This isn't anything unique to my sorority, but rather to my school (MIT). We have an acronym: IHTFP. There is a whole list of things it can stand for, but the two most commonly used are:

I Have Truly Found Paradise
I Hate This F***ing Place

Guess which one is more commonly used... especially around finals ;)

Here are the ones I could think of:

All about...really want to or am excited about
I am all about going out tonight.

Pretty sure...certain
I'm pretty sure that girl is stalking my boyfriend

we use take instead of go
I need to take myself to the store

we refer to ourselves or each other as happy a$$
get your happy a$$ over here or I need to take my happy a$$ to class

we also use not so much
did you ace that test? not so much

We had a girl go through rush last year and her name was Fletcher Meister. I know it's so mean but we could not stop laughing every time her name was mentioned. The girls from her hometown said she was really nice but we couldn't help it. She ended up pledging elsewhere but we have started calling people Fletcher or Fletch if they are being dorks.

Fletcher if you ever come on GC I'm sorry

Hehehe these are great. I love how we think we all have things we or words we say with our friends that no one else uses, but in actuality we all use a lot of the same ones! :D

Some of the ones my friends and I use are:

-Random
-Laura (the name of my trashy old roommate who beat me up, so we use this to insult each other lol)
-Sea-oww (a made up word we use for good bye lol)
-I'm all about that
-Sooooo (as in "I soooooo need to go to the rec)
-Pretty sure
-Fabulous!!! :D
-F-ing (as opposed to f**king)
-Not so much, no
-Totally
We also run on "Phi Mu time" which is basically being 15 minutes late, everywhere! Oh well. ;)

I also say 2.2, as in I'll be there in 2.2 seconds......people make fun of me b/c I am the slowest person ever so this is obviously NEVER gonna be true.

jank= broken, stupid, cheap

to boot= to throw up (thank you pi kappa phi for that one)

sketch ball= creepy

forgot the rest though......sorry

pretty much anything that that uses the word "hootchie"

If we're dressing up kinda slutty for the bars, we're getting "Hootchie-fied"

If we see some girl we don't like dressed all slutty, she's "hootchie-licious" or a "hootchie-mama"

Also, any form of "skank"... my favourite is the term that has been coined for the groups of freshman girls that float around at some of the parties - "skanksville" or "skankstown"

For some reason I don't understand, we tend to call each other "ho" or "wife" if we're roommates.

(We're really not sluts, I promise....for some reason all of our slang just seems to revolve around this :D)

Kind of an old one, but "macking" - a guy usually making an idiot of himself trying to hit on an uninterested girl

Random, sketchy, and "that guy/girl" are classics!

we use some of the standards:

shady....2 versions: "Dude, that guy was shady"or "are you going shady tonight" (meaning, are you going not all primped up)

random...as in "ew, that girl is random, why is she here?"

APPARENTLY...normally the start of a scentance when you want to emphize something that isn't normal happened. "APPARENTLY she went home with him."

Dude....my sister's are dude's i don't know why. we all refer to each other as dude.

yo y'all....a greeting that is a combination of southern and northern phrases.

NOOOO....monica's no from friends

floopy.....a phoebeism, something that is totally out of oder or if your hair is messed up.

stop being pink....pm me for that one

stunck...to be stoned and drunk "i was so stunck last night!"

snig.....a cigarette "can i have a snig?"

Chopper time - 15 minuts late

zeta - pecking order - goes by initiation date. Not really kosher with IHQ, but screw em.

Flour Bluff - A house party

Buck-o-five - Skinny guy or girl

Wife Beater - Undershirt/Tank top type

Blue Quail - Lone Star light, used to have a quail on the can

Rent is due and Brian cant pay - Lets pitch in for beer

Everything - When you see soemone who is the worst sterotype of your hometown and EVERYTHING that is wrong with it or that you hate about it, "they are everything."

FNJ's - Fu*king New Guys

Gert - Short for cigerette

Hopper - Short for Chopper Hopper or a girl that has been with more than a few brothers

The big one going around in house right now is "hey let me go to the fridge and pour you a tall frosty glass of shut the fu*k up."

"Yeah, so I chewed off my hand....." = I am starving!

"Purple dove flies at midnight" (over the intercom) = If you wanna smoke, we'll be on the back porch.

"...Except not at all" = As in "Oh my God, that test was so easy.... except not at all."

