Washed? Is this some hip new slang term?
I feel liked not knowing this one makes me, well, washed...
this post was submitted on 02 Jan 2025
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Are you sure? With my knees, you'll need to help me up again.
yeah I don't even joke about hurting my knees.
People will laugh when someone gets kicked in the balls, but seeing someone fall onto their knees is all pain and no schadenfreude.
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Only like 20-30 more years before I can unironically quote this irl.
You can be old at any age depending on who you're talking to lol.
Don't worry it'll fly by in no time
Yeah I just said that unironically yester . . the other . . . damn
New to me too. Washed sling meaning Washed up or past your prime. We old.
The term washed up originated in the early 2020s and gained popularity in 2021.
As an old head, I’m pretty confident that “washed up” was used long before 2020.
About a century before, Merriam-Webster cites the first recorded use in 1928.
All the new slang is just abbreviation, e.g. based, riz.
Everything has to be shorter, because gnat-like attention spans.
We used to use spent when we were too lazy to say washed up. Or fucked.
But you can’t use 4 letter words or your social media will get de-emphasized and your referral traffic will be ~~washed~~ fucked.
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Washed up has been in use for a long time. I have no idea how they decided it was a 2020 invention. Some AI search probably told them so.
they're off by a full century
There was a joke about it in 30 Rock, where a teenager tells Liz her boyfriend is "totally washed" and she's like, "typical", while secretly looking up the word on the in-show equivalent of Urban Dictionary.
Sounds like she was streets behind.
oh dip! molotov cocktail
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not really, it's short for washed-up, which has been in use for at least a century
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/washed-up
Why do we need to shorten a two syllable word?
My knees hurt.
We don't need to. But we do it anyway for ease of language flow. See: Every single contraction, some of which don't even reduce syllables. Just contacted to make the tongue say it faster.
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Washed up maybe?
Nah. Billy Joel (with Stevie Nicks) put on one of the best concerts I've ever seen.
I saw him a few times, but his last tour with Elton was my favorite. One set of Billy playing Elton songs, one of Elton playing Billy songs, with the last set duets. Great show. Wish I caught one with Stevie Nicks!
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I do believe that everything old was better, everything new stinks, and my feet hurt all the time.
Funny you should say that. Near the end of WSB's 1953 novel "Junkie", IIRC, the main protagonist complains that he doesn't understand the slang of the new generation anymore. For example their use of "that stinks!"
You mean “Junky” from William S. Burroughs?
The guy with the metal detector in the background haha
I think he’s just poking a rock with a stick.
Must be Gen-X.
Oh, maybe. Hours of fun either way!
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What happens if I tell them I like CCR, Johnny Cash or Sinatra?
You go to decrepit ranch.
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