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sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• toynbee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Today I watched a YouTube video in which two people played a game, one person jumped, and the other said “whoa, you’ve got hops!”

  At the time I took it literally, but now I see you saying the she same thing and am forced to wonder: is that a thing? I ask sincerely, not with derision.

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  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Uh yeah, maybe its a but outdated of slang now, but … ‘you’ve got hops’ is basically ‘you can jump high’.

    Hops is … I guess just older, 90s/00s, Millenial slang for ‘jumping ability/prowess/skill’, something like that.

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    • toynbee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Interesting. I could extrapolate the meaning, but I’m a bit older than your description of “outdated” and have never heard it in that context before. Perhaps j was just too unpopular to hear it.

      Thanks for the edification!

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      • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Oops, I assumed you were Gen Z or A!

        Uh, uh,… radical, tubular, or something, lol.

        … Groovy?

        lol.

        Yeah, there’s a lot of fairly age specific lingo in all age brackets… and its possible the ‘mad hops’ phrasing also had a regional component that I just never noticed due to not travelling to many other parts of the US as a kid?

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      • Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Millennial here. I’ve never heard it either. /shrug.

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