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**Brian Lehrer** (0:10)
This is Brian Lehrer on WNYC, and now your calls and texts. If you are tweens or teens or parents of those to give other listeners a language lesson in things, folks are saying today that the grups, the grownups may not know. Gary and Benjamin, I think this is a father and son together on Staten Island. Hi, you're on WNYC.

**Gary** (0:35)
Hi, Brian, long time listener. Thank you for taking our call. Benjamin is actually my younger brother. And once he heard this topic, he heard that we had to call in about the terms six, seven.
See, I'm 21 years old and I already feel out of the loop on this. But the way I understand it, and I could give it to my brothers to confirm, it's like a signal that the tweens are telling each other to kind of just be in the know. So whenever any sentence comes out, whenever they hear anything with the word six or seven in it, they do the hand signal to each other and it's just a thing to laugh about.

**Brian Lehrer** (1:12)
Yeah, are you Gary or Benjamin? Who is just speaking?

**Gary** (1:15)
I'm Gary speaking.

**Brian Lehrer** (1:17)
So Benjamin, put some meat on those bones. What's six seven for you? Hey.

**Benjamin** (1:24)
Six seven, it's just two numbers, but like there's also additions of six seven. There's like four one, which are also two numbers, but it's basically just people laugh at it because everything has somewhat has to do with six seven.

**Brian Lehrer** (1:41)
In some way. I've heard six seven is meaning like, nah, like it's okay. Like six seven out of 10, something like that or not really?

**Benjamin** (1:50)
Yeah, kind of, if you put it in that perspective.

**Brian Lehrer** (1:54)
Gary and Benjamin, thank you for calling in. Kelly in Westport, you're on WNYC. Hi Kelly.

**Benjamin** (2:00)
Hey Brian, so I've got a couple of things here. Number one, maybe some other callers can enlighten me, but like Skibity, Ohio, no clue, no clue at all.
But the one that I really love that I actually think is very cool is Riz. Hey, that guy's got Riz. It's charisma.

**Brian Lehrer** (2:18)
Ah, short for charisma. Kelly, thank you very much. We're getting, we're getting a lot via text listener rights. Our 13-year-old Ella-Jane taught us chopped, means ugly, chopped, locked in, focused. Locked in is not new though. They say that in sportscasting all the time. Oh, that Aaron Judge, he's locked in. But locked in is focused. Here's another one. My daughter will say the word clocking, as in, wow, you're really clocking us right now, meaning calling us out.
And this says my students, I guess this person is a teacher, I'd also like to say, are we going to eat or nibble?
As in, oh, eat means winning or doing your best, and nibble just means kind of getting by. So are we going to eat or nibble? All right, another, another text. It's pretty clear, but something I've noticed about Gen Z kids up to and through middle school, they say search up or search it up for the internet. I first heard my 10 year old say it, and my 15 year old thinks it's strange like I do. So there's a generation gap between the 10 year old and the 15 year old. But then working in schools in all five boroughs, I hear elementary and middle school kids using that turn of phrase too. All right, Noreen in New Livingston in Jersey, you're on WNYC. Hi, Noreen.

**Noreen** (3:41)
Hi, my kids are gonna kill me for dialing in and talking about this, but I'm the only one with teenagers in my friend group, so they're always getting asked.
One thing they've been saying a lot is mogging, and it's supposed to mean someone who like looks better than everyone else in the friend group or in the picture or whatever. But lately, I've also heard them use it to mean like someone who's playing better, like in a game or a sport. So it's evolving.

**Brian Lehrer** (4:06)
It's evolving, but it's actually doing better, either looking better or playing better. It's not just sort of like posturing as if you're better than others, right? It's actually doing better or looking better.

**Noreen** (4:18)
No, it's like a physical appearance, like someone looks well put together or prettier. Got it. It's part of the whole look-matching ecosystem.

**Brian Lehrer** (4:26)
Thank you, Noreen. All right. We'll finish with some more texts. One is, a few words my nine-year-old has recently been saying. Selling, loosely meaning selling out. Bro, not new, but B-R-O-H, they wrote it, P-O-V, like we discussed, and chopped, another one referencing chopped, meaning ugly.