Hiro Says

He Says:
yabai（やばい）=big trouble,shoot,

In the TV show,Heroes,the popular Japanese character Hiro uses "yabai!" many times. When we get in a trouble,we say the word. Since he uses this word many times, it's like he lives in big trouble life everyday. haha.

I remember in the movie "Back to the future",the main character Marty used to said like "This is heavy." It means almost the same. So This is yabai.

And yabai is used mostly by young people.Elderly don't say yabai.

This word isn't so much dirty,but young japanese uses in so many times,even not so big trouble, like "Yabai!I want to rent a porn video,but the clerk is girl!" etc.

A cool way is also to use this word in the daily life of not so big trouble.

Variation:

chou yabai!=super big trouble

maji yabai!=really big trouble

yabe!=shoot!