Slang terms like ‘six-seven’ have no definition. But they’re loaded with meaning

像“six-seven”这样的俚语没有定义,但它们蕴含着丰富的意义

‘Part of the psychosocial development of young people is differentiating themselves from their community, from older people,’ says Dr Nicole Holliday, an associate professor of linguistics at University of California, Berkeley.

‘Part of the psychosocial development of young people is differentiating themselves from their community, from older people,’ says Dr Nicole Holliday, an associate professor of linguistics at University of California, Berkeley.

2025-10-30  808  中等
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The phrase appears to have its roots in a song by the Philadelphia rapper Skrilla, perhaps referring to 67th Street; from there, it was used in videos featuring the 6ft-7in NBA player LaMelo Ball, and Taylen Kinney, a 17-year-old basketball star, helped it go viral when he used the phrase to rank a drink from Starbucks. It’s often accompanied by upturned palms rising and falling. But the specifics don’t hugely matter. It’s just something people like to say – or did, before adults picked up on it. The same is true of words like “skibidi”, which Merriam-Webster calls a “nonsense internet term”. Then there are words whose meanings fluctuate, like “sigma”, which can be a compliment or part of an expression of confusion, as in “What the sigma?”

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