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Rain check is also when a store runs out of a product that is on sale and they give you a rain check which is a piece of paper that allows you to get that item at a later time even when it is no longer on sale at the sale price.
Being British: Joel & Lia I love your videos so much! If you ever feel like coming to Geneva New York I'll give you the hometown tour and show you the best spots in my tiny town
Being British: Joel & Lia I love you guys !!! I live in Florida Joel ☀️... also bagsy is not a word Americans use ... and I’ve never heard anyone use zonked either lol
I've also seen it in stores, when they run out of a sales item. The store would issue a "raincheck", and you could come back at a later time to purchase the item at the sales price. Of course, I haven't seen these since the 1980's, so nowadays if they run out, too bad!
That makes sense, but it's become much more common to mean what Michelle M said, a document that allows you to buy something at the sale price after the sale is over.
@@kilroy2517 I think the stores "raincheck" comes from baseball, and the stores adopted it. Also, the appropriate usage is "Can I take a raincheck" not "Can we raincheck on tonight." And it's NOT to wait for a rainy day - it's to cancel due to rain. :)
So raincheck started in late 1800's-early 1900's. If you attended an outdoor professional sporting event like baseball, and the game was cancelled due to rain you were given a raincheck ticket to come back to another game. It was also used for sale items in stores. For example if a store ran out of the sale item you were given a rain check to buy that item at the sale price it is back in stock. Now most sale ads say limited time... It also means" not now, maybe later."..... sorry for the long explanation
Raincheck: Certain events when caceled due to rain would issue a "raincheck" to be used in the future when the event would then be done after the rain had stopped. This is an option to use instead of issuing refunds. The term now refers to any reason for cancellation and implies that the person is still interested(in the future) but not at the present moment.
We also use it in retail, if we are sold out of a sale item we write the customer a raincheck to get the item at the sale price another day when it's back in stock.
You are correct - the origin of this term dates back to 1800s baseball games. If a game was postponed because of rain, spectators were given a voucher that allowed them to come back and watch the next game.
I once saw a sitcom where a certain family had issues with their maid and wanted to let her go, but didn't want to hurt her feelings any more than necessary. So they said to her, "Betty, you won't have to come tomorrow if it rains. In fact, you won't have to come tomorrow even if it doesn't rain".
thebaron44 yes, very late 1960s and early 1970s. Sort of of the same era as saying one "digs" something. The parlance of hippies and the beatnicks before them.
Shotgun comes from the American“Wild West Days”. When someone traveled a long distance in a horse drawn coach, protection from robbers and hostel American Native Tribes was necessary. The person who sat next to the driver carried a shotgun in case they were attacked. So the guy in that position was referred to as riding shotgun.
Americans don't realize? Lolol more than twice the amount of countries drive on the right than on the left. The only countries than drive on the left are the UK Japan and some of their commonwealth countries other than Canada and maybe malaysia or something. Don't make it out as if we think WE'RE the only ones who drive on the right, the same as not using the metric system.
Agreed, except if used as a Warning!! YOLO, don't take that selfie at the cliff edge...Come to think of it, you may have "selfie" and "impacting" also....assuming you want them, LOL
The term shotgun is a reference to the days of stage coaches. There would be a driver and the one sitting next to the driver would carry a shotgun for protection.
The rules of shotgun are very simple and very clear. The first person to shout “shotgun” when you’re in sight of the care gets the front seat. That’s how the game’s played. There are no exceptions for someone with a concussion.
"Shotgun" comes from the old West when two people would sit on the front of the carriage or wagon. One would drive and the other "rode shotgun" holding a shotgun for protection.
I think it's more from western movies like "Stagecoach". One guy took the reins and the other the shotgun. We drive on the right in America so its the guy in the right hand seat and the guy in the left has the reins.
Hey kids! I'm 50 and I've been saying Lit referring to being drunk since the 90s. I think the yungins 'have changed it a bit. Shotgun comes from the Stagecoach drivers right hand man who sat next to him protecting the coach from bandits or Indian attacks. Love from Phoenix, Arizona
Michelle Thomas Yes! I'm early 50s too, and I remember "lit" being used to mean drunk or high when I was in high school in the 80s. Raincheck is used like, "I can't do that today, I'll take a raincheck." It does imply rescheduling. Great video! So fun!
