White People Slang Words RANKED... 

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'No more Mr nice guy' is the equivalent to "You don't wanna see my dark side 💀"

Alternate title: Drakes Dictionary

- “See you later, alligator” - “In a while, crocodile”

The fact you unironicaly used some unlisted white people slang in this video was quite humorous

“I don’t give a rat’s ass” goes crazy. Like damn you don’t give a SINGLE fuck 😭

"lets blow this popsicle stand" is solid when used ironically. I give it a legitimate 7/10 for ironic usage

"Hold your horses" means "be stable" because stables hold horses.

“be there, or be square” is lowkey fire. they’re a square because they dont get around. pretty much calling them a lame when you call. them a square 😭😭

The reason why 'let me be frank' is used is because the word frank means more than just honest, it also means direct. Kind of like 'Imma be straight with you'. I agree though, I wouldn't call it slang because all of the words are being used properly in their expected contexts.

"Pow right in the kisser!" ahh video💀

"No more Mr nice guy" has the same energy as "I have god AND anime on my side! 🤓👆"

As a black man I say a lot of this tbh If your square that means to not be around…it’s a pun because the opposite of round is square

I always thought that “the gig is up” was “the jig is up” So yea, random fact about me.

For the play it by ear I think it’s a musician phrase when you just hear the song and try to replicate it even if you don’t know how it really goes

You’d be surprised how much more powerful some of these with the appropriately placed word enhancer: ‘hold your fuckin horses’ or ‘you’re on fuckin thin ice, pal’

as a white person, I feel honored to have the duck himself talk about white people slang

"You're on thin ice pal" is automatically f tier because of the word "pal"

I like”play it by ear” because it can be used literally for music. Playing by ear means you learn the song by just listening to it, not looking up a cover or tutorial

“the beast is coming inside me” - the duck 2024

"stop pushing my buttons pal"

As a Latino that grew up in the US I can confirm I’ve heard these a lot especially at school

Get a Load of This Guy is the white folks equivalent of WHOSE MAN'S IS THIS??? and I absolutely love it. I'm black but I'm Midwestern and much of my life was spent in the suburbs with non racist hillbillies so I've heard all of these and use some of them all the time, especially in my writing. It is what it is. It could be worse.

this is literally moist cr1tikals vocabulary

My friends and I literally say "No more Mr. Nice guy" and laugh because absolutely NO ONE is taking that seriously.

"News Flash Pal" is the black version of "you got me f****d up" 😂

Some of these slang words should have it’s existence revoked

I thought of a few more… because idioms are mostly said by white people, so most idioms go into this “white people slang” But here are some common ones I either say/ hear - “Walk a mile in my shoes” (cringe-mid) - “Just imagine/ imagine/ pretend (blank) (this one can be good) - get (tf) off your high horse (decent) - don’t beat a dead horse (cringe) - cat got your tongue? (This one is a banger to really embarrass them) - a taste of your own medicine (cringe, but good when it’s true and you really don’t like them and what they’ve done) - the boy who cried wolf/ cry wolf (dad phrase) - easier said that done (simple, effective, over said, but works) - by the skin of your teeth (dad phrase) - needle in a haystack (decent) - fish out of water (mid at best) - something about being up or down wind or up or down stream in relation to something but used as an idiom (ex, up a creek without a paddle) There’s many more that are actual BANGERS, but you probably need to find a hillbilly and/or southerner for them, those are pretty solid and funny if you hear them, typically bc they are so unique. It would give off vibes similar to “running around like a chicken with it head cut off” Edit: found one: “They are so cheap they wouldn’t give a nickel to see Jesus riding a bicycle." And “I'll knock you into the middle of next week looking both ways for Sunday!"

Hi, born and raised Alabama resident here. "Oughta" came from a mashup of "ought to" which kinda means, "should," I guess. "I oughta go to the store" or, in the case of the slang, "I oughta kick yer ass!" It was spelled, "outta" in the video, which means "out of," as in, "I oughta get outta here with my nitpicky corrections, sorry." 😅

The amount of idioms in this video and how you reacted to them reminded me of the playgroup for autistic kids where we learned a new idiom each week.

i've heard "the jig is up, pal" more than "the gig is up" personally

“Let’s blow this popsicle stand”, to a lesser extent “No more Mr. Nice Guy”, “the jig is up pal”, and the words pal and buddy and bucko are all commonly associated with stereotypical prohibition gangsters and 1920s Italian monsters.

Thin ice is an good song from an amazing album by a godtier band.

8:00 my mum has a little fancy plate thing with marbles on it, and I remember she said this once, I was so tempted to say “No you haven’t they’re right here.”

"square" is an archaic way of saying someone or something is posh or proper or stuck up. Like a snobby rich person or something like that or a teacher's pet. So "be square" is basically calling someone a goodie two shoes.

Not so important information but, at 2:29 they say “hold your horses” so that you can be “stable” and a stable is (I think) another term for identifying a horse

If someone says “see ya later alligator” you say “after a while crocodile”

"Play it by ear" comes from music where you literally learn a song just from listening to it. I dont blame u for not knowing that bc i just connected the dots now

Can't BELIEVE you just dissed on "Let's blow this Popsicle stand". That shit is A tier at least and this is a FACT and not "My Opinion"

0:45 I can't, the dinkleberg killed me🤣

😂horse girl here. "Hold your horses" comes form the fact that once you get your horse to, you know, move, theh don't stop very abruptly. Sometimes with wagons horses would also start moving forward before the 'driver' was even fully holding the reigns too. Ig the modern equivalent would be 'quit wasting your gas buddy' for people who start their cars before getting in and driving.

your soft like drake got a whole new meaning

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"listen here buddy, youre on thin ice pal" go crazy put together tho

Most of those weren't slang. They're idioms.

