I didn't and don't know Russian and never even thought to try to look up anything like that.

The setting is a fictious future time and place. It's supposed to have words and other things that are different from your normal life.

I just assumed droogs and everything else were just made-up words and got their obvious meanings from context.

It's definitely not a neutral thing that a kid thinks that they way to deal with this is to see if chatgpt can translate it for them.

There will always be those people though so I don't know if it's an alarming facet of a whole population, or just the depressing but mundane fact that that has really always been most people. Still a bad thing, just maybe not a new or abnormal thing.

Or neither. Maybe it's not most people all along but it's certainly some percentage of people all along, and maybe that kid was just one of them that always has and always will exist, and nothing remarkable about it.