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Answer: He thought it was "off the chain" (good)

Ill before 2000: Sick, under the weather, down with that

Ill after 2000: Good, awesome, sweet, sick, "the bomb diggity"

When I was younger, saying "ill" meant I was sick. In the 2000s, ill still meant sick, but sick happened to mean good. If something is "sick", "ill", or "off the chain", it is a good thing. So if a youngster comes up to you and says your clothes look ill, they are complimenting you; you should say thank you. They'll probably not appreciate you slapping them for calling you "ill".

Answer: He was down with that (he wanted to go)

Fo shizzle before 2000: Well, we didn't say that when I was a kid!

Fo shizzle after 2000: For sure, okay, definitely, I understand.

I grew up just fine without adding "izzle" to the end of so many words. Today, though, it seems that is a wildly popular thing to do. There is even a song ("1, 2, Step") that starts out "This is a jazzy fizzle productizzle." Couldn't they have just said it was a jazzy production? I mean, really?

When we left the theater, my friend looked at me and said that was fat. I looked at him and told him that was very rude; I thought the actress was pretty. He looked at me questioningly, then told me he meant phat with a "ph", which meant he liked the movie.

Answer: His lady (girlfriend)

Shorty before 2000: Small fry, pipsqueak, generally short person

Shorty after 2000: Girlfriend, shawty, sometimes even meaning boyfriend

I recall being called "shorty" many times in my younger days in elementary school. I was a bit vertically challenged at the time, thus I was called "shorty". I also used to call my sister shorty, because, well, that's just something older siblings seem to do. Nowadays, everyone seems to use the word "shorty", often pronounced and spelled as "shawty" to describe their boyfriend or girlfriend. Things have changed.

Interestingly, though, "shorty" can be used much differently in Australia, where it refers to someone very tall. Alternately, someone very short may be called "stretch".

Answer: He wanted to hang out at his house

Chill before 2000: Make something cold, freeze it, possibly even a shiver up your spine, relax (yes, it was slang before 2000, as well)

Chill after 2000: Hang out, relax, "chillax"

It turns out that my friend never wanted to go outside. It was far too cold and he couldn't play any sports, so he was bored. He texted me to ask me to come to his house so we could "chill", which, apparently, means "hang out".

Answer: He thought she was attractive

Fly before 2000: What a bird or a plane or Superman does, or an annoying insect, also slang for cool (It was used in "In Living Color" in the 90s [thanks ferfer72])

Fly after 2000: Attractive, pretty, cool

I remember saying "good-looking" or "hot" when someone was pretty. But my friend, he said she was "fly". It seems that the English language has been morphed into a completely new language, which I will call "teenspeak".

Answer: He left; he had to get home

Gotta bounce before 2000: What one says when they have a sudden urge to hop up and down

Gotta bounce after 2000: Gotta go, see ya later, I can't be here right now

When my friend told me he had to "bounce", I thought he was going to start doing jumping jacks or something. Instead, after yelling "Gotta bounce" he ended with "TTYL" and he was gone. I had no idea what had just happened until I asked someone what it meant, and they told me he said he had to go, talk to you later.

Answer: He was telling them that I had never played the game before

Noob before 2000: This term was never used before, we called them "newcomers"

Noob after 2000: Newbie, inexperienced

Apparently, when my friend told everyone that I was a noob, he was simply alerting them that I was a "newbie", a newcomer, that I had not played the game before. It turns out, being tagged as a noob isn't so bad; I got the hang of the game right away and was doing great, and they were going easy on me at first, so I won a lot.

Answer: How are you, friends?

Peeps before 2000: Making a sound, a delicious marshmallow candy, also a catchphrase of Stavros on "Harry Enfield and Chums" (thanks highfells!)

Peeps after 2000: Friend, pals, companions; short for people

It turns out that "wuttup" is a word that is similar to "wuzzup", or "wazzup". That word is used as a "mash-up" of the term "what's up". If he had only asked that, I would have told him it was the ceiling. But really, "what's up" is a phrase that asks, "how are you?" or, 'what's are you doing?" Shades of Bugs Bunny!

Answer: Money

Bacon before 2000: A fatty, delicious pork product often eaten with eggs

Bacon after 2000: Moolah, simoleons, dead presidents, frogskins, cash, dough, greenbacks, money

My friend went through dozens of terms for money before I finally understood what he wanted. He called it "bread", "cabbage", "lettuce", "bacon", "beans", and "chips". I thought he was really hungry, but it turned out that he was a few dollars short of a new skateboard and needed to "hit me up for some cash" (ask me for money).

Answer: My clothes

Skin before 2000: Flesh, or a rug made from a bear

Skin after 2000: Still means flesh, but also means clothes, rags, threads

I had no idea that clothes these days were called "skins". I had heard of "rags" and "threads", but calling my clothing "skins" was all new to me. Further, I did not quite know what he meant by "dig". When I asked, he told me that "dig" meant "like". So if someone "digs your skins", they aren't burrowing into your flesh; they like your clothes.