Quiz: How Good Is Your '90s Mall Slang?

If you worked at Express in the '90s, you'd have to learn your phats from your fines in an employee handbook called Express You! Street Verbage Guide.

In an attempt to make their employees downright dope, mall clothing chain Express gave workers this handbook/dictionary that decoded the language of the youths.

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Note the incorrect spelling — verbage — which should read verbiage.

The book of terms has some familiar ones — phat, bomb, mad, ill, lame, etc. — but others are a bit more obscure. For the full list, you can read and study up here. But it's recommended you rely on your own memory.

Rock on, homie.