"G" Slang

got served

General

Being outperformed or out-lifted by someone, especially right after boasting about your own strength.

got your ears on?

General

Classic CB opener. 'Ears' = the radio, so 'got your ears on?' is asking whether anyone's actually tuned in and listening to the channel. The conversational equivalent of knocking before you walk in. If someone answers, you've got a chat partner for the next stretch of interstate.

gotan

General

Tango, the music and dance. The source is the word 'tango' run through vesre (syllable reversal): tan-go becomes go-tan.

gotham

General

A literary nickname for NYC, later cemented by Batman comics. Evokes the city's grand, gritty character.

gouda

Internet

Slang for money coined as wordplay on the cheese-for-money tradition, using the Dutch cheese variety.

goudere

Internet

A love-interest archetype who relentlessly and single-mindedly pursues fulfilling the object of their affection's desires, often to comedic or misunderstood extremes.

gouge

General

The straight dope. Insider knowledge that saves you from learning the hard way — what questions are on the test, what the inspecting officer actually checks for, which chief to avoid on a Monday. Good gouge is currency.

gov

Street

Short for 'governor'. Used to address a prison officer or senior member of staff, often to curry a small favour.

government juice

General

A humorous Bajan term for plain tap water, supplied by the government waterworks.

govoreet

General

In Nadsat, to govoreet is to speak or talk. Source word: Russian 'govorit' (говорить), 'to speak'.

gowk

General

A fool, a simpleton, someone gormless. Old word, still understood in Geordie and Scots country.

gowpin

General

Throbbing painfully. A 'gowpin' heid is a pounding headache.

gozzy

General

Chiefly describes someone cross-eyed or with a squint in Scouse usage.

gpo

General

Brutal trauma-bay acronym for a patient whose neurological prognosis is hopeless but whose organs are intact and transplant-viable. Sits in the same dark register as 'donorcycle' — staff use it to compartmentalise rather than to be cruel.

gpose

Gaming

The screenshot studio. You pause the scene, pose your character, tweak lighting, filters and camera angle, then capture it. The backbone of FFXIV's huge fashion and photography scene.

gr8

Internet

A numeronym for "great," using 8 for its sound. Expresses approval.

grab

General

Any trick in which the rider uses a hand to grab a part of the deck while in the air, common on vert, transition, and off ramps. Different grab positions have their own names.

grabowski

General

A hard-working, blue-collar, unglamorous type; the everyman fan or laborer.

grachki

General

The phrase 'garage key' compressed by the thick Chicago accent into a single word.

graduation

Internet

When a token launched on a bonding-curve platform (like pump.fun) accumulates enough buys to 'graduate' — its liquidity migrates to a decentralised exchange for open trading.

grady baby

Street

Anyone born at Grady Memorial Hospital, Atlanta's huge public hospital downtown. It's the city's badge of native-ness — you can move to Atlanta, but you can't be born there retroactively. Worn with pride.

graft

General

Hard work. The honest, knackering kind — not faffing, not skiving, actual graft. A 'grafter' is the highest compliment you can give a workmate up North.

grail

Pop

A highly coveted, prized NFT — a collector's holy grail — usually rare, iconic, or personally meaningful and rarely for sale.

gralloch

General

The viscera of a deer; as a verb, to disembowel a shot deer.

grand

General

Genuinely good or well, when answering how you are.

grand prize / grand march

General

The grand prize is the big one. The top trophy and cash at a ball, the win every house is chasing across the night's categories. Take enough categories, dominate enough, and you walk out with the grand prize and the bragging rights that come with it. New houses historically needed grand prizes to even be taken seriously.

grand slam

General

A home run hit while all three bases are occupied, scoring four runs, the most possible on a single play.

grandfather

General

To exempt existing users or cases from a new rule, letting them continue under the old one.

granny shot

General

A free throw shot underhanded, with both hands scooping the ball upward.

granola

Internet

Describes a person or lifestyle that's environmentally aware, outdoorsy, and into natural, wholesome living — think hiking, reusable everything, and crunchy health habits.

granular

General

Describing analysis or information broken down to a fine level of detail.

grass

Street

Slang for a police informer, derived from Cockney rhyming slang 'grasshopper' = copper.

grass up

Street

To report or betray another person to the authorities.

grasshopper

Street

Cockney rhyming slang for a copper (police officer); the clipped 'grass' came to mean an informer.

grav

Street

A casual clipping of 'gravity bong', the water-and-pressure device that delivers a large, dense hit.

gravalicious

General

Insatiably greedy, covetous and avaricious.

gravity bong

Street

A homemade or manufactured device that uses water displacement and gravity to pull a large volume of smoke into a chamber.

gravy

Internet

Slang for money gained easily, or pure profit on top of what you need.

gravy day

General

21 December, celebrated as an unofficial holiday referencing the date in Paul Kelly's Christmas song 'How to Make Gravy'. Macquarie 2023 shortlist.

grazing

Gaming

Dancing on the edge. In a lot of bullet-hell games your hitbox is tiny, so you can let bullets pass within a hair of you, and the game rewards it. Each near-miss feeds your score or meter. The closer you graze, the bigger the payoff, and the more terrifying it looks.

grease

Street

To 'grease' someone (or 'grease a palm') is to bribe them, smoothing the way for illicit business.

greaser

General

A member of the 1950s working-class youth subculture defined by greased-back hair, leather or denim jackets, motorcycles or hot rods, and rock-n-roll.

great mistakes

General

A wry name for Naval Station Great Lakes, the Navy's recruit training center.

greaze

Street

Aggro or trouble; 'on greaze' means acting aggressively.

greazy

Street

Describes aggressive or hard behaviour; in drill it can be a term of praise for a hard verse.

green

Gaming

A perfectly timed shot release; from the video game NBA 2K where an ideal release flashes green.

green flag

Internet

Used online to highlight admirable behavior or qualities in videos, posts, or public figures.

green light

General

A coach's blessing for a player to take shots whenever they want without worrying about shot selection.