"E" Slang

encore

Internet

A short additional performance or celebration a group gives right after winning first place on a music show, often emotional and off-the-cuff. A cherished fandom moment.

encroachment

General

A pre-snap foul in which a defensive player crosses the line of scrimmage and makes contact with an opponent before the ball is snapped.

end of year stage

Internet

An elaborate, often collaborative performance idols give at year-end festivals and award ceremonies, frequently featuring covers, remixes, or cross-group units. Highly anticipated each December.

end-to-end

General

Describes a fast, exciting match where play surges from one goal to the other with attacks flowing both ways.

endgame

Internet

The couple confirmed as the final, lasting romantic outcome of a story.

ending fairy

Internet

The member who delivers a cute or striking final close-up pose as a stage ends, captured by the ending camera. A coveted moment for gifs and clips.

ending pose

Internet

The last coordinated stance a group holds as a song ends, designed to leave a strong final image. A signature element of stage choreography.

endo

General

A crash where the front wheel stops abruptly and the rider is pitched forward over the handlebars. The word is a contraction of 'end over end'.

ends

Street

Used to mean someone else's turf or a specific area.

ends up

General

'Coo ya' / 'ku ya' means 'look here' — a call to look or pay attention.

endsville

General

The greatest, the ultimate; something that can't be topped.

endz

British Mle

Your local area or neighbourhood — the streets you're from and know well.

enemies to lovers

Internet

The blueprint trope: two characters genuinely cannot stand each other, trade insults like currency, and end up hopelessly in love. The hatred has to be real for it to land — bickering doesn't count. Pride and Prejudice is the patron saint.

enforcer

Street

An enforcer is a criminal whose job is to intimidate, injure, or kill to collect debts and impose the will of a crime boss.

engage

Gaming

To kick off a teamfight by going in first, ideally locking someone down so your team can pile on. The engage is who pulls the trigger, and a clean one wins the fight before it starts.

engagement farming

Internet

Posting something dumb, wrong, or inflammatory on purpose so the replies pour in. The poster doesn't believe the take, they believe the metrics. Common variants: the obvious-bad-opinion, the ragebait poll, the 'name a better X' trap.

engine

General

A player, usually a central midfielder, with the stamina to run box-to-box all game and link defence to attack.

ent

Internet

A self-identified member of r/trees, Reddit's main cannabis subreddit. Used as a friendly in-group label — 'fellow ent' rather than stoner. Plays on the Tolkien reference and the sub's accidental name.

entourage effect

Street

The idea that THC, CBD, terpenes, and other compounds interact synergistically to shape cannabis's overall effect.

entry fragger

Gaming

First one through the smoke, first to swing the angle. The entry fragger's job is to get the opening kill, or at worst soak the first contact so teammates can trade and flood in.

eod

Internet

Stands for "end of day," used to set or reference a same-day deadline in work contexts.

eom

General

Appended to an email subject line to signal the entire message is contained there.

eow

Internet

Stands for "end of week," referencing a deadline by the close of the workweek.

epic

General

Anything awesome or cool, especially top-class surf or extremely good waves.

epic fail

Internet

A spectacularly bad mistake or failure — one so complete, public, or badly timed that it loops back around to being funny. Used as a standalone reaction to a video, screenshot, or story of something going hilariously wrong.

equities in dallas

General

Salomon Brothers shorthand from the Liar's Poker era for being exiled to a career graveyard. Bonds were where the money and prestige were, equities were second-class, and Dallas was a thousand miles from the Manhattan trading floor. Get assigned Equities in Dallas and you might as well leave finance.

era

Internet

A distinct phase in someone's life, style or mood — often used self-mockingly for a short-lived habit or look.

erc-20

Internet

The token standard for fungible, interchangeable tokens on Ethereum — the format used by most cryptocurrencies and project tokens.

erc-721

Internet

The token standard on Ethereum defining non-fungible tokens, where each token is unique and individually owned; the backbone of most NFTs.

erk

General

An AC2 or AC1 — the lowest rank of aircraftman in the RAF. The bloke who did the grease work, scrubbed the hangars, and humped the bombs. Affectionate-contemptuous in the way only forces slang gets.

errr

General

A short guttural grunt Marines use as a compressed version of 'Oorah' to acknowledge almost anything.

erstas

Street

Oysters, spelled with an 'a' to nail the looser end-vowel some Yats give it. Same shellfish, same accent, slightly different transcription preference.

ersters

Street

Oysters. Spelled the way a real Yat says it — that flat, almost-Brooklyn 'er' standing in for 'oy'. You hear it at po-boy shops, oyster bars, and anywhere uptown your grandma is ordering lunch.

esclop

General

By extension, any figure of authority moving through the market — an inspector, a beadle, a weights-and-measures man — anyone whose arrival meant trouble for unlicensed trade.

ese

Street

Dude, homie, that guy. The all-purpose Chicano term of address between men — can be warm with a friend or pointed with a stranger, all depending on tone.

esh

Internet

Verdict on r/AmItheAsshole declaring that the poster, the other party, and often a few side characters are all assholes in their own special way. Used when a story is a mess of mutual pettiness.

eshay

General

A member of an Australian urban youth subculture known for Nike TN shoes, polos, bum bags and Pig Latin slang; can also mean 'run'.

esketit

Music

Functions as an ad-lib and hype phrase in music and online.

esky

General

A portable insulated container used to keep food and drinks cold, especially at a barbecue or the beach.

esky lid

General

Jocular term for a bodyboard (from its flat foam shape); literally the lid of a cooler.

eso que ni qué

General

Emphatic agreement, like 'no doubt about it' or 'that's for sure'.

esqueleto rumbero

General

A humorous way to call someone very thin — a 'partying skeleton'.

esquimalito

General

Dominican slang for a frozen ice or popsicle treat, often homemade and sold in a bag.

ess'ole

General

The ash pit beneath an old coal-fire grate. By extension, the fireplace itself. Common in the back-to-backs of industrial Birmingham and the Black Country, where everyone had a coal range and someone had to rake the ess'ole out every morning.

está volao

General

Said of something incredible, amazing, or over the top. Also 'está volado'.

estar cañón

General

Describes something difficult or intense, and by extension something impressively hard-core.

estrenar

General

To use or wear something for the very first time.

eta

Internet

Notation, usually "ETA:" at the bottom of a post or comment, marking text added after the original publish — typically responding to early replies without rewriting the whole thing.