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He ain’t even gotta try to put the mac on 

He just gotta give me that look, when he give me that look 

Then the panties comin’ off, off, uh 

Excuse me, you’re a hell of a guy you know I really got a thing for American guys 

I mean, sigh, sickenin’ eyes I can tell that you’re in touch with your feminine side, oh 

Yes I did, yes I did, somebody please tell him who the eff I is 

I am Nicki Minaj, I mack them dudes up, back coupes up, and chuck the deuce up

 

 

In this verse “...he ain’t even gotta try to put the mac on...” there are two slang words, i.e. ain’t 

and gotta

.  Ain’t means is not and gotta means got to. So if it is written with standard language it 

becomes “he is not even got to try to put the mac on” 

 

Besides music, TV programs and movies can also be the source of the English slang words 

acquisition. For example, one of the box office movies entitled Hangover part III uses this tagline “The 

Epic Finale To The Hangover Trilogy”. Epic

 is one of the new insights of pre-existing word in slang. 

It has popular synonyms with massive, huge, incredible and awesome. So, the tagline means that the 

final part of hangover movie is awesome. The tagline makes people curious and can’t wait to watch 

this movie. 

 

Last but not least, social media. Social media such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr, 

9gag become the source of English slang words acquisition. Some accounts from twitter (a 

microblogging service that enables users to send and read messages of up to 140 characters which is 

known as tweets) and one picture from 9gag (a social media website by image-based which centres 

around user-uploaded) that contain English slang words were selected as examples. 

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Tweet by autocorrects that contains a slang word OMFG in tweet: 

 

“*Phone falls* OMFG NOO! PLEASE STILL WORK! I LOVE YOU! *Friends falls* 

HAHAHA!” 

(OMFG is an acronym of Oh My Fuckin God) 

 

Tweet by autocorrects that contains another slang word nerd in his tweet: 

 

 “Dear girls who take a pic in slutty clothing & glasses & label the caption “nerddd lol” 

You’re not a nerd, you’re a whore who found glasses.” 

(Nerd is a new insight of the pre-

existing word which means an individual persecuted for his superior skills or intellect, most 

often people who fear and envy him/her) 

 

Tweet by funnyhumors that contains a slang word lame in his tweet: 

 

“That fake laugh you have to pull when an old person tells a lame joke!” 

(Lame is a new 

insight of the pre-existing words which means stupid or foolish) 

 

Tweet by funnyhumors that contains another slang words dude and LOL in is tweet: 

 

“Why didn’t you reply to my text?” “Dude! How am I supposed to reply to LOL?” (Dude is a 

new insight of the pre-existing words of chummy call for brother or it has same meaning with 

another slang word (kind of clipping) which is bro. LOL is an acronym of Laugh Out Loud).  

 

Tweet by funnyhumors that contains slang word IDK in his tweet: 

 

“Ever want to say IDKwithout sounding stupid? Say this: I hesitate to articulate in fear I may 

deviate upon the highest degree of accuracy” 

(IDK is an acronym of I Don’t Know). 

 

The picture below contains slang words “bitch” and “shit”. Bitch here means annoying female 

and  shit  is the most popular swear according to urban dictionary. So, the sentence “that bitch ain’t 

getting shit!!!” means she swear that annoying female will not get it. 

 

 

 

 

Figure 1 “No she ain’t!” 

(Source: 9gag.com) 

 

 

METHOD 

 

 

To achieve the objectives mentioned, qualitative method with the paradigm of experimental 

design to obtain quantitative data and interpretative analysis was applied. The study was conducted in 

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several steps. First, literature retrieval in the library to select and collect relevant theories related to 

English slang. Second, the questionnaires were designed and tested as the instrument for data 

collection. Third, the questionnaires were then distributed to respondents. Fourth, the answers from 

respondents were collected in the form of qualitative data. The data gathered were then analyzed and 

interpreted based on relevant theories about sociolinguistic study, and about language variation 

especially English slang. These data were carefully classified and interpretatively analyzed. The result 

of the analysis was descriptively presented. To make it easier to read the result of the analysis, bar 

charts are also presented.