Gone, but not forgotten. Bae is an abbreviation of the word "babe," and basically means a significant other. While its exact origins are unclear as is the case of many of the words on this list , it became popular on Black Twitter and Instagram as early as in the form of the hashtags baecaughtmesleepin and cookingforbae, among others. It eventually made its way firmly in to the mainstream after Pharrell released the song "Come Get It Bae" and Time magazine wrote an article about it , and several Urbandictionary entries have erroneously defined it as an acronym for "Before Anyone Else.
One Buzzfeed article suggested people should stop using the word because "bae is actually the Danish word for 'poop, crap, feces. Now there are white girls out in these streets calling themselves trap queens. White crooners like Ed Sheeran did an acoustic cover of the song. Wap himself performed it on stage with Taylor Swift. Blake Griffin had to break down what a trap queen the ride-or-die girlfriend of a drug dealer is in an interview.
And then the above video got made. There's nothing left to say. Trap Queen is dead. Long live Trap Queen. Ratchet is one of those words, like ghetto, that white people tend to use to describe anything and everything -- but especially things that aren't even ratchet or ghetto "Oh my god, my broken iPhone screen is totally ratchet!
It's a classist term for sure, but some white people seem to use it as shorthand for "black," as evident in the tone-deaf and wack Lil Debbie video above. That's not OK. Maybe don't. At some point this summer, Taylor Swift and her revolving door of bffs became synonymous with the idea of the squad. That's fine, that's great -- it's ultimately a pretty empowering idea that many women are using as a way to define solidarity. Slang changes as quickly as fashion does or as quickly as Heidi Klum claims fashion does on Project Runway : One day you're in, and the next day you're out.
It's almost not worth keeping up with what the cool kids are saying these days, because as soon as you learn it, they'll have moved on to shorter, more complex abbreviations. Sometimes, though, I realize I've still got it — like last night, when my father asked me, " What does 'finna' mean? The meaning is a little bit more similar to bouta , similarly contracted from about to. Be mindful that finna is a valid feature of African American English and it is not grammatically incorrect. Also be aware that the use of finna , while widespread in popular hip-hop culture since the s, can come across as patronizing, insensitive, or appropriative when used by people who are not part of African American speech communities.
This is not meant to be a formal definition of finna like most terms we define on Dictionary. Feedback We've Added New Words! Word of the Day. Ebonics is recognized by the vast spectrum that is the African diaspora and is intrinsic to black culture regardless of economic or social boundaries. Consequently, when words and phrases coined by the black community are commercialized and misinterpreted by a largely white audience that refuses to acknowledge its origin, black language is being appropriated and that is not okay.
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