Angela Witherington I'm enjoying these kids too! They are intelligent, well spoken, funny as all get out, and seem to be a little more open minded than many of the young people their age.
Shotgun... Comes from way back in the old Western days, stagecoaches would get robbed so a man with a shotgun would ride up in front of the stagecoach with the driver to help protect from robbers.
That's still what it means but it's become more generalized because it's thought of as good to be high. So lit eventually began to refer to just something thats good. But I think most people still use it to mean high as well
I’m almost the same age, but forced to interact with youngsters 😉 They’re the ones that made “lit” also mean something amazing, what we would call “really cool.” We’re getting old!
@@lisastiles1408 yes, I’m getting old AND so late. 👈🏼 My daughter told me that I was so late when I discovered the magical Sam Hunt. And obviously, this video is 2 years old...
When I was growing up in the 1970s, a rain check was something you got if you paid for an event or activity that got rained out. Like paying to go to the pool or a carnival, and a thunderstorm crops up and they have to close. They would give you a raincheck and you could get in another day for free (you received a ticket that you could present another day, I suppose a coat check is similar since they give you a ticket that you present to reclaim your coat). From my childhood to now the meaning has evolved to mean to reschedule and I don't know of any businesses that give actual rain checks anymore. Go figure. LOL I guess it's a rain check on the rain check. :D
There is a grocery store in Minnesota called Cub Foods that gives out rain checks for items that are out of stock! You can pay for it and get a "rain check" and come back and pick it up when they get their next truck in. No one really uses it but they have the option!
I remember years ago when I was a cashier and had to write a rain checks for customers when the weekly on-sale item was out. It was so they could return after the sale was over but still get the sale price. I wonder if they still do such a thing.
We use rain checks at the the grocery store where I work as well. Usually when we're out of stock and the sale is weekly. You'd be surprised how many people still use them. :)
The term shotgun comes from the old days when people rode in horse-drawn carriages and the passenger up front/top would have a literal shotgun for protection. So, in modern times, the shotgun spot became the colloquial term for the front passenger seat.
Yeah its always been cringy, douchebags and wannabe rappers were the only ones trying to use it.... lasted maybe 4 months before folks realized it was lame and moved on...lol
I’ve never used “yolo”, ever. Vibe is short for vibration (energy or frequency). Sometimes we say things like “that guy has bad vibes, he’s creeping me out”. Lit has always meant high or drunk with anyone I know here in the US. Thanks for sharing.
I’m American; I have not heard anyone use the word “zonked” in decades, and only then by Brits. “Bailing” comes from fighter pilot slang, who use it to refer to parachuting out of a disabled plane; you “bail out” of a bad situation (although now it just means to leave). “Vibe” is short for “vibration”. If it’s “not my vibe”, it means something’s happening on a “frequency” (i.e., general mood) I don’t like, or respond to. “Raincheck” comes from baseball games, which are cancelled due to rain. Ticket holders are given a “raincheck” for a game on another date - which may or may not fit their schedule (hence the sense of a tentative commitment). “Riding shotgun” comes from stagecoach days, when the person next to the driver had to hold a gun to guard against robbers.
Virginia In which New England state are you talking about ? I've lived in N.E. all my life (born in Mass. and in NH for 65 yrs.) and I've never heard of that word or have any clue what it means ?
I was born in Brockton moved to Conn., then to NH when I was 3. So basically learned to talk in NH. I've never heard the word "hozie". What does it mean, exactly ? Same as "dibs" ?
It comes from a baseball game when it got rained out and the game was canceled. They wouldn't give you a refund, but they would let you go to the make up game on a different day where you could use the same ticket.
@@sassyfras4085 yup. Shotgun was a job, Not a seat really. It's hard to hit a moving target when your driving away from bandits. And a shotgun is more forgiving to a miss than a rifle. The drivers job was to get the wagon or stagecoach away as fast as possible. "Shotgun" had the job of shooting at bandits so they could get away.
