A-Y-N/iStock via Getty Images Plus In Dazed and Confused, one of the truly great works of art of the 1990s, the intellectual Cynthia puts forward the “every other decade theory”: “The '50s were boring. The '60s rocked. The '70s, my God, they obviously suck,” she says. “So maybe the '80s will be, like, radical.” Theywere! But by this theory, the '90s were not. As if! The '90s were da bomb—a decade of great music, spectacular TV, and artful language use. Just look at the following 15 bits of slang popular in the '90s that were all that (and a bag of chips).