Master a roadman’s vocabulary and your teenager might be easier to understand… | Vanessa Thorpe | From the Observer | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/commentisfree/2018/jul/08/may-i-have-a-word-roadman-street-teen-speak
When a “roadman” (a streetwise young person) out for a stroll trips over a kerb and temporarily loses his composure, possibly dropping his iPhone, you might hear his companion cry out: “Oh. Peak for you!”
To those over 30, it sounds a strange reaction. The “peak” of what, exactly? Embarrassment? In fact, these days this is a heartfelt commiseration, as readers familiar with current street slang will have recognised. For “peak” now means bad and, specifically, a “random” bit of bad luck, and any roadman, or rebellious teenager (are there other kinds?), understands this. Just like the word “sick”, which switched from meaning ill to something extremely good some while ago, “peak” has changed sides.