• whoareu
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    10 months ago

    Could you explain it to me? I don’t really know the meaning of “it’s sick” (Is it ill?)

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      10 months ago

      Sick can be used either to refer to something unfortunate (as in ill), or to refer to something really awesome. It’s just casual American slang.

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      10 months ago

      Sick is said as a bad thing. But in teenager slang it can be used as something cool.

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        10 months ago

        That’s why biden used this double meaning word… I see.

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          10 months ago

          No. It only has that meaning if you’re 14 and very edgy. No adult will use it like a teenager would.

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            10 months ago

            Sick has had this meaning since like… The 70s or 80s. Its not just edgy teens. In fact I suspect that this has probably fallen out of favor with gen alpha.

            So if anything, I think you probably have that exactly backwards

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              10 months ago

              Still at least two generations newer than any slang Biden would use.

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              It’s been around for a long time but you stop using it like that once you have a sliver of adulthood. The point being that no Biden did not use it as a double entendre.