Any white person being told "You and what army" is just gonna pull out packgod audio

"you're on thin ice" is s tier in my opinion, its just great.

I think the fact that "pal" can come across as legitimately threatening when spoken by a midwesterner in the right context is truly a piece of information about linguistics

being square is referring to the body language a person makes when they are trying to intimidate someone or fight someone if someone says be there or be square they are saying be there or else basically lol

Great video bruv as always.

Wowzers! You really Rocked my socks with this one!

Keep it going big bro

In an alternate universe: you're not on thin ice honestly

So the play it by ear thing refers to learning to play a song by ear, so just plucking at the until you find the right notes rather than using sheet music or tablature. It just means you'll figure it out as you go along rather than follow a set plan of action.

Play it by ear is mostly just used in any band. You know how people read music, sometimes musicians just guess the notes that's where "Play it by Ear"

The duck videos are fire🔥🔥🔥

If I were to take a wild guess, 'hold your horses' probably came from when people still rode horses as their primary transport. 'holding', would mean to stop or control them. It's a way of telling people to wait and physically stop going any further.

"Play it by ear" comes from the practice in music of playing a song without sheet music. You have to improvise and adjust the notes that are played based on how they sound, rather than follow along instructions or memory. It's also necessary for the process of composing music, as you're inventing the song in the moment. It does indeed refer to improvising or inventing a process where a concrete plan is absent or impractical.

Playing it by ear comes (IIRC) from musicians performing something they've heard before but haven't actually memorised to play formally, it's kind of like "winging it" like you said, because you know what it's meant to be like but don't know specifics

7:05 damn I always thought it was play it by YEAR

9:10 "square" can also mean "fast" if i recall so it's just "be there now or be there fast/quickly"

lmao im 27 and the way alot of these make sense to you is really funny to me. my family is pretty old fashioned and from the north and south so i have heard most if not all of these through out my life

Using these at school after spring break 💯

Another banger

1:34 I've never heard this in my life anywhere besides Shrek

I like ur new editing

I would use a lot of these ironically. Especially the ones in D and F Tier. I like using the phrases "What in Tarnation" and "Oh dear."

4:36 Em, thats rich coming from you

0:25 balarke? the swag lord?

7:12 I just thought about the song from Shakira "we can always play by ear" in "whenever wherever" . Didnt know what it means

I like to use these words ironically in many situations, cause they do work well.

You're walking on thin ice with this one, bucko!!

8:58 the whole joke of this is that its a pun. Because if you're square, you're not a-round(like a circle) I know, it's weird. I don't like it either, but that's what it means.

7:24 I'm pretty sure that play it by ear came from musicians, basically to learn or play something by hearing the song rather than to read sheet music.

Let’s cut to the chase gets my approval big time for a slick phrase and play it by ear

7:34 um ackshually ☝️🤓 it came from the term for when a musician plays a song just by hearing it and not with sheet music

"Newsflash buddy" when u hear this u know it's time to quit ur gonna lose the argument 🏳️🏳️🏳️

Dude I love using let’s blow this popsicles stand. It’s just so corny! 🤣

7:31 refers to how you play a song on an instrument through listening and feeling out the sound

That’s rich coming from you

just so you know frank is a word kinda archaic now but it was probably used before honest was made 😂

'Pal' is one I really find hilarious. It's said often by Kevins (Male Karens) with the hands on hip stance (Or arms crossed) and they are waving their fist. You know they are so serious.

Never heard the popsicle stand one but my grandma would say "lets blow this joint" it has the same meaning but also sounds like someone's going to smoke something or maybe your about to walk away from an explosion.

5:47 where is that laugh track from? 😂😂

"there's a LOT more where that came from!" is a personal fave. Shoutout Disney channel for popularizing this one.

I also always thought "the gig is up" was "the jig is up" an it made sense cause old heads used to call dancing doing a "jig" or gettin "jiggy" so i always assumed "the jig is up" meant the lil dance you were doing around law enforcement or whoever ur tryna not get caught by, the dance as in youre doing your best to elude them.

5:37 reminds me how I love to say “settle down there, buster-brown”

0:07 where I’m from speaking English is bad like you speak English you might get attacked depending on where you are in the city so I’ve heard like none of them

“Oughta boy”

"Play it by ear" is a reference to music, where the alternative would be to play it by sheet music.

hold your horses just means to be stable bc horses are held in stables

thats rich coming from you (please laugh i've never been funny in my life ;-;)

“Youre on thin ice pal” is literally the same as someone saying “your in boiling water pal” 😂

Don’t forget when the parents are pissed they also say “if you think (xy reason) is the right thing, you got another thing coming pal”

Hold your horses came from when horses were the main mode of transportation. When you slow up a horse it’s called holding it so when someone says hold your horses they’re basically using the old version of slow your roll since we have wheels and cars now.

2:50 I don’t think drake is that soft if you know what I mean😏

8:11 brawl stars frank lmao

nah bro wilin on "hold you horses" thats S tier forsure

I always figured “play it by ear” meaning improvise/fly by the seat of your pants because when you play by ear you’re not looking at charts or sheet music. Going with the flow/less structure 🤷🏿‍♂️