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That Came Out WrongTeen Slang Edition

Name: That Came Out Wrong: Teen Slang Edition
Author: Adrian Morel

30 words your teenagers use, and how never to say them in front of their friends.

This time, the foreigner is you.

“Feel my aura, boys! I’m sending you all my aura!”
“Jake! Love the new haircut. You look so chopped!”
“Hello, my little Delulu! Tell the girls about your singer!”

Every week your kids bring home a new word. You hear it at dinner, in the car, on the touchline. One day you try it yourself, and the whole room goes silent.

Same format and same dark humour as the rest of the series: the scene, the line that came out wrong, what the word really means, how teens use it, and the verdict. Can parents say it? Usually not.

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The 30 words
in this book

From words every teen uses to words that are already dead. Each one comes with a verdict for parents.

Minus a Thousand AuraauraGlobal word · same everywhere
Fresh Out of the Barber’schoppedInsult · handle with care
Since Four O’ClockcookedEveryday
Compliments to the ChefmidInsult · handle with care
A Little Treat for the CoachglazingTeasing
A Quiet Night Incrash outEveryday
Grandad at the RitzrizzCompliment
Where Are the Crumbs?ateCompliment
Based on What?basedCompliment
The Gambling ProblembetEveryday
The Cool UncleuncTeasing
A Sweet Little NicknamedeluluTeasing
Hats Offno capEveryday
Granny and the MoggymogCompliment
The New DriverL / WEveryday
Garden Dutiestouch grassInsult
An Urgent Appointmentbrain rotInternet
The Law of the HouseloreInternet
The AccountantFanum taxEveryday
Emergency at the ShopgaggedCompliment
Giving What?it’s givingCompliment
What Time Is It?clock itReaction
The Maths Lesson6-7Nonsense
Ski SeasonskibidiNonsense
The Sum of EverythingsigmaInternet · worth a chat
My Little ClankerclankerInsult · for robots only
Is the Cat Ill?mewingInternet
Who Let the Dog In?yappingEveryday
The Undercover MumsusProbably dead
The Scrunchie CollectioncheugyProbably dead

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Inside That Came Out Wrong, Teen Slang Edition: Word 2, “chopped”: the scene on the left, how teens use it and the verdict on the right. — Word 2, “chopped”: the scene on the left, how teens use it and the verdict on the right.

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Word 1 of 30, exactly as it appears in the book.

Word 01 · Global word · same everywhere

Minus a Thousand Aura

A dad in front of a football goal opens his arms with his eyes closed; two boys stare at him.

Saturday morning, under-14s football. All week, Mark has heard his son talk about “aura”. He assumes it’s the energy thing from his yoga class. So before kick-off, he walks to the touchline in his cycling shorts, closes his eyes and opens his arms to the team.

The line

“Feel my aura, boys! I’m sending you all my aura!”

What he meantI’m sending you good energy for the match.

What they heardAura is your cool factor. A dad in cycling shorts “sending” his: minus a thousand, for him and for his son.

Heard in

USA & UK+1000 aura. He scored without even looking.

FranceSame word. A show-off is “aura farming”.

SpainSame word. Running joke: the opposite of aura is “Laura”.

ItalySame word. You lose aura points when you trip in public.

Can parents say it?Only about yourself, after a disaster. “I just lost a thousand aura” after dropping the lasagne: accepted. Sending your aura to the team: minus ten thousand. Forever.