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  • Hi, I'm Rachel Bloom, and I'll be teaching you some dating sling meet.

  • Cute.

  • So a meet cute is when a couple meet and it's in like a cute way, like, Oh, hold the taxi.

  • That's my taxi.

  • You're contrary in Turkey drop.

  • I would have thought a friend for this one.

  • My makeup artist Austin is young and dating Austin.

  • What's a turkey?

  • Europe?

  • Austin's useless.

  • A turkey drop is when you're like in college and you come back from a Thanksgiving break and you're like, I want to break up.

  • I thought about it a lot over Thanksgiving Red coming.

  • I'm gonna guess this is when you leave little crumbs of caring, and so you keep the person on the hook in a very mean and inconsiderate way.

  • Ghosting is when you disappear on someone in dating or with texting, and you just disappear.

  • You never give them a solid break up.

  • You just go away.

  • You up Well, that really this should be with a just a u U Up is something that someone texts you at like 34 AM, when they just want a booty call.

  • Netflix and Chill, I believe, has two meanings.

  • It's I want to just go in for the night and chill and watch some Netflix.

  • But also I think it's code for I just wanna hook up.

  • What are we?

  • I don't know if this is slaying.

  • This is something that you say to someone who you're in a nebulous relationship with.

  • Another term might be.

  • What is this or we do side.

  • These is like someone on the side.

  • It's someone you're cheating on.

  • Its someone you're cheating with Facebook Official is when you are in a relationship on Facebook, officially being Facebook officials a very important moment.

  • It's also so that the Russian bots can know who else to target in your life.

  • Friends with benefits.

  • That's when two people are friends, but they're also having intercourse or other sex acts, and that's the benefit.

  • A boy toy is usually a younger male who maybe has shallow desires and the person that they're dating all right, it's someone a boy toys, a man you're using for fun and pleasure, and nine times out of 10 he's totally cool with that.

  • Hosting is when you say on an app we can hook up at my place, all host you can come to my place.

  • My parents us a swiping right swiping left those air terms that you use on tinder When you like someone you swipe, right.

  • And when you don't like someone, you swipe left because physical appearances with the only important thing in a relationship ah, thirst trap is when you post a picture online knowing you're going to get a lot of likes for it.

  • And so it's, um, someone posting.

  • Ah, hot bikini pic.

  • I posted a picture of me in a bathing suit over the weekend that I kind of think was a first trap.

  • Stashing is when you're hiding the person that you're with from the rest of your life, so you're stashing them away.

  • This is known as an emotionally abusive relationship, So don't if someone stashing you and they're like, Let's just keep it between us.

  • They're manipulating you, and there are an emotionally abusive person and, um, know millennial phrase can never cover up for emotional abuse.

  • Slow fade is when you just slowly ghost out of someone's life, but you do it slowly, like you text them less and less and less and less talking to talking to is Apparently, when you're in the beginning stages of a relationship and you don't know what it is, so you just say you're talking to them, Okay, I'm gonna call another lifeline.

  • Austin.

  • What's on cuffing season uncovering season is when everyone becomes single.

  • The warm spring and summer months is uncovering season because relationships are shackles.

  • And that's the rumor that we should all spread, catch and release, I want to say, is when you hook up with someone and then you let them go back into the world just as well as Justus emotionally sound is when you first got them, catch releases.

  • When you hook up with someone and you don't become emotionally attached to them, it's never really slide into the D.

  • M is when you direct message someone either on Twitter instagram but the cool way to phrases like I'm just gonna slide into your dams.

  • I have been with the same man for 10 years.

  • Before there was any sort of D or M, and the way he slid into my Diem's was a good old fashioned date to be left on Red means when you sent someone a message and you can see that they've read your message, but they're not responding.

  • Benching, benching I'm gonna guess is where you have someone who you've been hooking up with.

  • But it's like they're gonna go on the sidelines for this other better person.

  • I'm gonna bench them.

  • Hope everyone's using condoms.

  • I just want to say I hope everyone's using condoms.

  • Dental dams swerve.

  • Uh, you just leave someone's life very quickly.

  • Wow.

  • A lot of words for very the same things.

  • Okay, it's when you're dodging somebody.

  • Shipping is when you root for a either fictitious couple are made people in your life to get together.

  • I shipped them.

  • I ship Ron and her Miami, Um, even if after they're still together, they're the relationship you for.

  • I learned a lot of new slang terms, but I also learned that most of them are terms that are ways to either describe, like being demeaning towards other people, leaving people or kind of trivializing a relationship with other people.

  • And I think that sometimes these words in the sling can alienate us more from real human connection.

  • And so I would say, used these words, but understand that people have feelings and you can't be cute.

  • See if you've ghosted on someone.

  • Ha, ha.

  • It's so funny to say that, but you've actually, like, disappeared from someone's life and just do him the courtesy and officially break up with them.

  • Just do that.

Hi, I'm Rachel Bloom, and I'll be teaching you some dating sling meet.

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