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title: "what’s your damage? · GenZ Decoded"
description: "what’s your damage?: A confrontational way to ask what someone’s problem is. Example: \"What’s your damage today?\" Meaning, Millennial usage, and related slang."
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# what’s your damage?

Millennial[#social](https://genzdecoded.com/slang-for/social/)

**Meaning.** A confrontational way to ask what someone’s problem is.

See it in a sentence

What’s your damage today?

## How each generation says it

The closest equivalent for this idea in every generation.

- Gen Z

    No word for this one yet.

- Gen Alpha

    [what is bro doing?](https://genzdecoded.com/dictionary/what-is-bro-doing/)

- Millennial · this one

    what’s your damage?

- Gen X

    No word for this one yet.

- Boomer

    [what's your bag](https://genzdecoded.com/dictionary/what-s-your-bag/)

- Plain English

    confrontational way to ask what someone’s problem is

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## Related slang

- [what’s the tea?](https://genzdecoded.com/dictionary/what-s-the-tea/): A casual way to ask for gossip, news, or an update.
- [what's your bag](https://genzdecoded.com/dictionary/what-s-your-bag/): A way of asking what someone's problem, interest, or hang-up is.
- [with it](https://genzdecoded.com/dictionary/with-it/): Describes someone as confident, self-assured, and in touch with what they believe.
- [woke](https://genzdecoded.com/dictionary/woke/): Alert to social and racial injustice; the original earnest sense from AAVE, before later ironic use.

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