Slang Watch

The chronic bubonic was so federal that one student decided to hork it.

If you were a student at the University of California at Los Angeles, you'd know the translation:

The really potent marijuana was so extremely good that one student decided to take it all for himself.

That's according to the U.C.L.A. linguistics department's newly released slang dictionary.

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