5 Important Phrases YOU Need to Know 

We all need to converse sensibly with our offspring and especially with our teenaged grandkids whose sole raison d'etre is to "help" us with new technologies. Why not WOW them with your vocabulary? 

Personally, it doesn't matter whether I am BSing or actually have the goods, using current speech makes you one cool dude. 

1. Redact (ree DAKT) means edit

• You gather information from a number of sources on the same topic and write it in one article 
• Sometimes it means to obscure information for security reasons 
• Often used in the past tense 
• Moron et al redacted their comments on the inauguration from late night TV commentaries. 

  2. Amuse bouche -- (ah MOOS boosh)

• means a free, very small and often artistic hors d'euvre
• Free food you say? 
• At least that is the traditional meaning of amuse-bouche (these French words mean "fun in your mouth", basically)
• Now, however, it alludes to a quickie--first thing in the morning before work--that is a prelude to longer lovemaking to come! 

3. Jonesing for -- means crave, want it, need it

• I'm jonesing for a vanilla spice latte'
• probably doesn't hark back to keeping up with the proverbial Jones's

4. Cray-cray and Jelly -- means crazy and jealous

• You're going to Starbucks? I'm so jelly!
• Cray=crazy; cray-cray=really crazy (usually crazy in this sense means wild and wonderful) That movie was so cray

5. YOLO --- You Only Live Once

• Should I spend my whole allowance or save it? YOLO

My senior sources for this info were many and varied but personally, whenever I find something in print that is some new thing, I check out URBAN DICTIONARY first. It's not for the feint of heart, though.