Kinky-ass Ho = This one has a story behind it. My roommie and I were at Phi Kappa Tau for a party and this guy was talking about his girlfriend. We asked where she was and he said she didn't party but that she was cool in other ways because she was one "kinky-ass ho" So now we use that term all the time.

Trash = my favorite word ever... can be used in so many situations: "He is such trash," "This is a bunch of trash," "I feel like trash"

Shacked = Slept over somewhere

"Did you say he was from Toledo?" = Any reference to Toledo, Ohio means I think that person is trash.

Trailer park = trashy... as in "My hair is looking pretty trailer park, I really need to touch up my roots."

Soldja = person who can hold their liquor

Smitten kitten = Generally when someone has a crush, is in love, etc. "Well aren't you such the smitten kitten?"

Ummm... yeah = when there's dead silence.... kinda break it up with an "ummm... yeah"

Ass goblin = player

"Why do you talk?" = that was the dumbest thing I have ever heard

Ass cold = "It's ass cold outside" - damn cold, freezing, etc.

I know there are plenty more, but that's all I can think of at the moment.

Yeah, we all basically use the same terms, but here are a few that were common in my chapter:

ruckus: usually screeched in a high voice, used when we were being loud and someone else didn't appreciate it

r-stamp: something or someone is unacceptable, so they get the rejected stamp, shortened to r-stamp

always pay more: my big sis and I used "Why Pay More?" brand fruit punch as a mixer once, and we got really sick, so we learned to always pay more for the brand name

note to self: a reminder, as in, "Note to self: never buy Why Pay More? fruit punch again."

I still use the word jank :)

My favorite word regoddamndiculous (re-god-damn-diculos)

That is hilarious!!

lol we had a few that were used to the point of exhaustion around my parts...lets see there was...

"that is SO poverty"...can apply to anything or anything (might i add, that was started be a 26 y/o theta xi alumni, not some valley girl)

"yeah, only...".. like 'did you do good on that test?'..yeah, only not so much... etc

"not so much" was a huge one

"that makes me very nervous"

"the taxi"... where are you guys going?? "to ride the taxi" (i.e...over to theta xi)

as for just words:
-Rocked was a big one (very drunk)
baked, blasted, slammed, fookered up...wasted, trashed..

people said "madd" a lot..like 'that party was madd crazy'

2.2 was an infamous one...but is it ever EVER true?? lol...

"right on" and "rock on" were big..

"All-Star" = usually translates to "ho"...theta xi allstars have slept with 5 or more active brothers...petty, i know, but youll have that

"youll have that" .. as i just demonstrated

"Fantastic...And how!!"

"ROLL CALL" - - no matter what part of any given semester


...there are so many more, but im taking up a lot of space... so ill come back with a second edition soon :D

my bad...THE number one MOST popular OVERused phrase is *drumroll please*

"you shouldn't call your fraternity a frat..you wouldn't call your country a cunt"

"Um, yeah" and "Not so much" all the time!

"Alpha Chi moment" This was from when the four of us were in my car and my sister Elizabeth mentioned how her ex was invited to Alpha Chi Arrested.
Us: Who what huh? Alpha Chi...Omega??
E: That's what they go by. Alpha Chi. My mom's an Alpha Chi. That's what they call themselves. Anyway, he tells me this and I...
Us: What?! But they're A Chi O!
E: Nope. So back to my ex...
Us: But how can this be? Has it always been like this?
E: Yes. Now back to my story. Can you believe he...
Us: No, this is weird. Alpha Chi? Are you serious?
E: Yes, I'm serious. Alpha Chi. Get over it. Back to the story! He mentioned to me how he was invited to Alpha Chi Arrested and...
Us: Wait a minute! That's our date function! Pi Phi Arrested!
E: Oh my God. Please stop.

So now whenever we go off on a tangent (which is every conversation, basically) it's an Alpha Chi moment.

"Drinking takes away things like illnesses
and problems
and standards
and motor skills
and eyesight
and sometimes memory"

I quote E's fave part from "The Mexican"..."Is that my jacket?" And then she finishes, "What is WRONG with you people?"

wrecking I-Order

in the middle of a small crisis..."That's too bad. Let's go to Coldstone!"

"That's outta control!" on everything

"Had to be Pi Phi." When something goes wrong.

"Heeeeeeeeey!" when they're making fun of how cheesily I greet people

"Fraternal secrecy is above the law!" when we talk about what can be hidden in the Pi Phi Only room.

