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Something that Confuses the Terminator From the Future

 
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I'm not a native English speaker and very often I come across English phrases in movies that I cannot understand from a dictionary. Here it is

From the TV program Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2xL-U18yFU

There are 2 phrases I dont understand:

1. It's tight.

What does tight here mean?

2. Bitch whore much

ok, I know 'bitch whore'. But, what does 'much' here mean?


 
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Alec Lee wrote:What does tight here mean?


It's kind of a synonym for "good". Or maybe "attractive". Probably not a term you want to use yourself, because (a) the original derivation is sexual, and (b) it's the sort of slang that, by the time you and I have heard about it, kids have moved on to some new and different word.

Alec Lee wrote:2. Bitch whore much

ok, I know 'bitch whore'. But, what does 'much' here mean?


There's a general construct "X much?", where X can be any phrase, and "X much?" means "Do you do [X] very often?" Or replace "do" with "act like" or "act like a person who", or something similar. Usually X is something bad, and "X much?" implies that the person being spoken to has just demonstrated that they do, indeed, do X.

In this example, X is "bitch whore". Which is a slang way of saying "act like a bitch", which is further slang for act like a person the speaker considers bad/evil/whatever. You can translate the whole phrase as "gosh, you're acting like a jerk". Except no trendy young person would ever say that nowadays. They would instead use whatever trendy slang phrase has since come along to replace "bitch whore much".
 
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