But, in south, there are long, narrow homes called "shotgun houses" - because you could shoot right down the middle of it and not hit the sides. It's used a LOT.
You don't "rain check on" something, you "take a rain check on" it. It basically just means "let's postpone this for later". In the US, a rain check is what you get from a store if a sale item is out of stock. It's a voucher that lets you get the sale price even after the sale ends, once the product comes back in stock. I think the name started from outdoor events, where if it rained, the event had to be canceled; you'd get a rain check so that whenever the postponed event happened, you could get in without paying for admission a second time.
Patricia Gordon that’s funny...I’ve lived in New England for 40 years and I’ve never heard that word so I’m assuming it’s regional. We would typically use “shotgun” or “dibs”. Where in New England are you from?
Patricia Gordon I grew up in Southern NH (born 1980) and I’ve never heard that word before. I asked my bf who was born in 1969 and grew up around Worcester and he never heard it either so maybe it’s a NH seacoast word. How interesting!
@@alliehurd9385 I googled to claim something first, to hosey something. Says possible origin from french word choisis. Which makes sense as my mother and grandmother spoke french. Alot of people came to NH from Quebec to work the mills
Carlos Konstanski actually this summer it like never rained in the north of England our rivers were dried up it was really bad we had to conserve water
If you buy a ticket for a baseball game and it gets rained out you will be given a "raincheck" which is a ticket to be used at a later date. Raincheck is also used for sales at clothing or variety stores if the store is out of a sale item you can ask, "do I get a raincheck for this?", meaning "Will I still get the sale price when you have it in stock?".
Ok. Here's my take. Lit DOES usually mean drunk or high. Umm "Bail" comes from a pilot bailing out of a warplane. Rain check is from Baseball (i think) Baseball games sometimes get "rained out" and you get a "rain check" for the make up game. Shotgun actually goes all the way back to the 1800s. On a coach, or wagon (especially if it was carrying valuables) you had a driver, and then sitting next to him was a guy with a shotgun to defend the coach if needed. Everything else is spot on! Well done!
Yep, I was looking for a comment about "bail." I've always pictured a skydiver bailing out of an airplane but a pilot ejecting and bailing out sounds right too.
No... Not all if these. Bail is used in alot of hip hop music and that use there carried over into popular culture as in 'bailing' out of a situation of some sort
At first blush, 'riding shotgun' seems to be from the old West, but it almost certainly isn't. It's actually seen in RE-CREATIONS of the Old West in shows and movies well into the 20th century. First reference appears to be 1919 for a street celebration in Ogden Utah; later references come from film.' Did they have guys riding shotgun on real stagecoaches? They sure did. But apparently without the phrase being used or perhaps noticed.
Cause you are too young. back in the late 60s a new snack food hit the market called SCREAMING YELLOW ZONKERS. short lived but a huge hit. the snack was ok but the box had hilarious sayings plastered all over it. If you eat a zonker, you will get zonked.
Rain check actually comes from an old baseball term. If it rained and the game was canceled you would get a rain check which would guarantee you could see another game at a later date.
And if you go to the store but the product you want is out of stock, some stores give you a raincheck to buy the product when it comes back in stock ,maybe at a sale price.
Pretty sure vibe is short for vibrations. Good vibes is good vibrations, bad vibe is bad vibrations... like how hippies interpret your overall energy as a person.
Absolutely right. In Star Wars they could have said, "I'm getting really bad vibes about this." to say the same thing as, "I have a bad feeling about this."
@Theresa Hamblin Exactly my thoughts. I don't think the Beach Boys invented the phrase but more that they popularized it. "Good Vibrations" vs bad vibrations eventually shortened to good vibes, etc. It was the Beach Boys who made it into the common language.
Shotgun referred back to days of stagecoaches, there was a person with a shotgun to protect the coach and riders from highway robbers, who sat beside the driver.