I love Cold Stone....really I hate because it's fattening but it tastes sooooooooooooo GOOD!!!

our sayings
 

Ha ha! These are so funny! We seem to use a lot of the same ones like scandalous, not so much, note to self, and a bunch of the others, but here is some of our more unique ones...

"He wants to bite your butt (accompanied with laughter)"
....we use this to make fun of someone when they get back to the group after they just escaped from being hit on by a very stupid guy. It all stems from one night when a not so hot guy came up to a sister and flat out said..."you have such a nice ass. i just want to bite your butt."

"sausage fest"
...as betarulz said it's a party where the guy to girl ratio is about 10-1. we also use the female version...donout party.

"hoodrat hoodrat hoochiemama alert!"
...when a totally skanked out (definition coming) girl starts dancing with some of our guy friends at the bar.

"you look like a freshman" or "lets have a freshman night"
...at our school you can get into the bars when you're 19, and you can always pick the freshman out since they tend to overdress. basically these terms mean you are way overdressed for where we're going, or lets get really dressed up when we go out tonight.

"sigma kappa time"
...10-15 minutes late

"katie time"
...30-45 minutes late, named after the sister who is always running so late that we have to fib to her about what time we're leaving.

"rowdy"
...used several different ways. "That's rowdy"=awesome "They're getting rowdy over there"=major groping/making out, and sex is sure to follow.

"tag"
...=sex. this one was one I brought from my hometown and has started to catch on. used as "we taged last night"

"roberta did it"
...supposoudly the dorm where all of Northwest's sororities live is haunted by a girl who died in the dorm. if something strange or freakish happens (a picture falling off the wall, lights dimming for a couple seconds, shower water going cold, etc.), we blame it on roberta.

**other ways to speak sig kap....**

*add skank to any word or phrase, even when it doesn't make sense. examples:
-that girl is skanked out...basically a chick dressing and acting like a ho
-you're such a skank ho...=you're a dumbass.

And the way you can always pick us out...
**turn common statements into questions. we do this by saying "true or false?" before a statement, or "How _____is that?!" With true or false you are usually being very sarcastic. examples....

"True or false? That test just sucked ass."
...that test sucked ass

"How fun is that!?"
...that is fun.

I could go on and on forever about more sayings, but I think that's enough for today! ;)

Oh, God, I love it, too. It's like a drug. Don't you hate it when you go at random times and it's STILL packed? It's like a fraternity party. We go between dinner and chapter almost every week, or whenever we think of it. It's so sad, the other day I had the worst craving and actually looked up other Coldstone locations and got so excited when I saw they have one in Miami. Only...not so much...it's still in construction.

Donut party?! Too funny! We use "Chick Fest" when there are too many girls, and "Sausage Fest" for lots of guys...I use "Sword Fight" sometimes.

Is that in reference to the 69 Boys song? I've always wondered what that line is..."She ain't nothin but a hoochie mama..." Hoodrat...I thought it was either "hump that" or "hung right"

My friends Danielle and Amandine have this thing that when they argue they resort to name calling. They take turns..."Skank" "Ho" "Slut" "Tramp" and so on, and whoever gets to say "Trick" wins!

Good both ways! :D

I'm just commenting on everything...I'm bored. It's 1:30 am and I'm doing my online traffic course.

LOL! I saw VEISHEA and was like whoa...then I realized it was queequek! :)

I've acquired the terms shady and sketchy this past summer.

girls in my house tend to do the "be ready in .05 seconds alot" (yeah right)

we are in iowa, so we're a little behind sometimes! lol :)

I thought of another one! SORRY! :) lol
my house tends to run late wherever we go (it drive me insane!) But we always say we're running "KD time" hehe :)

Yeah Lyrelyre I say "pretty sure" to mean certain all the time. I'm pretty sure I do it in every other sentence, haha!
We all say Uh, No (you have to yell the No) instead of saying just no, ya know we think we sound funny or something.
We call ourselves A Chi Ho (just cause we're most definately not Ho's and we think it's funny) and so whenever a group of us go to a party or something we'll be like "the ho train has arrived!". It's actually funny though it sounds bad right now.
We dropped the y on sketchy and we just say sketch. Like, that smells way sketch. Or, our house mom last year was a little sketch! (And ya know that one's true, right Mairin!)
We use the word dude an absurd amount. I call everyone dude. I'll be saying goodbye to one of my sisters and I'll be like later dude or it could be my boyfriend and I'd say the same thing. Or we'll be like damn dude! Like an exclamation of surprise or something along those lines.
I'm pretty sure that there are others but I can't really think over cause they seem so normal to me I never stop to think that other people don't talk this way, haha.

