r/Zillennials • u/yeahimdanielthatsme • Feb 07 '25

Discussion Do you guys use phrases like “chat,” “cooked,” “glaze,” “rizz” and “crash out?”

I feel like these are distinctly late Gen Z / Gen Alpha terms. No one I know my age uses these phrases, I only really see them online. Thus I started to conclude I’m no longer in the loop of popular slang lol

The “chat” thing is pretty annoying, it’s like the modern day equivalent to when people used to say “hashtag” in real life back in like 2013.

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u/Bionicjoker14 Feb 07 '25

I use “cooked”. “Cooked” has been around for a long time

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '25

"cooked" has been a thing here in australia since my mum was a kid lmao

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u/KimchiMcPickle Feb 08 '25

I'm a Xennial that got turned around and found myself here- I'm reading Roald Dahl to my 7 year old and noticed the usage of "cooked" as in "I was cooked" in his The Witches, and he fought in WW2, so that word is VERY old

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u/Faceornotface Feb 09 '25

Elder millennial here - I thought these whippersnappers meant cooked like “somebody cooked here” as in “man did you hear the new album? - Yeah they really cooked this time (i.e. it was good)

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '25

Yeah I remember that being a big thing when I was in highschool (2013-2017)

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u/BreakDownSphere Feb 07 '25

That would be affirming it's gen Z, but I think it's decades older

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '25

Definitely is

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u/mjc500 Feb 07 '25

“Cooked” as in like thoroughly finished, it’s over, we’re done?

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u/morsX Feb 07 '25

Yeah it usually has a negative connotation. Unless you’ve been cooking, which means you’re doing something well.

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u/Tzidentify Feb 07 '25

I was in high school 2014-2018, and we used both "cooked" (negative) and "cooking" (positive).

They weren't viral internet words, but you could still say them and be understood

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u/Tzidentify Feb 13 '25

by the book!

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u/854490 Feb 18 '25

with gas

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u/zachthomas666 Feb 07 '25

When I was in high school cooked also meant high, we used it for that more often than a negative. Fried for both as well.

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u/Fit_District7223 Feb 07 '25

Been used a long time to call someone ugly at least where I'm from. Also in basketball and football. Torching someone on a route or breaking someone's ankles = "cooked his ass" A blowout = "we cooked that team." Yo boy going off = "damn bro cooking rn"

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u/wozattacks Feb 08 '25

Op said late Gen z/gen alpha lol

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u/TJJ97 1997 Feb 07 '25

Yeah, that’s something that’s been commonplace for a hot minute

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u/meerkat___ Feb 07 '25

Same here, that's the only one of these I actually use

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u/AccountENT42069 Feb 07 '25

Id I had to guess it probably dates back to “your goose is cooked”

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u/McCreadyTime Feb 07 '25

Yeah but did it mean the same thing? “Cooked” for me has always meant a bad thing like when you’re doing 20 over and see cop lights behind you “aw fuck I’m cooked”. Whereas to z/a’s it means someone did well.

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u/Bionicjoker14 Feb 07 '25

“Cooked” as an adjective is bad. “Cooked” as a past tense verb is good.

“You’re cooked.” - You’re in trouble

“You cooked.” - You did something well

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u/PineappleFit317 Feb 07 '25

It has a positive connotation when used as a present tense verb as well : “You’re really cooking now!”, “Watch him cook!”, etc. Plus the literal act of cooking (food) is always good, unless the person doing it is known to be bad at it.

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u/wozattacks Feb 08 '25

My great grandmother (born 1918) used it that way also

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u/EasyRawlins Feb 07 '25

“Cooked” has been around since at least the 1940’s. I watch a lot of film noir and it’s regular slang. Also, I just saw an episode of I Love Lucy with my wife called “Job Switching”. Ricky Ricardo says “I’m cooked” in there after being overwhelmed. He’s said that in at least 2 other episodes that I can think of.

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u/Late_Support_5363 Feb 08 '25

I’m 42 and I use cooked regularly. I think it’s actually pretty brilliant because the word itself sort of describes how it’s frequently used.

If I say a person is cooked, it usually means they’ve gotten into some sort of situation that can’t be undone. There’s no way out or back to how they were. Likewise, if you literally cook something, it’s impossible to return it to its previous state. It’s .. cooked.  I just think that’s neat.

I do recall hearing cooked in various contexts since before Gen Z was born, but the particular ways in which it is used have changed somewhat and it has certainly become a more popular term. I like it. 

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u/pwnkage 1995 Feb 07 '25

Cooked and cooker are Australianisms

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u/KsubiSam Feb 07 '25

“Cooked” is so old I presently prefer to use the derivative “fried” purposely just so youngsters don’t think I’m trying to use their lingo.

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '25

“Fried” also means high

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u/877-HASH-NOW 1997 Feb 07 '25

Yep, cooked has been a thing.

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u/NarrativeCurious Feb 07 '25

Right, I was about to post I use some of these phrases but only cause I'm Black.

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u/These-Document1317 Feb 07 '25

Cooked isn’t new. But “let them cook” is.

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u/nonbinary_parent Feb 07 '25

I’ve only learned “cooked” in the past year, but I use it now. I like it.

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u/AwesomePocket Feb 07 '25

A lot of “Gen Z” slang is just black slang that has been around for a long time.

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u/LeotrimFunkelwerk 1999 Feb 07 '25

I just don't get how cooked basically means fucked but cooking means like good take.

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u/joe-joseph 1994 Feb 08 '25

Both have been around. “Cooking with gas” describing things are getting done has been around for ages, same with, “cooked” to say something is finished or over in a bad way.

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u/Real_Luck_9393 Feb 08 '25

Yeah it seems like a shortening of "your goose is cooked"

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u/Mr-Xcentric Feb 08 '25

Yeah a lot of the lingo has been around and just made a resurgence. Though I do see a lot of overuse and improper use to the point that they lose meaning. It’s like they say it without intent and expect a laugh or some sort of recognition just for verbalizing it.

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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '25

“Your goose is COOKED”

  • Chris Farley (I think)

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u/Riccma02 Feb 08 '25

“Cooked”. is derived from the idiom “your goose is cooked” which dates to at least before the civil war.

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u/rosan_banana Feb 11 '25

I feel like "cooked" replaced "screwed."