7 Gen Alpha Slang Terms to Know Right Now, According to My Kids

As the mother of a nine and (almost) 12-year-old, the Gen Alpha lingo in my household is “low-key” off-the-charts. Every day, I find myself attempting to translate the dialogue, googling number combinations, and wracking my brain to determine what-the-actual-heck they are talking about. Sometimes, I don’t think they even know. Well, I did the research so you don’t have to. Here are the 7 “Gen Alpha” slang terms to know right now, especially if you plan on impressing anyone younger.

Anytime the number six comes up in conversation, my kids immediately say “6-7” and start giggling. One of my daughter’s friends even has a water bottle emblazoned with the numbers. Just why? “I don’t really know what it means,” my daughter tells me when I ask. “It came from a song.” The song is “Doot Doot (6 7)” by Skrilla, featuring the recurring lyric, “6-7.” According to her, whenever her teacher means 67 or 6 or 7, the kids respond “6-7!”

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Mid is relatively easy to translate. “In the middle of bad and good,” my daughter says. My son uses the word in a sentence: “My Chipotle burrito is so mid.”

You might say, “I’m going to have a low-key night,” but your kids aren’t going to know what you are talking about. “It’s the same thing as ‘kinda’,” she says. You say like ‘I low-key don’t like this food.'” I asked my son to use it. “Low-key bussing,” he says. Wait, what does bussing mean? “Bussing means good,” he says. Therefore, low-key bussing means that something doesn’t taste good.

Cap is pretty straightforward. “Stop the cap, stop the lying basically,” my daughter says. I ask her to elaborate. “I don’t know, it just means that.

I had high hopes for Chicken Jockey. “It’s from the Minecraft Movie. It doesn’t mean anything,” my daughter says. “It’s just a meme. Everyone goes crazy when someone says it. But that was like a year ago, no one says it anymore,” my son adds.

Brainrot encompasses a variety of terms like “tung tung tung sahour,” “tralalao tralala,” and “skibiti toilet,” words I made him type because I haven’t a clue on how to spell them. What do those mean? “Italian brainrot,” he says. “If you say them a lot people will call you the brainrot kid.” My daughter’s response as to what they mean? “I don’t know, it’s just really brainrotty.”

The term “unc” has nothing to do with an uncle. “Unc is old,” my daughter says, but my son adds: “really old.” You “reach unc status,” if you “turn 20 or something,” he adds. So if someone says, “Oh my gosh, you are an unc,” that’s not a compliment.