"Lit" and "weak" have a totally different meaning with the younger generation...back in the 90's "weak" was slang for "lame" or "pathetic" etc. "Lit" was slang for "high" or "drunk".
Was searching for this comment because I thought I was crazy. In my party years, me and my friends would be drinking/smoking out and someone would say " man I feel like getting lit". So we'd make a call and get some cocaine. So thanks for the validation
Chris Lain I agree. I've heard lit means high or drunk, but in my experience it also means so completely angry/P.O'd. Like they said "Sparks flying" but not in a good way, by any means.
@@lilbigisis3807 could mean in baseball a pitcher is being hit about / In boxing when a boxer is getting the worst of it in a punch exchange ........he's being lit up
Riding shotgun comes from way back in the 1800s when the person who wasn't driving the horses for the wagon, stagecoach, etc. held the shotgun to protect against robbers in the wild west. Also a common practice in Australia at the same time.
Still applies to modern prison buses in the US, the front seats behind the driver is blocked off from the rest of the bus and the person sitting there is a guard with a shotgun.
I like to listen to you guys “CHOPPIN IT UP” but sometimes Joel can be so “EXTRA” and Lia is more “ORGANIC” but then again Lia, your “BAE” is like telling his “”REAL REAL” so I can’t “THROW SHADE” on him for “KEEPING IT 100”. Y’all “GUCCI” 👍🏾. But for real, I love you guys 😄
You can also bail out of a boat. Kind of a double meaning because a person can bail out but also, if your boat is taking on water, you use a bucket and bail water out .
Shotgun refers to traversing the "wild west" on/in a carriage in the 1800s. To defend against wild animals, natives, and robbers along common trails, an armed man would sit to the right of the man steering the horses. Usually, the weapon of choice was a shotgun. Hence the term "riding shotgun", or just "shotgun".
Raincheck is also used for when a product is on sale and the store runs out you can ask for a raincheck and then when it's restocked you get the sale price with your raincheck. Originally it was from outdoor events that were rained out so you could come back and use your raincheck .
Molly Yeah, even in relatively rainy areas, we have more sunshine than rain. So we would have outdoor sales, sidewalk sales, and parking lot promotions. Most of the time, no problem at all. But as you said, if you got flooded out you still had to sell the merchandise at the price you advertised. I remember my grandmother getting pieces of paper from stores with promissory notes on them. As soon as she went back to the store, out came the notes. Clerks in the back, looking for her stuff, and there would be 20 more ladies with their rainchecks waiting in line.
Rain check is an American term that started years ago when baseball first started in the late 1800s. If the game rained out, you were given a 'rain check/voucher' to attend the rescheduled match.
"Shotgun" comes from the stagecoach security who would ride next to the driver with a firearm.. usually a shotgun. They didn't call it that back then, and the term was coined in Hollywood
Shotgun, refers to riding in the shotgun seat, next to the driver. And the term was used as early as prohibition. Moonshiners and smugglers were criminals, couldn't call the cops if another gang robbed them, so they went back to the ways of the old west (which wasn't that old back then). I can't say for sure if the term was used in the age of the stagecoach, but it didn't originate in Hollywood. It predates talkies, motion pictures with the spoken word.
BeckiWitte it's actually short for shotgun messenger or, more correctly, express messenger who were hired by the stagecoach companies in the lawless west. The term was first used in a book in 1905. I meant Hollywood as a colloquialism.
The expression of "Riding Shotgun" came from the Wild West in America. The carriage guys that drove would have a guy next to them with a shotgun. Hence riding shotgun.
