Learn English l American English Slang Words and Meanings - with Subtitles

To be down for. Do you want to talk about  what that means? To be down for. Are you  

down for talking about this phrase? I'm totally  down for it. Alright guys, it looks like we're  

gonna transition into English slang part two.  So, I’m going to talk about three more phrases.  

And while I do so you guys, I’m so happy to again,  so glad to see so many people commenting. So,  

while I am talking if you have any questions  you want to ask me about the slang words or  

just want to comment anything like that please go  ahead and do that. Alright let's talk about three  

more slang words so far, we've talked about chill  legit and shady so let's talk about three more.  

Alright, so here we have “to be down for,” this  is a verb that means I am willing to do something,  

or I want to do something. So, let's take a look  at a couple sentences that I will share with you.  

So for example, let's say I’m hanging out with  my friend and we're both very hungry I might say:  

what kind of food would you be down for? This is  the same as asking: what kind of food do you want  

to eat? What kind of food would you be down  for? Oh, I would be down for Indian food or  

oh there's a really good Pakistani restaurant we  should go to. Oh yeah let's go there. I’m down for  

that. So, we can use it in a question: What are  you down for? Means: what would you like to do?  

So that's the first way we can use in a question.  I might also use it as an answer. So, if someone  

says: hey wanna go see a movie tonight? I might  just simply say: yeah, I’m down. I am down,  

it doesn't mean I’m down. It means: yes,  I want to do that. So here to be down for  

means, willing to do something. Want to do  something and we can ask in a question like:  

Are you down for going out tonight? Or we could  use it in just a response: Yeah, I’m down.  

So there's another interesting thing about this:  to be down for is very similar to “to be up for.”  

So, it's this very similar but one different  word to be up for something is to have the  

energy to do something. So, it also means that  you are willing to do it and you want to do it,  

but usually we use this to mean: do you have  the energy to do something? Are you up for it?  

Do you want to do it? Do you feel like you are in  the mood? You have the energy; you want to do it.  

So, maybe I had a very long day at  work and my friend asks: oh, hey  

do you want to go out tonight? I might say I don't  feel up for it, or I’m not up for it. This means  

I’m too tired I’m not up for it. Another way I  might use it, oh we're still on to be up for.  

Another way I might use it  is by saying something like,  

again maybe asking a question or trying  to see if my friend wants to do something:  

oh, hey we're going out to eat  tonight if you're up for it. So here,  

to be down for something means yeah, I want to  do it. And to be up for something means like,  

do you have the energy? Right, we can think of as  like: do you have the energy? Are you up for it?  

Alright, next let's talk about the word bail.  So, bail usually means the money you have to pay  

to get out of jail. I hope none of you ever  have to, no one ever has to worry about bail,  

but here bail as a slang word  means: to leave, to cancel,  

or to we would say back out on  something. So, for example, I might say:  

oh, I was hanging out with john last night, but  he bailed because he wasn't feeling well. So,  

this means for example, this means that we were  hanging out he wasn't feeling good, so he left.  

So, I might say he bailed. This means he left.  He went home. I might say something like: oh,  

I’m hanging out with my friends sorry I gotta bail  my class starts soon. I have to go to class sorry  

guys. I have to bail. I have to leave. So, here  bail means leave or go away. Stop hanging out.  

Alright, the last slang word today is, zone out.  I hope none of you are zoning out right now.  

To zone out means to lose focus. To daydream or to  not pay attention. So, perhaps you have, I’m sure  

all of us have had a class with a teacher that  just goes, and you sit there and just kind of,  

you're thinking about other things.  You're not really paying attention.  

This means you are zoning out. It just means not  paying attention. Thinking about other things.  

So, for example I might be, I might have,  maybe I missed class and I asked my friend:  

hey what happened in class today? They  might say: I’m not sure i was zoning out.  

I was zoning out; I wasn't paying attention. Or  another, a very common thing we might hear is:  

oh, that speech or that class, oh that was so  boring everyone zoned out, means no one was  

listening. So, here zone is the word we'd modify  for if we want to say past tense. I zoned out.  

Present: I am zoning out or future I  might just zone out in class today.