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Heckerling Pulled Words From a Slang Dictionary

Between "as if" and "totally buggin'," the teen talk in Clueless is legendary. Not only did Heckerling infamously sit in high school classes in Beverly Hills, but she also read a slang dictionary (before the days of Urban Dictionary) to spice up the teen vernacular in the movie. In a chat with Interview, the director noted, "I read one slang dictionary . . . this was before you could find anything online. I think that had the Baldwins and the Monets. An actor came in and said 'aggro,' and he said, 'Can I say 'postal?' I went, 'Sure.' It seemed like such a great descriptive word."

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