While i was in the Miltary Humvees have horrible side mirrors so shootgun was the person who shot out the window and told thw driver if a car was coming
Here's your American old-fart subscriber in Texas with an explanation (and I'm old enough to literally have used this in its literal sense over the years) for "rain check". There are two common origins, as far as I know. The first has to do with the American sport of baseball, before the era where many (Major League) fields are now in indoor stadiums. If you bought tickets back in the "old days" to a baseball game, and the game was rained out, you could ask for a "rain check" and use them at a future event. This was sometimes limited to the makeup game for the particular team that happened to be in town, or more often available as general admission (the "cheap seats") for any future game that was not sold out. Sold out is pretty rare for non-pennant-important baseball games, even these days. But I only rarely go to a live game any more, and I don't know if this is still a common current policy, at least at the MLB level. The second common use was if a merchant offered a product on sale at a price you just couldn't pass up. You would show up, check book in hand (yeah, I am THAT old! lol) and much to your chagrin find that the item was out of stock. You could ask for a rain check, and buy it later when it was available but no longer on sale at the "rain check price", that is, the reduced sale price. The merchant would sell you the item at the lower price from the rain check. Even if there was a person immediately in line behind you buying the item at a higher price, it was understood that they would pay the prevailing price, because they did not have the rain check. And I have never seen an argument arising from a delta in pricing when a rain check was involved, that is, where customer number two believes that he/she must be given the same discount as the bearer of the rain check. It was understood that the rain check was a privilege born of a particular sale. This rain check model was, to my knowledge anyway, only used in traditional brick and mortar stores, I have never seen it online, and even in B&M, I think this model is not really used any more. When stuff goes on "sale", there are usually some weasel words about "limited to stock on hand", or "valid only through [given date]". Hey, just realized that "weasel words" might be another American idiom that could catch on in Britain! (Or could have been coined there, for all I know! Great expression, though.)
Rain checks were also used at car washes. If you get your car washed then it rains the next day, you could get your car re-washed for free. Just show the receipt as proof. I'm another old American, btw.
Shakespeare used the word "nap" in Richard III. "Good lords, conduct him to his regiment: I'll strive, with troubled thoughts, to take a nap, Lest leaden slumber peise me down to-morrow, When I should mount with wings of victory:" Speaking of mic drops.
Actually, us old folks (I'm 63) used "lit" back in the day to mean drunk. Also I've always taken "raincheck" to mean an even that was cancelled and will be rescheduled due to weather.
Years ago, Hugh Laurie was on the Ellen Degeneres Show, and they played a game of American Slang vs British Slang (seeing if each could guess what the other's slang meant). Hugh was incredibly enamored by the word "badonkadonk" (meaning "a shapely bum"), so much that he just sat there muttering, "That's a *fantastic* word!" Too bad it's already out of style XD
Shotgun originated from when American Settlers heading West would have someone with a shotgun ride in front of the wagon along with the person guiding the horse to keep a look out. At least that's what I've heard.
American grew up in the 80s;. Lit comes from being "on fire" which used to be slang for 'hot' or 'cool' or 'in the zone' (all versions of the same state of good times, high, drunk, partying hard); that was now abbreviated into "lit" as in lit on fire. This party is "on fire", or shes "on fire" morphed into being "lit" can be used all kinds of ways, basically a good time for however that person has a "good time". Zonked isnt really used much anymore, you'll sound a little silly using that one. "Bail" is actually from an older connotation, not jail bail. It's derived from WW2 fighters "bailing out" of an airplane when its shot and going down. They "bailed-out" or jumped out of the plane with a parachute for safety. In short terms "get out as fast as you can". so when we "bailed", means we left quickly or wasnt even there when you expected. Here's a newer one for you that's taken over from bailed, it's now "bounced". Bail is only slightly used within the surfer-type culture Now its like this: "Sorry I gotta bounce and pick up my girlfriend." "Hey where were you? You took too long, I bounced." New one for you Brits: Chill or chilled you can use "chillax" too, (chill-relax) "whatd you do all day? Just chillaxed by the pool." Calm down, chillax!
Congratulations on 100k subs, guys! The way I've heard vibe used, is it's what you get from other people. As in, "I'm getting a good/bad vibe from him". You could also say vibes. It basically means you can't put pinpoint an exact reason why you either or like or don't like someone, you just feel the way you feel.
Lit could mean drunk or high as in I was so lit last night. Or when I saw him/her last night he/she was lit AF Or could also mean awesome or amazing as in the party was lit or that concert was lit.
