try to flirt with a girl and the girl just told that she's married then that guy and epic fail that was a pretty epic fail they swear the slang words that I wanted to share with you today thank you so much for watching this video there are three more videos that I suggest you to watch the first is 100 common words in English the second is 50 common phrases in English and the third is 25 idioms in English that you should note to sound more American the links will be below please let me know if you enjoy watching this video and I will see you in the next logs please subscribe if you haven't yet the red button see you soon bye [Music]

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Length: 9min 28sec (568 seconds)

Published: Mon Jan 22 2018