Predict the future - nicknames and slang

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What nicknames and slang terms can you see becoming the main, 'proper' term for the thing they describe in years to come?

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 13:02 (twenty-two years ago)

I know it's a very tricky question. But there seem to be some walks of life and groups of people among whom it happens more often than others. Politics is particularly prone to this I think - 'Prime Minister' and 'Tory' being examples.

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 13:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Didn't someone use the term "dis" (as in "why you dissin', yo?") in Congress not too long ago?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 13:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Drokk!

― Vic Fluro, Wednesday, 23 June 2004 13:32 (twenty-two years ago)

I can see how "diss" could gradually be assimilated into mainstream speech without too many raised eyebrows. There are time when usage is an obvious step too far - "sexing up" the WMD document being an obvious example.

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 13:34 (twenty-two years ago)

"We searched most of Iraq for weapons of mass destructions... WITH SEXY RESULTS!"

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 14:12 (twenty-two years ago)

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