Riding shotgun comes from our pioneer days when they travelled by stagecoach. An armed guard used to sit next to the driver; a shotgun was the preferred weapon for the job. So the person sitting right of the driver is in the shotgun position.
Correct but in the context of usage the video is referring to, i.e. someone choosing not to attend an event, the airplane analogy is most suited. Other choices such as bail after an arrest or bailing out a sinking boat are also valid in different circumstances.
The first time I heard "zonked" was a TV commentator in the early 1970's. He was referring to Larry Csonka with the Miami Dolphins, devastating hit on a linemen...
It was used a few times in the 1980s I think, but hardly anyone says it anymore. It sounds like a term from a Batman comic book. Most people now say "crashed" or "blinkered" or "wasted" or something along those lines.
This term comes from baseball, where in the 1880s it became the practice to offer paying spectators a rain check entitling them to future admission for a game that was postponed or ended early owing to bad weather.
Bail out comes from jumping out of an airplane. It came back into fashion when skateboarding was popular, when you intentionally abandon a trick/stunt rather than face plant. Skaters shortened it to "bail."
FYI, vibe comes from vibration. As in, something really resonates with your spirit (or just doesn’t). A bit of hippie-speak that’s entered the mainstream.
Clearly Vibe / Vibration can be used interchangeably as one is just an abbreviation of the other. I was simply commenting on my take being more something I gather from the outside (a space or location), whereas the original meaning is more broad and central to self.
Joel and Lia, another entertaining video...love the work you do. It’s so funny how we speak the same language but we don’t always share the same slang. I would have to agree with you, though, that some expressions do get shared across the pond (back and forth) most likely due to the state/speed of communication/technology...are American English and British English converging? Probably not, but you two do a great job exploring the language. Keep it up! Love your channel!
I always thought raincheck came from, when you go to the amusement parks or the zoo, something outdoors and it starts to rain they would give you a voucher to come back another day. So translation for slang is "lets do it another day."
Yes, or if you went to the store to buy a product on sale and they ran out then they would give you a paper called raincheck to come back and get it when more come in but for the sale price.
Funny story: when my son was a toddler, he talked a lot, but was really difficult to understand. I finally realized that it was so hard to understand him because he was speaking in a British accent and using British terms... because he watched so much Peppa Pig. He is 5 now and still uses the word “aeroplane” and calls the back yard “the back garden”.
Zonked has been around for ages. Used in a sentence, I went to check on Bob but he was zonked out on the couch. It's been around since at least the 1970's
It's a thing in the army, when the command yells zonk it means if you run fast enough, no pt in the morning. Getting zonked by first sergeant is the best
Raincheck essentially means reschedule it comes from like something where something was gonna happen but couldn’t happen because it was raining so you would literally get like a check saying you’ll do it at a later day
Rain check: In the old days, when a store was out of a sale item, they used to give you a hand written coupon that guaranteed the price for later. Usually it had no expiration, so you could save it for a rainy day.
Mark Cocanougher O.K. Came from President Martin van Buren (1840). According to Google:He was named Old Kinderhook after his hometown of Kinderhook, New York. His supports shorthanded it to OK. I've also heard that van Buren was a member of the Old Kinderhook Society where the members referred to themselves as "he's OK" (he belongs to old kinderhook society)
Shotgun came from The Times when the bank stage coaches, such as Wells Fargo, carried a shotgun and that man would be seated on the right while the stagecoach driver would tend the hoarses seated on left. Did I make scenes? Lol
“Overland Stages”, or “Overland Stagecoach”, 19th century term. Driver and Security. The 19th century stagecoach builders migrated to automobiles (Fisher for GM; Studebaker).
I'm 35.. And lit used to mean drunk! I'll never forget when I heard one of my 14 year old son's friends say that he was "getting lit for [that night's] basketball game"! I thought for sure that he meant he was going to be drinking beforehand.. & I about lost my mind! Thankfully, I decided to check Urban Dictionary before confronting my son about it. LOL!
I don’t know much about American words but my favorite British word is knackered! I think how the word sounds really conveys the exhaustion. I use it a lot :)
