Want to score some $500 Air Jordans? Learn to talk like a real sneakerhead

Byby Juan Carlos Guerrero KGO logo
Saturday, February 24, 2018
Learn to talk like a sneakerhead
Sneakerheads have their own language to talk about their sneaker collections. One YouTube sneakerhead from San Jose teaches us some of the jargon.

SAN JOSE, Calif. (KGO) -- A vocabulary quiz.



What's fugazi?



How about bred?



Hypebeast?



These is slang used by sneakerheads, people who collect and admire sneakers.



YouTuber Alex Walter, known as @SneakerHeadInTheBay, tells us what these and other sneakerhead slang terms mean.



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