If you have teenagers or work closely with young people, chances are you've had mystifying conversations like this one.
Lit.
It means that it's going to be exciting or fun and that you should be there.
Like, that party's going to be lit.
My producer, Maggie Penman recently went on a slang finding mission in Washington, DC.
She ended up talking to a group of college students from american university.
Yeah, turn is another one.
Like, but like, I don't know what's turnt like, it's one of those words.
That you just can't really define.
You just have to use it in the context.
Turn.
It's gonna be lit.
Turn is used to describe lit.
So fun.
It'll be lit at 11:00 p.m.
and it'll be turnt at 01:00 a.m.
and then it'll be ratchet at 02:00 a.m.
what is the third one?
Ratchet.
Ratchet?