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

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.
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Byby Juan Carlos GuerreroKGO logo
Saturday, February 24, 2018

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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