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title: "Word deep-dives, page 7 · GenZ Decoded"
description: "More in-depth Gen Z slang guides (page 7): meaning, origin, and how to use each word."
url: "https://genzdecoded.com/blog/page/7/"
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# Word deep-dives

Page 7 of 21

- [cortisol-coded](https://genzdecoded.com/blog/cortisol-coded/): Cortisol-coded means stressful-looking, an aesthetic judgment about how something looks rather than a claim about anyone's actual stress hormones.
- [stay up](https://genzdecoded.com/blog/stay-up/): Encouragement to keep your spirits, strength, or resolve up, most often said after bad news, grief, or a setback.
- [headcanon](https://genzdecoded.com/blog/headcanon/): A fan's personal interpretation of a character or story that the work itself never officially established.
- [mood](https://genzdecoded.com/blog/mood/): An internet slang reply meaning "I relate to that," used to say a post captures how the replier feels, with no comment on the poster's own state.
- [selling](https://genzdecoded.com/blog/selling/): Selling means someone's play or effort is hurting the team's chances of winning, usually said mid-match or mid-project, without by itself claiming they meant to lose.
- [tapped](https://genzdecoded.com/blog/tapped/): Tapped usually means someone is acting irrationally or unreasonably; tapped out means depleted, usually broke or exhausted; and a tapped phone means it's believed to be secretly monitored.
- [freaky](https://genzdecoded.com/blog/freaky/): Freaky usually means unusually strange or unsettling, and in a flirtatious or private context it's a sexual euphemism meaning sexually adventurous or uninhibited.
- [turnt](https://genzdecoded.com/blog/turnt/): Highly excited, wild, or energetic, often describing a party's atmosphere or a person's state, with intoxication as one possible but not required sense.
- [hits different](https://genzdecoded.com/blog/hits-different/): Hits different means something affects someone more strongly or more personally than usual, whether that's a song, a memory, or a moment, and the feeling usually leans positive but can turn bittersweet depending on the context.
- [stacks on stacks](https://genzdecoded.com/blog/stacks-on-stacks/): An emphatic boast meaning layers of money or more cash than a simple count is meant to capture.
- [moots](https://genzdecoded.com/blog/moots/): Moots means mutual followers, people who follow each other back on a social platform, and the word is an unrelated homograph of the everyday moot (as in moot point), never a stretched meaning of it.
- [rack](https://genzdecoded.com/blog/rack/): Money slang for one thousand dollars.