Name: 11 common English words with slang meanings you can’t guess!
Uploaded: 2022-08-21T19:20:12.000Z
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Future simple

I'm adam in today's video, I have a bit of a treat for you, Okay, I'm gonna teach you some new words.

First, before I get into it, let me just show you these words, vegetable, beef, dead beat, crash acts can dirt trash, sick and bust.

Now you're probably sitting there going, these are kind of basic, everyday words, right?

Like I said, everyday words, but I'm gonna show you the slang uses of these words.

I'm gonna show you how these words means.

Something completely different than the meanings you're probably associating with them.

So for example, vegetable, I think everybody knows this word vegetable, it's something you eat, right?

So you have like a lettuce, for example, is a vegetable or cucumber.

But did you know that vegetable can also mean when we talk about something, being in a vegetative state, when a person, for example, let's say someone got into a car accident and hit his or her head and they're in the hospital and they're in a state of a coma, they're in a vegetative state.

There's not much brain frequency, there's not much brain activity.

This person is like a vegetable just lying there, not moving right, so alive, but not moving.

So we call this person in slang, we say he or she is a vegetable.

So we, when we talk about somebody, when we say, you know, he's not that smart, he's like, he's a vegetable.

He's a body with no brain, but and another way to use it to veg out okay as a verb and we use veg like it sounds like a J.

To veg out means to relax and do nothing.

Okay So as a non native english speaker you're thinking veg veg.

You're gonna go home and eat vegetables all weekend.

No I'm gonna lie on my couch like a vegetable doing nothing relaxing.

Okay so to veg out from vegetable or if someone is a vegetable not doing anything or not not too much brain power their beef.

And again you're thinking okay again food you eat beef you know cow cooked beef beef can also mean complaint or a problem.

So you go to your boss and you say you know I have a beef with you, I have a beef with you means I have a problem with you.

I have a complaint about you and the boss says well take your beef to HR.

I don't wanna hear your complaint complaint.

I have a beef with you, take your beef elsewhere, take your complaints, take your problem somewhere else okay dead dead means dead not alive but we use it not only for living things.

We use it for places okay, it basically means empty or quiet.

So you go to a club and you're at the club and your friend calls, you say how how is it there?

It means that there's not many people and there's not much activity and it's very quiet.

If you go to a restaurant, how is the restaurant?

So anything that any place you go to, there's not much action, not much activity.

You say it's dead or not Many people you say it's dead and you move on beat.

Now beat can mean like to beat somebody okay?

Okay so you come home and your friend or your roommate says how do you feel beat?

As an adjective means I'm very, very tired, I want to go to sleep.

So then your friend says, well why don't just crash?

Crash means go to sleep or sleep over at someone's house.

So my apartment, for example, my apartment, for some reason has lots of cockroaches.

Somebody left some garbage in the hallway and cockroaches came in and they came under my door.

So I called the company to come clean it up but they're gonna put like some poison fume to kill them all.

So I called my friend and say I can't stay in my apartment tonight, Can I crash at your house?

But when you think about the every day used to crash like a car crash, that's why it's called a car crash.

But crash means to sleep, I'm gonna crash or can I crash to sleep over at somebody's house?

It's like a long stick with a metal piece very sharp on one side and you use it to cut trees.

You use it to cut down a tree, but it also means to fire someone, so to fire someone.

So the boss is gonna act or the company is gonna act 1000 jobs.

Act means to fire to let somebody go, okay, Somebody got axed, got axed or got the ax means somebody or somebody lost his or her job.

You actually hear this quite a bit in sports.

And finally the coach got asked okay, now can, can, has so many uses, I can swim, I can do this, I can do that.

I have a can of coke that I'm going to drink all kinds of different meanings for ken, But do you know that can also means to fire someone.

Now this is a very slang when you say someone got canned, it means they lost their job.

Same as acts very completely different word, right dirt.

Now again, you're thinking dirt on the ground, you have to sweep it, you have to wash it or you have some dirt on your on yourself, you go take a shower, it's gone, dirt can also mean information, but usually when you have dirt on someone, when you have dirt on someone, you have secret information and it's information.

So if you're a politician for example, and you have some good dirt on your opponent, you can embarrass him or her in the media and win your election.

So if someone has dirt on you, you should be very worried if you get dirt on someone else, you have a little bit of power over them.

So again, you know trash, garbage rubbish, you take it outside or you have a trash bin, but two trash can also mean to destroy or to damage.

So my friends went to las Vegas and they got a little bit, you know too excited and too happy and too drunk and they went back to their hotel room and they just trashed it.

It means you can think of it like they turned it into garbage, if that helps you remember, but basically it means they destroyed it, they caused a lot of damage.

So if someone trashed a place, they did a lot of damage.

But you can also trash someone's reputation, you can talk say very negative things about someone and hurt his or her reputation and their reputation is now in the trash.

So you basically destroyed or damaged their reputation.

Sick sick is a little bit more of a modern slang.

It hasn't been around very long, but now it's just a part of common speech.

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11 common English words with slang meanings you can’t guess!

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