American Slang

Here's some slang which I've heard a lot here in New York but never outside the US.

• back in the day - some time back in the not-too-distant past
• like - most young Americans say this word about 5 times in every sentence, meaning 'to say' 'to be' or just as a random filler with no meaning, as in 'she was, like, get out of here'
  
• to luck out - contrary to what I thought, this means to be lucky
• ghetto - as in 'that supermarket is so ghetto' or 'isn't the B-Train ghetto?', both of which have been said to me. Means poor and, implicitly, black.
• douche bag - an insult, literally a bag for squirting liquid into body orifices
  
• hipster - Brooklyn is full of these, its what young arty people are before they morph into yuppies
• sketchy - is the American equivalent of dodgy in British slang - uncertain, or dubious
  
• junk - penis, as in 'man, that urinal is all open - anyone can see your junk!'