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dated

Date: Mar 02 2005

Quote

1. Quote - Listen to the quote and guess what the slang means.

“I don’t think I ever write songs involving politics, because they get dated way too quick.”
-Modest Mouse’s Isaac Brock, in an interview with Josh Modell writing for The Onion.

Definition

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when something is dated, you can tell from which year, decade or time period it comes; dated usually means out of style

2. Use - Learn how the slang is used.

Life changes so quickly. New products and ideas are there every day. In this modern world, it’s important not to get too stuck on a particular style or you will soon be dated.
This is true with fashions, hairstyles, music, décor for your home, as well as other things.
Normally people keep a little of the old and move on with the new. But sometimes you meet people who look like they stepped straight out of the eighties or the nineties. They have dated themselves with their hairstyle or fashion sense.
People also date themselves with knowledge about pop culture. If all the movies I talk about are from 1985, there is a good chance I will date myself by talking about them.

Examples

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“I don’t mean to date myself, but I really liked Abba when they first came out.”

””I don’t mean to date myself, but I really liked Abba when they first came out.”
“My mom dates herself all the time by talking about how a woman should take care of her husband. I keep telling her that things have changed but she never listens.”
“I am afraid that my hairstyle is dating me. People know that I grew up in the nineties because I still wear my bangs really high.”
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“My mom dates herself all the time by talking about how a woman should take care of her husband. I keep telling her that things have changed but she never listens.”

“I am afraid that my hairstyle is dating me. People know that I grew up in the nineties because I still wear my bangs really high.”

Winners

1. Winners - See who guessed the slang definition correctly.

It means that they can expire with time.
by ana (Monterrey, me)
something gets dated when becomes old,when it doesn’t tally anymore with the
present, the facts and the common interestes and tastes.
by valeria (Tempio, Italia)
Loses its appeal, becomes obsolete.
by Iqbal (Dhaka, Bangladesh)
It means that they fad away too fast and people lose interest about them quickly.
by paola (pasto, colombia)
Something it is old fashioned.
by rose (wuhan, China)
I guess it means “off trend”
by Fin (Taipei, Taiwan)
I guess it means demoded and obsolete…
by hugo (guangzhou, china)
It means out of the day or old-fashioned.
by Annawong (Zhengzhou, China)
old-fashioned,out dated.
by Cynthia (Beijing, China)
It probably means something has become old-fashioned and is not popular any more.
by Shirley (hangzhou, China)
“dated” means old and out of fashion.
things getting dated are not going to be interesting for a long period.
by mehran (Tehran, Iran)
it means expired and something that people lose their interest on it after a while
by amir (mashhad, iran)
Old-fashioned; out-of-date.
by Yu (NanChang, China)
out of fashion,out of date,out of date.
by caralyn (shanghai, china)
when something is dated it is indicated that this is rather the fact or style of the
past than of the present.
by mamie (Wroclaw, Poland)
“dated”,I think it means out-of-dated or old fashinoned
by Jack (Xi’an, China)
old fashion
by kudretsiz (Konya, Turkiye)
get out of date
by Elsa (Beijing, China)
dated here means something gets out of the date.
by Sunny (Guangzhou, China)
I think “dated“means out of date
by Michelle (Wide goose, China)
I think it means”out of date”,that is ,it cannot get the fashion.
by patty (baotou, china)
I think “dated” means it is not fashion.
by cynthia (beijing, china)
Dated means old-fashioned,out-of-date,very old and etc.
by Emily (Qinhuangdao, China)
‘dated’ here means unfashionable, becoming old, not popular.
by luxy (BJ, China)
Dated in that sentence means that the song becomes old too quickly.
by sally (brownsville, U.S.A.)
dated means old, out of fashion or out of date.
by Janiffer (Shanghai, China)
Out_dated_, because the world of current events is just that-”current”!
by Urvi (GURGAON, INDIA)
it means getting “out” or old,not “in” any more.
by lisa (dalian, china)
I suppose “dated” is unfashionable, out of date.
by boling (shenzhen, china)
Means that things that slip out from the mind of people in a short period of time.
by Michael (Tainan, Taiwan)
it means out of date
by grace (wuxi, china)
I think “dated” means sth is unpopular
by zhou (hangzhou, china)
It means that something becomes out of fashion or old.
by rahul (saskatoon, Canada)
dated can be behind the times or out of the season since things up_dated_ very fast.
by vera (qingdao, china)
dated usually means a period of time \or limited time \or deadline. In this sentence
it means be refused or be voted down.
by chin (hangzhou, China)
“dated” here means:behind the times
by li (dalian, china)
“Dated“here means out of date.
by panda (Guangzhou, China)
Something that goes out of context in short time.
by Arjun (Atlanta, USA)
I think dated in adj mean old-fashioned . such as the Cars in 1960s they are dated !!
by Allal (Montreal, Canada)
seem old-fashioned; out-of-date.
by heeja (Seoul, Korea)
Out of time. Behind the timesã€‚Out_dated_
by Haifeng (Utrecht, Netherlands)