UCLA professor of linguistics Pamela Munro has put together with her students the newest edition of “U.C.L.A. Slang 6″ with more than a 1,000 entries of popular slang words and phrases in current use.
Referring to slang, Munro says:
“Slang seems to originate on the West Coast and move east because of Hollywood and the recording industry,” said Munro, a noted authority on dictionary creation. “So ‘U.C.L.A. Slang’ tends to be a harbinger of slang that already is — or soon will be — spoken across the country.” Source
So Obama is used as an adjective meaning “cool or rad”.
Bromance is an expression of brotherly platonic love.
And recently in London I heard: “brothers from another mother” (from a Kuwaiti) which is also mentioned in the UCLA article: Schwa! Popular slang marks 20th anniversary at UCLA
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