Do you know what the words delulu and cheugy mean, or do they sound like gobbledegook?
The gap between the TikTok generation and the baby boomers could be described as "whacking", meaning older folk do not have the faintest idea what is going on.
Slang has provided an alternate means of communication for years – and the zoomers certainly did not invent it.
But for those struggling to keep up, we met students at the Northern Academy of Performing Arts (Napa), in Hull, to get the lowdown on the latest buzz words – before heading to the city's indoor market to test them out on boomers.
One of the terms up for discussion is "brain rot" – which the Oxford English Dictionary describes as "a perceived loss of intelligence or critical thinking skills... as attributed to the overconsumption of unchallenging or inane content or material."