I thought of a few others:

"box moment"....a moment, usually when taking pictures when all the girls have these cheesy smiles on in cute poses...these pictures usually end up in "the box" which is a hall way with pictures of all the greek organizations.

"i.e."...used as an example or to illustrate a point... "that girl is a hooch, i.e. she is wearing shorts up her butt!"

"stirer"....came from the phrase "stir the pot" it is used for people who like to cause controversy. "I feel the need to be a stirer tonight!"

"flying pheramones"....when its all girls talking at the exact same time and totally understanding what everyone is saying.

" I was that girl/guy".....someone who got a little out of control or did something "random" or "shady".

"hoochie ways"....this can be used in pretty much any context when someone is acting inappropriately...."that girl and her hoochie ways by getting all up on that guy"...."that girl and her hoochie ways wearing too much makeup and skanky clothes"..."that girl and her hoochie ways by starting all this controversy"....ect.

ok, so i tried to put all of this together....
Apparently, last night during rush practice Maggie was trying to create some box moments, but it was totally flying pheramones in there! And then Amy the stirer came in and was totally acting like "that girl", ie. she was causing lots of controversy with her hoochie ways.

hehe, I thought of a couple more, too.

ghetto: pertains to anything broken-down or trashy looking that may belong in a ghetto. An example: "My old car was so ghetto because I had to keep the passenger side mirror on with duct tape." This can also apply to sketchy or skanky people.

"I'm so excited! I'm so excited! I'm so...scared.": This is from the infamous episode of Saved By The Bell where Jessie takes the caffiene pills (or diet pills, whatever they were).

doot-da-do: This was actually started by this skeevy guy that no one can stand, but it caught on somehow. It usually means something like "duh" but is also said during long pauses in conversation or it is used as an interjection. Example: "I totally ran into that pole in the basement, and I was like, 'doot-da-do, no one saw that'."

I'm pretty sure sketchy is an all-over term cause everyone I know uses it and I've never been to the New England area. I usually just say sketch though....i say "son" and "kid" a lot too in reference to people.

Edition II
 

back with some more ball state, sig kap, (and probably all over), stuff...

like was said before - -

*bunk
*jank

what else...

*foreal?! - - more like 'fo-rill' than 'for real'

*going to see letterman - - going to sig chi... david letterman was a sig chi at our school

*i know, right? - - who doesnt say that??

*don't be one - - don't be that girl or that guy

*don't get all -- used however..don't get crazy, dont get lippy, dont whatever

*"fat girl!!" - - this sounds really mean, but let me explain... we get along with just about every organization on campus, except one sorority in particular....well......they think they re big bad asses (theyre not) ...and while a lot of them are overweight, they call US Sigma Cattle (Kappa)....but we're all real easy going and have good senses of humor so whenever we'd see a girl with XYZ letters on, we'd be like 'HEY FAT GIRL!!' to whoever we were with.. theyd over hear us and get pissy...then it just grew on us, so everyones a fat girl, lol

*kid - - i call EVERYONE kid...or kiddo

*"OK Anita" - - hate to say it, but you know that one girl that no one had a thing against but nobody particularly liked?? well anita was that girl..i mean, she wasnt all bad.. iwent to high school with her too so i knew her a little better than everyone else... but still, she had a habit of saying some REALLY stupid things, and doing things even worse....so sometimes wehn people do something dumb, "OK Anita" usually comes out of someones mouth


ok thats all for now.. more to come im sure :D

my friends tend to call all hot girls "sluts" wether they are or not, its no longer derogatory around us because we know that it just means we are looking especially hot that night...some guys I know do it too, I just think it's funny....;)

shady sketchy and random
 

I dunno about New England, guys- I've lived in South FL my whole life and we've said all that since high school! (We just usually shorten sketchy to just plain sketch...):)

more fun stuff
 

yeppers! At least I think they're saying hoodrat! :p :D

My really close friends and I do that ALL the time!!! Sometimes we'll add in the name of a person we're not too fond of! ;) In my hometown we do it too, and we call it the name game (and usually people's names are used more often than ho and stuff). We had the name of this one really big skank girl that was our winning word...but I can't remember who it was anymore!

