#13: You Da Bomb
Isn’t it funny how life is cyclical? When we were kids, we used all kinds of wild slang words that made our parents and grandparents clutch their pearls. What is the world coming to? How can these kids possibly become responsible, upstanding adults? Well, here we are a few decades later. Now it is our turn to clutch our pearls and roll our eyes at the kids these days.
“Da bomb” was probably one of those slang terms that you used and your parents hated. What is all this business talking about bombs? No one knows for sure where this iconic slang phrase came from. Some say it originated during the jazz scene. Others guess that it arose from the hip-hop scene of the 80s and 90s. All we know is that we used to say it and feel really cool.