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Is "Bitchin'!" still in the current lexicon?

Jackie.Hikaru said:
I guess it probably depends on the region? But I don't think it's used very commonly by gen zers except ironically or whimsically.

Equivalent to "that's bitchin" would probably be
"That's lit", "that's fire" or "that slaps". "dope" is also still in common usage.
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According to my 20 year old future F1 car designer son, "On fleek" is "bitchin."
 
MrPixel said:
I need to poll the AH jury to see if I have this one or not.

I'm writing dialog among relatively rural-ish 20-something males, and have a scene where "Bitchin'!" seems appropriate. But that's my 1960's familiarity, when it came into common use and had a bit of shock value. I think it has sort of hung on with hot-rod enthusiasts and performance car nuts in general. I checked for it on urbandictionary.com, and it's definitely there with multiple entries, but most of those posts seem to be several years old.

The story is present day, so I have to wonder - is "Bitchin'!" relatively timeless? I have observed that each generation cohort has their own exclamatory word or phrase - who among us remembers "groovy"? - but most of those almost immediately date the context.
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20 something in college here: nobody says bitchin.

Assuming "bitchin" is synonymous with "cool" you might be looking for "bussin"

"That's one bussin ass noun"

"That's bussin"

On the younger end of the 20 something scale the word "sigma" is used very similarly.

"That's so sigma"

"What a sigma noun"

Though for sigma I think it's important to note: the word originates in the manosphere and anyone who uses it as a synonym for cool is doing so in a sort of playful nonserious disregard of its original meaning as a way to make fun of the misogynistic alpha male podcaster bros who coined the term. It's hard to explain. Sigma is used to describe things that are genuinely cool, but the fact that it's being used by people who think women should vote is meant to ruin the term for the manosphere dudebros.
 
AWhoopsieDaisy said:
20 something in college here: nobody says bitchin.
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Thank you for verifying my thinking. I used "bitchin'" one time in dialog as described previously, but the speaker was called-out for being "a dork".

Everything else you mention is absolutely the type of cohort-specific language I was trying to avoid. My observation is that it turns over every 4-5 years, and probably even faster with social media driving extremely-temporary trends. What's "hot" today is tomorrow's "not".

I strongly suspect that "sigma" was a flippant derivation from its business use as an indicator of product or process quality. I'd understand it right away, but it really comes-off as geeky. It won't be around long.
 
Bamagan said:
As a secondary answer to 'is it still in the lexicon?': if you try typing it in your phone, it's almost certain to 'correct' it to 'bitcoin'.
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omfg that happened to me once and I sent it without fixing it

(clearly i'm a dude who still says bitchin')

AWhoopsieDaisy said:
Assuming "bitchin" is synonymous with "cool"
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It's totally not, it's more like "awesome" or "radical" or "so gnarly it's superlatively good"
 
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