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[nq:1]When a girl turns down a dude she doesn't want to go out with him any more. What is a slang expression for such situation? bounced?[/nq]
Ditched? Chucked? Jilted?
I've never heard "bounced" used in that way.
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[nq:2]When a girl turns down a dude she doesn't want ... more. What is a slang expression for such situation? bounced?[/nq]
[nq:1]Ditched? Chucked? Jilted?[/nq]
There are probably any number of terms for this, depending on what era you choose no doubt Virginia Woolf would say one thing, Jane Austen another, and Britney Spears something else again. I th

[nq:1]When a girl turns down a dude she doesn't want to go out with him anymore. What is a slang expression for such situation? bounced? Regards, apprentice[/nq]
"Dumped" would be the most widely used expression, at least in the UK.
BTW, only teenage surfers (or wannabees) say "dude" these days.

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Gorillaz Song " Clint Eastwood" ..check lyrics...".chicks and dudes" apprentice

[nq:2]more. "Dumped" would be the most widely used expression, at least in the UK. BTW, only teenage surfers (or wannabees) say "dude" these days.[/nq]
[nq:1]Gorillaz Song " Clint Eastwood" ..check lyrics...".chicks and dudes"[/nq]
So?
It's still so yesterday or even day-before-yesterday, as they say!

Non-natives, and even natives that don't belong to a particular scene or mil

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[nq:2]more. "Dumped" would be the most widely used expression, at least in the UK. BTW, only teenage surfers (or wannabees) say "dude" these days.[/nq]
However thank you for this comment. So what is the widely spread expression instead of "mates, dudes, guys"?

[nq:2]BTW, only teenage surfers (or wannabees) say "dude" these days.[/nq]
[nq:1]Gorillaz Song " Clint Eastwood" ..check lyrics...".chicks and dudes"[/nq]
It doesn't mean that it is current or cool. Being fairly familiar with Damon Albarn's lyrics, his tongue was probably firmly in his cheek.

[nq:1]However thank you for this comment. So what is the widely spread expression instead of "mates, dudes, guys"?[/nq]
In the context of a relationship with a girl, it would be "guy" or "fella" (slang for "fellow", which isn't used much in its original form). "Mates" would be used in the context of men's friendships with each other.

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[nq:2]Gorillaz Song " Clint Eastwood" ..check lyrics...".chicks and dudes"[/nq]
[nq:1]It doesn't mean that it is current or cool. Being fairly familiar with Damon Albarn's lyrics, his tongue was probably firmly in his cheek.[/nq]
Thanks for your reply,
as you are the native speaker I take your words as granted. Regards,

[nq:2]It doesn't mean that it is current or cool. Being fairly familiar with Damon Albarn's lyrics, his tongue was probably firmly in his cheek.[/nq]
[nq:1]Thanks for your reply, as you are the native speaker I take your words as granted. Regards, apprentice warsaw, poland[/nq]
Perhaps you might warn your students that American modes of expression, whilst generally understood in Britain, a