Agreed, deal, okay — 'bet' — the one-syllable yes of the late 2010s, from AAVE into universal use, and the word teenagers say to parents when they mean 'fine' and want it to sound like a choice.
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Still alive: overheard Bet used between two teenagers on a bus, neither of them explaining it to the other. That is the whole test and it passed.
For whoever reads this in ten years: Bet arrived in 2017 and for about a month it was the only correct response to anything. Then it became a response to itself.
The record notes 'bet' is now used by people who do not know it once meant a wager. It means 'yes' with a small nod. That is a complete life for a word.
What does it mean? Write it the way you would say it out loud.
