"D" Slang

dukes

General

A person's fists, especially when raised to fight.

dullsville

General

Used as a flat verdict on anything tedious.

dumber than a bag of hammers

General

A blunt way of calling someone remarkably unintelligent.

dummy

General

A deception where a player shapes to receive or play the ball but instead lets it run past, wrong-footing the defence.

dump

Street

To fire a gun, usually unloading multiple rounds. 'Dumping' is volume — you're not aiming carefully, you're tipping the whole magazine in someone's direction.

dump it

Internet

An exclamation to sell and crash a price, from the Bogdanoff meme in which shadowy figures command markets to "dump it."

dump truck

General

An admiring slang term for a large, muscular, shapely posterior, usually built through heavy glute training.

dun

General

A friend, homie, or 'son'; used to address someone you're close with. Strongly associated with Queens.

dun know

Street

A standalone affirmation dropped at the end of a statement for emphasis.

duncan goodhew

General

A clue. Almost always used in the negative — you haven't got a Duncan Goodhew. Nice late addition to the rhyming canon, proof Cockney never stopped generating.

dunch

General

To bump into or collide with something; also 'dunsh'.

dunderheid

General

A stupid or dull-witted person; a blockhead.

dungarees

General

Denim trousers. An older word for jeans that persisted in New England speech.

dungeon

General

In kink, a dungeon is a space — a room, a venue, sometimes a whole basement build — outfitted with BDSM equipment: St. Andrew's crosses, suspension points, spanking benches, cages, the works. It's where play happens. Can be a commercial club, a section of a play party venue, or someone's lovingly kitted-out home setup. The medieval name is half-ironic, half-accurate: it's a purpose-built space for play, not a torture pit.

dungeon monitor

General

A dungeon monitor (DM) is the designated safety watcher at a BDSM event. While on duty their authority is effectively absolute: they patrol the space, make sure everything stays consensual and safe, and step in if something breaches house rules or looks non-consensual. Good DMs are experienced players with safety and first-aid training, and they typically don't play themselves while monitoring — the point is to stay an objective set of eyes. At private parties the host often takes the role; clubs assign trained volunteers or staff.

dunking

Internet

Publicly mocking a stupid or wrong tweet by quote-tweeting it with a one-liner that gets all the engagement. The original poster becomes the prop; you become the timeline's main character for ten minutes.

dunks

General

Boston's pet name for Dunkin' Donuts (now just Dunkin'). Functions as both the drink and the place. You don't 'grab a coffee' in Boston — you run to Dunks. There's one on every corner and the locals treat it less like fast food and more like a public utility.

dunny

General

A toilet, traditionally an outdoor privy or outhouse.

dunny diver

General

Aussie tradie slang for a plumber. Sits alongside chippy (carpenter), sparky (electrician) and brickie (bricklayer) in the standard tradesman lineup. Almost always jokey — plumbers wear it as a badge, not a slur.

dunop

General

In coded patter, 'dunop' let a trader signal a big-money customer or deal to a partner without the punter realising the stakes.

duns

General

Money. Also 'dunsa'. One of many Patois words for cash.

dunt

General

A knock, bump or blow; as a verb, to bump against.

dupe

Internet

A clearly-not-the-original product that mimics a pricey item closely enough to scratch the same itch. Lululemon leggings for £15 at Aldi, a Sol de Janeiro mist from The Ordinary, a Dyson hairdryer from Shark. TikTok built an entire genre around hunting them.

duppy

Street

A ghost, spirit or the returning soul of a dead person; a major figure in Jamaican folklore. Bob Marley's 'Duppy Conqueror' references it.

dura

General

Said of a woman who is attractive, confident, and impressive — 'she's all that'. 'Duro' works for a man who's the best.

durn

General

A softened stand-in for "damn," as in "durn fool."

duss

General

To run, flee, leg it. Used when you need to make a quick exit — usually because something's gone wrong. The roadman equivalent of 'leg it' or 'bounce'.

dust

Gaming

Dota's Dust of Appearance. Use it and any invisible enemy nearby gets revealed and slowed, so they can't just vanish and walk away from your gank. The cheap counter to invis heroes when you've no sentry handy.

dust on crust

General

A disappointing surface where only a thin dusting of fresh snow lies over a hard, frozen base, so it looks soft but rides hard. Riders bemoan a dust-on-crust day.

dust-off

General

A medevac by helicopter, especially of battlefield casualties.

dustbin lid

General

A child. Used affectionately for your own or generally for the local horde tearing round the estate.

dustbin lids

General

Used generally for any gaggle of youngsters underfoot.

dutch

Street

A blunt made using a Dutch Master (or 'Dutchie') cigarillo wrap.

dutch auction

Internet

A sale mechanism where an NFT's price begins high and decreases at intervals until it's bought or hits a floor, used to price-discover mints and reduce gas wars.

dutchie

General

Dutch Gold lager — the cheapest yellow can in the off-licence and a fixture of every Irish house party, field session and last-bus-home. To get Dutchies in is to commit to the night being messy.

dutchy

General

A large, heavy cast-iron cooking pot; famous from Musical Youth's 'Pass the Dutchie'.

dutty

Street

Dirty or filthy, whether literally or figuratively (as in nasty behaviour). Also used in dancehall as a stylized term.

duvet

General

A soft flat bag filled with down or synthetic fill, used as a top bed cover.

dux

General

The best scholar in a school or class, often awarded a 'dux medal'.

dw

Internet

Short for 'don't worry.' Reassures someone that there's no problem or no need to stress.

dwam

General

A dreamy, absent-minded state; 'in a dwam' means miles away.

dweeb

Pop

Used affectionately between friends as light teasing.

dweet

General

To 'do it' — a contraction commonly used as encouragement or agreement.

dwt

General

A Welsh term of endearment for something small and adorable, the Welsh cousin of the Scottish 'wee'. Often 'a little dwt'.

dy-no-mite

Music

An exclamation of pure approval — something is excellent, exciting, or knocked it out the park.

dyel

Internet

Initialism for 'do you even lift.' As an adjective it labels someone or something as looking like they don't train (a 'DYEL physique').

dying on the pass

General

What happens when the kitchen plates faster than the floor can run. Steaks rest into well-done, sauces skin over, garnishes go limp, the chef's blood pressure climbs. Every second on the pass is a second the customer isn't eating it the way it was meant to be eaten. Expo's nightmare.

dying quail

General

A softly hit fly ball that drops suddenly just beyond the infielders for a bloop single, like a shot bird falling from the sky.