"A" Slang

andwae

Internet

An exclamation meaning 'no way' or a plea of 'don't,' expressing dismay or refusal. Common in dramatic idol and drama moments.

anent

General

About or concerning; regarding a matter. Now chiefly formal/legal in Scots.

angels

General

Pilot-speak for altitude measured in thousands of feet. 'Angels one-five' means 15,000 feet. RAF brevity code from WWII that NATO air forces still use on the radio because it's short, clear, and hard to mishear over a noisy frequency.

angin

General

Properly grim. Used for food gone off, weather gone south, anyone looking rough on a Sunday morning. Range goes from mild ick to full revulsion depending on delivery.

angler

General

Also called a 'curber'; the hooked staff itself was the 'curb' or 'angle'.

angst

Internet

Fan fiction saturated with characters' fear, sadness, anxiety, or torment, often the opposite of fluff.

animanga

Internet

A blended term covering anime and manga collectively, handy when a point applies to both.

anime

Internet

Animation produced in Japan (or in its style), the central fandom of anime conventions and a primary source of cosplay characters.

animegao

Internet

A style of kigurumi cosplay where the performer wears a full mask and bodysuit to reproduce an anime character's stylized face and features as literally as possible; practitioners are often called dollers.

aniparo

Internet

Parodic fan works — comics or skits — that lampoon or reimagine established anime characters, a common form of doujinshi humour.

ankle breaker

Gaming

A particularly effective crossover dribble that makes the defender stumble, lose balance, or hit the floor, as if their ankles were broken.

annyeonghaseyo

Internet

A polite greeting meaning 'hello', often the first Korean phrase fans learn and idols use to greet fans.

anon

Internet

A pseudonymous crypto user — typically posting under a cartoon PFP and a handle with no real name attached. Used both as a noun ('that anon called the top') and as a friendly direct address ('gm anon'). Carries no negative weight in Web3; anonymity is the default, doxxing yourself is the unusual move.

another one bites the dust

General

The song whose beat (~100–110 bpm) matches the recommended rate for chest compressions, invoked with dark humour during CPR training.

ansome

General

A Cornish word from 'handsome', used to mean lovely, and as a greeting 'me ansome'.

anti

Internet

An anti-fan — someone who doesn't just dislike an idol or group, but follows them closely enough to drag them daily. Short for 'anti-fan,' a concept that's been baked into K-pop culture since the early 2000s and occasionally crosses into genuinely dangerous behaviour.

anti-air

Gaming

An attack you throw out from the ground to knock someone clean out of their jump-in. React to the jump, hit the button, watch them fall. Every solid player has a reliable one.

anti-climax

General

A disappointing, flat ending or outcome that fails to live up to the excitement and expectation that preceded it.

anti-eco

Gaming

When the enemy is on an eco, they've got pistols and SMGs that shred up close but fold at range. An anti-eco setup means you hold back, play long angles, and refuse to feed them your rifle. Die to a P250 and you just handed them your weapon and their economy back.

anti-fan

Internet

Someone who actively dislikes an idol or group and expresses it through criticism, harassment, or hostile campaigns. A staple negative figure in fandom culture.

anti-flash

Gaming

A flash hurts most when it pops in your face. Hear it coming, snap your view to a wall or the floor, and you only catch a fraction of the blind. The flash you anti-flash is a flash wasted.

anti-football

General

A derogatory term for an ultra-negative, sometimes violent or time-wasting style seen as against the spirit of the game.

anti-hustle

General

Describing attitudes, lifestyles, or movements that reject hustle culture's glorification of overwork in favor of rest, balance, and sustainable effort.

anti-seize

General

A metallic-particle lubricant (usually copper, nickel, or aluminium-based) smeared on bolt threads, spark plugs, exhaust studs — anywhere heat, corrosion, or galling would otherwise weld the fastener in place. Stops the bolt from seizing so you can actually get it out a year later. The grey-silver smear that ends up on every mechanic's hands.

antiwork

General

An online movement and mindset critical of exploitative labor conditions, hustle culture, and the centrality of work to identity, advocating for better pay, conditions, and boundaries.

antwacky

General

Old-fashioned, dated, or hopelessly out of style. A corruption of 'antique' filtered through a Scouse mouth. Used for clothes, furniture, slang, attitudes — anything that feels like it belongs in 1974. Affectionate when said of your nan's living room, brutal when said of someone's outfit.

anxious attachment

Internet

An attachment style marked by craving closeness, fearing abandonment, and needing frequent reassurance.

any%

Gaming

The purest speedrun category. Reach the credits any way you can. Skip items, skip levels, abuse whatever the game lets you. Only the clock matters.

aon

General

An order condition: execute the full quantity in one go or leave it sitting. No partial fills allowed. Useful when a half-fill would mess up your hedge or your strategy, brutal when liquidity is thin and the order just never trades.

apapachar

General

To cuddle, spoil, or comfort someone lovingly.

ape

Internet

To buy a token, NFT, or stock impulsively — usually a large amount, usually without research, usually because the chart is going up or your timeline is hyped. 'Ape in' is the full phrase. Carries a self-aware acknowledgement that this is dumb behaviour, which is part of the appeal.

ape in

Internet

To pile into a coin or NFT quickly and with little or no due diligence, driven by hype, a chart, or a tweet. Often shortened to 'ape' or used as 'aped in'.

aped

Internet

To have already invested heavily and impulsively into a coin or NFT without much research.

apero

General

A Dominican way to say something is cool, great, or nifty; in the same family as chévere and jevi.

apes

Internet

Self-applied badge for retail traders — especially the GameStop and AMC crowd — who buy and hold a stock collectively to squeeze hedge funds. The lore: 'apes together strong,' borrowed from Planet of the Apes. Wearing the label is a flex of solidarity and a wink at the meme that they're too dumb to sell.

apes together strong

Internet

A solidarity slogan urging retail investors to hold their positions collectively rather than capitulate, on the belief that unity gives them market-moving power.

aping

Gaming

All-out aggression. You smash straight into a fight with no patience, no setup, just primal pressure. Sometimes it shatters them, sometimes it gets you wiped. High risk, high tempo.

aping in

Internet

The act of pouring money into a new coin or NFT project impulsively and without research, often following the crowd.

apples and pears

General

Trotted out as the go-to example whenever someone explains what Cockney rhyming slang actually is.

applesauce

General

A mild, almost cute substitute for a harsher curse of disbelief.

appy

General

Hospital shorthand for appendicitis — the patient in bay 4 doubled over with right-side pain. Most often used as a quick label: 'we've got an appy in A&E'.

après

General

The relaxed socializing, food, and drinks enjoyed after a day on the mountain, short for 'après-ski'. It is as much a part of the culture as the riding itself.

aproko

Street

Describes someone who is overly curious about other people's affairs and spreads what they find out — a classic Nigerian gossip.

apy

Internet

Annual Percentage Yield expresses the yearly return on a deposit or farm accounting for compounding, commonly advertised on DeFi products.

ar

General

An affirmative meaning 'yes', used across the Black Country and Birmingham.

arbitrary code execution

Gaming

The deepest end of glitch hunting. You manipulate memory until the game treats your data as executable instructions, then you basically control the console. Can warp to credits, rewrite game state, whatever you can program in.

arc

Internet

An early copy of a book — physical or digital (eARC) — sent out by publishers before release so reviewers, booksellers and bookfluencers can hype it. Scoring one is a flex; the unspoken deal is you post about it.

area boy

Street

Describes a rough, streetwise young man from a particular neighborhood, often associated with loitering, petty hustling, or extorting small money from passersby or drivers.