"L" Slang

laser flip

General

An advanced flip trick combining a 360 frontside shove-it with a heelflip, essentially the heelflip counterpart to a treflip.

lasered

Gaming

You step out, an AR or SMG spray catches you clean, and you're down before you can react. Fast, accurate, no counterplay — you got lasered.

lash

General

To strike forcefully, or colloquially to 'lash a drink' / 'lash some food' (consume with gusto).

lash lift

Pop

Used as the low-maintenance alternative in the lash conversation versus extensions.

lashing

General

Raining heavily. Standard Irish weather report. Often paired with 'down' or 'out of the heavens' for emphasis. Not a drizzle, not a shower — proper sideways, soak-you-in-thirty-seconds rain.

lashins

General

A large amount, plenty; usually of food or drink.

lass

General

A woman or young girl. 'The lass' can also mean one's girlfriend or wife.

lassie

General

A girl or young woman; 'lass' is the shorter form.

last hit

Gaming

In MOBAs you only get a creep's gold if you deal the final blow. So you don't just spray - you wait, time the hit, and snatch the kill at the right moment. Clean last hitting is the most basic skill that separates good players from feeders.

lateral

General

A toss of the ball to a teammate who is even with or behind the passer; unlike a forward pass, it can happen anywhere and multiple times.

latrine queen

General

A basic-training trainee given responsibility for the cleanliness of the latrines.

lats

General

Slang for the latissimus dorsi, the large back muscles that create width and power pulling movements.

lattie

General

In Polari, a house, flat, lodging or room. Likely from Italian 'letto' (bed) or 'latta', reflecting the cant's Romance borrowings.

launch

General

Any ramp or kicker used to send a rider up and off into the air. A launch ramp has no matching landing, so the rider comes back down to flat or another feature.

lavender menace

General

Started as an insult and got worn as a badge. The phrase is tied to Betty Friedan, who saw lesbians as a 'lavender menace' that would discredit second-wave feminism. So in 1970 a group of lesbian radical feminists stormed the Second Congress to Unite Women in tie-dyed lavender tees reading exactly that, handed out the manifesto 'The Woman-Identified Woman,' and took the stage. They reclaimed the slur on the spot. Now it reads as a founding moment of lesbian feminism, not a smear.

lay some iron

General

Used as a call to start dancing in earnest.

lazy girl job

Internet

A job chosen for balance and ease over ambition.

lazy minting

Internet

A method where an NFT isn't written to the blockchain until it's purchased, so the creator avoids upfront gas and the buyer pays it at sale.

lbc

Street

Long Beach City. The G-funk capital, immortalised by Snoop Dogg, Warren G, Nate Dogg and the whole Dogg Pound. If you hear 'LBC' on a record, somebody's about to rep Long Beach.

le

General

On hobbyist boards, LE means Law Enforcement — specifically the threat of one. 'Is she LE?' is the first question on any new ad, and 'LE check' threads catalogue sting patterns, cop tells and busted incalls. The whole etiquette of the trade is built around not getting caught by LE.

le ronca el mango

General

Cuban expression of astonishment or exasperation, that something is extreme or over the top.

lead vocalist

Internet

A member who sings substantial vocal parts and often supports or shares high notes with the main vocalist during live shows.

leader

Internet

The designated member who speaks for the group, keeps order, and often gives group speeches or interviews. Usually, but not always, an older member.

lean body mass

General

All of the body's non-fat tissue, including muscle, bone, organs and skin; the mass bodybuilders want to build and keep while dieting.

lean bulk

General

Building muscle with a moderate calorie surplus from quality foods, prioritizing minimal fat gain over rapid size.

learnings

General

Things learned from a project or experiment, framed as a countable noun.

leash

Gaming

At the start of the game, laners walk into the jungle and throw a few hits at the jungler's first camp so it clears faster — but pull off before the killing blow so the jungler gets the XP. Sets up a faster, healthier clear.

leather cover / cap

General

The cover is the leather (often muir/motorcycle-style) cap, and in Old Guard protocol it carried real weight. Headgear was reserved for Tops or experienced/heavy bottoms — not just anyone could put one on. And the cardinal rule: never touch another man's cover. Handling someone's cap without that level of intimacy is a serious breach of etiquette. The cap reads as rank.

leather family

General

A chosen-family unit inside leather culture, organised around mentorship, lineage, and shared values rather than blood ties. Often hierarchical, with leather titleholders, mentors, and protégés bound by household structure and tradition. It's social and organisational scaffolding, the way leather culture passes itself down and gives members a place to belong.

leather pride flag

General

The banner of the whole leather/kink community. Nine equal horizontal stripes — black and royal blue alternating out from a single white stripe in the middle — with a big red heart in the top-left corner. Tony DeBlase designed it and first flew it at International Mr. Leather on 28 May 1989, timed to Stonewall's 20th anniversary so leatherfolk had their own simple, elegant symbol. DeBlase deliberately assigned no fixed meaning to the colours: 'I will leave it to the viewer to interpret.'

leatherman

General

Not just a guy in a leather jacket. A leatherman is someone fully inside the leather subculture — the fetish dress, the BDSM scene, the codes and the brotherhood that come with it. Rooted in post-WWII gay biker and fetish circles, it's an identity as much as a wardrobe. There's protocol, there's community, there's history behind it.

leatherneck

General

Classic nickname for a US Marine, dating to the late 1700s when Marines wore a stiff leather neck-stock as part of the uniform — both to enforce upright bearing and to protect the throat from cutlass slashes in boarding actions. The leather collar is gone but the name stuck for over two centuries. 'Leatherneck' is also the title of the Corps' long-running magazine, founded 1917.

leave it out

Street

A curt request to stop doing or saying something, or an expression of disbelief.

lecky

General

Electricity, particularly the domestic supply or bill.

ledge

General

A low wall, block, or raised curb-like surface used for grinds and slides; a staple of street and plaza skating.

leech

General

Individual variant of 'bloodsuckers,' referring to a person who takes blood samples.

leet

Gaming

The alphabet of letter-to-symbol substitutions, also called 'leetspeak', used to obscure or stylize text.

leg

General

A soldier who is not airborne-qualified, used by paratroopers to distinguish those who have not earned their jump wings. Also rendered as the backronym 'Low Energy Grunt.'

leg day

Internet

A training session focused on the lower body — quads, hamstrings, glutes and calves — notorious for being the hardest and most avoided.

legal beagle

Street

An inmate known for legal knowledge who assists others with filings and case research.

legend

General

A term of high praise for someone who has done something helpful or impressive.

legendary

General

Legendary is a rank you earn, not a vibe — it comes after years (often around a decade) of consistently winning trophies and building a reputation on the floor. Once you're Legendary, the room knows your name before you walk. It's the tier just below Icon, and it's the proof you've put in the work category after category, ball after ball.

leggie

General

A leg-rope or leash connecting the surfer's ankle to the tail of the board.

leggin it

Street

To run off, bolt, escape on foot. Older British slang that drill rappers kept alive — usually deployed when feds, opps, or trouble shows up and the only sensible play is your trainers.

legging it

Street

Running away, whether from staff, a fight, or in an escape attempt.

leggo

General

To release, or figuratively to abandon restraint and party hard. 'Leggo' soca = high-energy jump-up music.

legit

General

Genuine or legitimate; also an intensifier meaning 'truly'.

legless

General

So drunk as to be unable to stand or walk properly.