Of course! ;) :p :D


To whoever said they use gettho all the time, I do that too...often as a replacement word for skank or shit. examples...
*That ghetto car of mine
*She has some ghetto hair
*I'm feeling rather ghetto today

Another thing I realized we do is that we tend to quote eachother's dumbest lines all the time, and they eventually turn into slang. It seems like we're always giving each other shit (all in fun and with love...no meanness meant at all)!

I really think I should start a slang dictionary for all the stuff we say. It would be so funny looking back 25 years down the road at it!:D My sorority has some very sarcastic girls (myslef included) so it would be a rather large dictionary...maybe something we could pass a copy down to every year and have new additions!

And oh yes, one last one...how could I forget the ever popular "check ya later" or check ya" instead of "see you later" or "see ya"!!

we have our "spirit keg" and spirit sprinkler" were we tap a keg and spread it around(just hand motions) or a sprinkler..we are really stupid and ghetto so it is just funny and pumps us up..
Also if someone is making us mad or being an idiot we say "Youuuuu ...Motherf$@&*#!"

More sayings are:Random, badass,sucks for you,Play it off....I just heard a new one" your outta luck like chuck",lmao...and if your late your on "Greek Time" ...Ohh and a few of us use the sorority lingo "like" for every sentence.I have even caught myself saying it more and more..It's contagious

:rolleyes:

Chapter sayings here @ Tri Sigma
 

*We use the standard "We're on DZ TIME" because we're late.. not like 5 minutes or whatev.. like 20-30, sometimes an hour late.

*We use "Sketchy" a lot.. and

*"I'm not impressed with your behavior" -we use that ALL the time..

..trying to think of others..

I wished I'd written down some of them. I remember the TKEs used to use "hopped" for shacked with - as in the time I let a nice visiting Nebraska TKE walk me home from a party, and they all wanted to know the next day "D'ja hop that Husker?"

They also used the British term "NAF", which = sad, pathetic, (they claimed it stood for "Needs a Friend")

The only one I remember from my own sorority was the "L" handsignal - as in "why are you dancing with the Loser" or "for god's sake, come rescue me from this Loser"

We use that too... except it's Chi Delta time. Being fashionably late seems to be our thing. Even though it shouldn't be.

"Random" is also part of our vocab.


ETA: Because after reading the guestbook over and over again on our site, the phrase "Good times" seems to be the thing to say in our chapter. And any variation of the phrase. ("Awesome times" comes to mind.)

Let's see... my chapter uses "tool" alot to describe dense, meatheaded fraternity men

we also like to jokingly say "disowned" to our littles

unacceptable is also a popluar one

P.S.

we also have this thing where we will "hair flip" people when someone makes fun of you or whatever you say "I hair flip you" and flip your hair and turn your head as if you're ignoring them.

We also have private chapter nicknames for some of the boys that they don't know about. ;)

Hahaha...we definitely use APO Time too. (15-30 minutes late) :D

Shut up! is my personal favorite just to express excitement. From TLC What Not to Wear-Stacy (I LOVE that show!)

My chapter uses most of these phrases that have already been mentioned, or some variations of them. There are a couple more, however.

"Turtle Time"--Particularly appropriate, because Turtle Time is always at least 30 minutes late; usually more like an hour to an hour and a half.

"Give me, like, 2 seconds."--Variation on the 2.2/2.5 second thing.

"...IN DOVER!"--This is one of those things that you probably had to be there for it to be funny, but we think it's hilarious, so I thought I'd mention it anyway. During rush, one of my sisters (who's a huge NASCAR fan--even more so than I am) said something about wanting to go to the race in Dover. Another sister of mine has grandparents who live in Dover, and they agreed to go together. It started out with them just yelling out "We're going to Dover!" at random times. It eventually evolved into using the word "Dover" in every single sentence, even when it doesn't make sense, i.e., "I'm going to wear that purple skirt tonight...IN DOVER!" "I've got to study tomorrow in the chapter room...IN DOVER!"

Those are the only ones I can think of right now.

derty: i guess we replace the word damn with this word
get er done!: oh you know!

and that's about it...we'll use regular words, just pronounce them different, I guess

We run on Phi Mu time, too- usually 15 minutes late!

Our chapter also uses "...like it's my job", as in " I was painting signs like it's my job". To start out a crazy story, we'll use the phrase "So there I was...." and then launch into it, that way everyone knows they need to listen to this one!

Oh girls-- I have been an alum for 4 years now-- and for our alumnae board meetings we stilllllllll run on ADPi time!!