Only ’80s Kids Can Ace This Totally Tubular Slang Quiz

Instead of saying “big deal,” people in the 80s said this.

Retry Correct Incorrect When someone was expressing their dismissiveness in the early 20th century, they would often utter “big deal.” That phrase was replaced with “big whoop” in the 1980s, which was used to attract attention, as a summons, or to express “derision, defiance, support, or encouragement.”

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Instead of saying “big deal,” people in the 80s said this.

• big whoop
• big bird
• big cheese
• big loss