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title: "totally · GenZ Decoded"
description: "totally: An intensifier meaning very, completely, or extremely. Example: \"That movie was totally awesome.\" Meaning, Gen X usage, and related slang."
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# totally

Gen X[#lifestyle](https://genzdecoded.com/slang-for/lifestyle/)

**Meaning.** An intensifier meaning very, completely, or extremely.

See it in a sentence

That movie was totally awesome.

## How each generation says it

The closest equivalent for this idea in every generation.

- Gen Z

    [AF](https://genzdecoded.com/dictionary/af/),[ASL](https://genzdecoded.com/dictionary/asl/)

- Gen Alpha

    No word for this one yet.

- Millennial

    [totes](https://genzdecoded.com/dictionary/totes/)

- Gen X · this one

    totally,[to the max](https://genzdecoded.com/dictionary/to-the-max/)

- Boomer

    [super](https://genzdecoded.com/dictionary/super/)

- Plain English

    intensifier meaning very, completely, or extremely

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## Related slang

- [the game](https://genzdecoded.com/dictionary/the-game/): Life itself, seen as something to be navigated, hustled through, or won.
- [to the max](https://genzdecoded.com/dictionary/to-the-max/): Intensifier meaning extremely or very.
- [touch books](https://genzdecoded.com/dictionary/touch-books/): A play on "touch grass" urging people to log off and read or visit the library.
- [twerk](https://genzdecoded.com/dictionary/twerk/): To dance squatting low with fast hip thrusts that make the buttocks shake, a move usually read as sexually suggestive.

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