"M" Slang

me resbala

General

An emphatic 'I don't care at all' — it slides right off me.

meal prep

General

Preparing multiple portioned meals ahead of time, so it's easy to stay on plan and hit macros throughout the week; chicken, rice and broccoli are staples.

mean

General

In Kiwi youth slang, 'mean' signals something excellent or impressive, especially in 'mean as' or 'mean feed'.

mean as

General

An intensified 'mean', signalling something excellent.

meat raffle

General

A community fundraising tradition, common at Upper Midwest bars and VFW halls, where players buy tickets and spin a wheel for a chance to win packaged meat.

meat shield

Gaming

A tough, expendable-feeling unit or player who stands at the front and eats the damage so the squishies behind them survive.

meatball

General

A pitch thrown right down the center of the plate that is easy for the batter to drive.

meathead

General

Slang for a heavily muscled gym-goer stereotyped as caring only about lifting and not much else; can be affectionate or mocking.

meatspace

Internet

A slightly ironic term for the physical, offline world (your body being 'meat'), contrasted with cyberspace/the metaverse; synonymous with IRL.

meaty

Gaming

You space or time a move so it connects on its last active frames instead of its first. The opponent eats it the instant they rise, and you get way more frame advantage — sometimes enough to combo off it.

mebbees

General

Maybe. The classic Geordie hedge — non-committal, often doubled up ('mebbees aye, mebbees naw') for full effect. Same shrugging vibe as 'I dunno, like'.

mecha

Internet

A genre and design category built around large robots or mechanical suits, often piloted into battle. Gundam, Evangelion and Code Geass are landmarks of the genre.

medevac

General

'Medical Evacuation' — the movement of the wounded or sick using dedicated, marked, medically equipped vehicles or aircraft crewed by medical personnel who provide care en route.

medibles

Street

Cannabis-infused foods, especially those consumed for medical purposes; a blend of 'medical' and 'edibles'.

medical futility

General

The concept, and bedside shorthand, that further intervention cannot achieve a meaningful outcome for the patient.

mee6

Internet

A wildly popular Discord bot that handles auto-moderation, welcome messages, XP/levels, music, and reaction roles. So ubiquitous it's basically generic — 'add MEE6' often just means 'set up a basic server bot,' regardless of which one you actually pick. Has a vocal hater contingent over its paywalled features.

meet

General

To French-kiss someone. 'Did you meet anyone?' at the end of a night out is not asking who you bumped into — it's asking who you got off with.

meff

General

A dirty, smelly or badly-dressed person — used as a proper insult. Liverpool-specific and properly cutting. Originally meant a tramp or vagrant; broadened to anyone scruffy or socially undesirable. Don't call someone this lightly.

megacreeps

Gaming

Kill every rax on the enemy's side and your creeps get upgraded across all lanes — bigger, tankier, harder-hitting. Megas pile pressure on every lane at once and can siege a base on their own if the enemy doesn't defend.

meganekko

Internet

A female character whose defining charm point is that she wears glasses, treated in fandom as its own attractive archetype.

megs

General

An abbreviated, playground form of 'nutmeg', shouted when the ball is knocked through an opponent's legs.

mek

General

To make or let ('mek wi go' = let's go); also 'wah mek' = why.

mellow out

General

To relax and become calm, easing off anger or anxiety.

melon

General

An air in which the rider grabs the backside (heel) edge of the board with the leading (front) hand. Short for 'melancholy.'

melt

Street

An affectionate jab between mates for being soft.

melt up

Internet

A melt up is a sharp, sentiment-driven surge in prices as investors pile in for fear of missing out, rather than because of improving fundamentals. It is the bullish counterpart to a meltdown.

melter

General

A deeply annoying or irritating person who wears you down.

melts

Gaming

Said of a gun with brutal damage-per-second. Point it at someone and their bars disappear like ice on a hotplate. The mark of a meta weapon.

meme stock

Internet

An equity whose price action is driven by viral attention — Reddit threads, TikToks, Twitter pile-ons — rather than earnings or business performance. GameStop and AMC are the archetypes; any forgotten ticker can become one if the meme catches. The defining feature: charts that look insane to traditional analysts and totally logical to anyone who was on r/wallstreetbets that week.

memecoin

Internet

A cryptocurrency that originates from a meme or humorous concept and derives its value mainly from social-media momentum and community rather than utility. Dogecoin is the archetype.

memphis underground

Street

Umbrella tag for the gritty, lo-fi cassette-era Memphis hip-hop scene of the early-to-mid 90s — horrorcore, pimp shit, devil shit, all stacked on cheap drum machines and crunchy 808s. DJ Spanish Fly, Tommy Wright III, Three 6 Mafia in their tape days, Playa Fly, Kingpin Skinny Pimp. The DNA of every phonk beat you've heard on TikTok.

mempool

Internet

The 'memory pool' where broadcast transactions sit pending inclusion in a block. Bots watch the mempool for opportunities like front-running.

menace

Internet

Being a menace to society as a joke about minor mischief.

menhera

Internet

A character (or person) exhibiting emotional instability, obsessive attachment and self-injurious behaviour. As an aesthetic it overlaps with 'yami kawaii' (sick-cute).

mental

General

Insane, wild or extreme; 'it was mental' means it was wild.

menty b

Internet

A mental breakdown; a jokey, clipped Australian coinage often used lightly about stress.

mera

General

A clipped 'mira' ('look') used to grab attention: 'hey, check this out'.

mercenary camp

Gaming

A neutral camp in HotS that, once cleared, turns the mercs over to your team to march down a lane and apply pressure. Free siege if you can spare the time.

merch

Gaming

Buying an item cheap and offloading it higher, often holding over days or weeks while the price climbs. The long game of making gold without swinging a sword.

merge

General

A brevity code reporting that friendlies and the targets have arrived in the same visual airspace, typically the start of close-in maneuvering.

merk

General

To beat, batter or thoroughly defeat someone. Standard roadman vocabulary for losing a fight, a rap battle, or a FIFA match — anywhere one party gets dismantled.

mermaiding

Internet

Mermaiding is disappearing without warning after a sustained close relationship, slipping away like a mermaid diving beneath the surface.

meroi

Internet

Describes someone or something so irresistibly cute or appealing that it makes you go weak — commonly said of an idol's or character's melt-worthy moments.

mess

Street

The dining hall or area where prisoners eat, though many now eat in their cells.

messages

General

The shopping. Specifically the everyday food shop — bread, milk, rashers, the works. 'Doing the messages' = heading to the shop. 'Get the messages in' = bring the bags from the car.

meta

Gaming

The set of strategies, picks, or weapons considered strongest at a given moment.

metadata

Internet

The information attached to an NFT — its name, description, image link and trait attributes — that defines what it is; can be on-chain or off-chain.

metaverse

Internet

Interconnected, persistent 3D virtual spaces where users socialise, play and trade, and where NFTs can serve as avatars, land and wearables.