"M" Slang

minces

Street

The shortened form of 'mince pies', Cockney rhyming slang for eyes.

mind-muscle connection

General

Deliberately focusing attention on contracting and feeling the target muscle during an exercise to improve activation.

minerals

General

Soft drinks. Anything sweet and fizzy in a bottle or can. The word that catches tourists out at Irish weddings when the bar lists 'pints, shorts and minerals'.

mingin

General

Horrible, dirty or stinking. Can also mean extremely drunk.

mini album

Internet

A release containing a handful of tracks, shorter than a full album but more than a single. Equivalent to an EP in Western terms.

mini ramp

General

A small U-shaped ramp, usually shorter than the rider and without a vertical section, made of two quarters and a flat bottom; great for lip tricks and flow.

mini-cut

General

A brief, sharper-than-usual calorie deficit (often a few weeks) used to rapidly shed fat, frequently between bulking phases.

minnows

General

A tiny or lowly-ranked club or nation expected to lose against stronger opposition.

mint

General

Describes something excellent, brand-new or in pristine condition.

mint out

Internet

The point at which all available NFTs in a collection have been purchased during the mint event.

mint pass

Internet

An NFT or pass that guarantees its holder the right to mint an upcoming collection, effectively a redeemable ticket for a future drop.

minted

Street

British slang for being rich or having lots of money.

minus craic

General

Describes a person, place or event that is completely lacking in fun.

mirin

Internet

Short for 'admiring'; expressing appreciation for another lifter's physique or gains, often used ironically online.

miriota

Internet

A fan with deep, encyclopaedic knowledge of weapons, military history, tactics and hardware, especially as depicted in anime and games.

mirliton

Street

What the rest of the world calls chayote squash, New Orleans calls a mirliton — pronounced 'MEL-uh-tahn' locally. Stuffed with shrimp and breadcrumbs, it's a Creole holiday-table classic. Vines grow on backyard fences all over the city.

mirror muscles

General

The front-facing muscles — chest, biceps, abs — that people tend to train most because they're visible in the mirror, often at the expense of back and legs.

mise

General

Your prep. Every diced shallot, every squeeze bottle, every pan within arm's reach — labelled, portioned, ready to fire. If your mise is tight you can cook a busy Saturday on autopilot. If it's loose you're in the weeds by 7pm. Chefs treat it as a religion, not a chore.

mise en place

General

French for 'putting in place' — the sacred kitchen ritual of having every ingredient chopped, every sauce in a squeeze bottle, every tool laid out exactly where your hand expects it before the first ticket prints. Bad mise = weeded by 7pm. Good mise = you look like a wizard.

miskin

General

A rubbish heap, dung heap, or by extension a dustbin. Old Black Country and Birmingham word from Old English for the household muck-pile out the back. Largely retired since the 1960s but still surfaces in older speech and the phrase 'marry the miskin fer the muck' — marrying for money.

miss vanjie

General

A goodbye delivered like you're floating away in slow motion. You repeat it — 'Miss Vanjie... Miss Vanjie... Miss... Vanjie' — as an exit, a sign-off, or just because it's stuck in your head. It became shorthand for a dramatic, unforgettable departure that somehow outshines everyone who stayed. Proof you can be the breakout star while being the first one out the door.

mission critical

General

Describing a task or system whose failure would jeopardise the whole effort.

missus

General

A man's wife or female partner; 'the missus'. Also 'misso'.

mit

Gaming

Short for mitigation. Defensive cooldowns that cut the damage you take. Pop mit before a big hit lands or your healers will hate you.

mitch

General

To skip school, play truant, bunk off. The Welsh (and Irish) word for what English kids call 'wagging' or 'skiving'. If you mitched off double maths, you've got a story.

mitcher

General

A kid (or adult) who skives — wags school, dodges work, vanishes when they should be somewhere. From the verb 'to mitch' (to play truant), long-standing in Welsh, Irish, and West Country English. 'On the mitch' = currently bunking off.

mither

General

To bother, pester or nag — usually low-grade and persistent. Kids mither for sweets, partners mither about the dishes, bosses mither about deadlines.

mithering

General

Bothering, nagging or making a fuss. 'Stop mithering' is a classic Northern rebuke.

mix up

General

Caught up in gossip, drama or people's business; 'mix up an' blenda' = deep in the drama.

mmc/fmc

Internet

Shorthand for the romance leads. MMC = the love interest you're meant to obsess over, FMC = the heroine whose head you're inside. BookTok reviews and ratings live and die by these two acronyms.

mmr

Gaming

Matchmaking Rating. A behind-the-scenes number the game uses to gauge your skill and pair you against players of a similar level. Win and it climbs, lose and it drops, and it usually drives your visible rank underneath.

mo city

Street

Local short for Missouri City, the suburb sitting on Houston's southwest edge in Fort Bend County. Reps love it; rivals call it 'Misery City' to talk slick.

mob

General

In Aboriginal English, one's extended family, clan or community group; more broadly a crowd of people.

mob wife

Pop

Used as a direct backlash against the 'clean girl' minimalist trend.

mobb music

Street

Bay Area rap subgenre that crystallised in the early 90s — slow, menacing tempos, fat 808s, sparse synth stabs, live bass overdubs. Built on the foundation laid by Khayree, Mac Dre, C-Bo, Spice 1 and the Mob Figaz. Cousin to G-funk but grimier, less polished, more street.

mockit

General

Filthy, mucky, manky. A mockit pair of trainers, a mockit kitchen floor, a mockit wean fresh from the park. Glasgow's go-to word for dirty.

mod

Internet

To rework or customize a piece of clothing so it better matches a target costume, e.g. recoloring, adding trim, or reshaping.

moe

Internet

The warm, doting, almost protective adoration a fan feels for an endearing (usually cute and youthful) character. It can also describe the traits that trigger that feeling.

mog

Internet

To visibly out-attractive another person — better jawline, better hair, taller, more shredded — to the point it's almost embarrassing for them. Lifted from 'AMOG' (Alpha Male Of the Group) in 2000s pickup-artist forums and adopted wholesale by the looksmaxxing scene on TikTok, Reddit and 4chan. Now used semi-ironically by everyone, with sub-flavours like 'jawmogging', 'hairmogging' and 'heightmogging'.

mogged

Internet

As a self-aware joke about feeling outclassed.

mogging

Internet

Conspicuously surpassing another person in looks, height or status.

moi

General

The forces and circumstances that caused a trauma, used to predict likely injuries.

moist

General

Soft. Wet. Pathetic. Used to call someone out for being a pushover, simping too hard, or generally lacking backbone. Stings more than it should because of the imagery.

moll

Street

A moll is a woman connected to the underworld, especially a gangster's girlfriend or female accomplice. The word has meant a low-status or disreputable woman since the 17th century.

moll buzzer

Street

A moll buzzer is a pickpocket or thief who specifically targets women, considered a low form of thief in underworld hierarchy.

moloko

General

By cultural extension, a nod to A Clockwork Orange aesthetics whenever milk is given a sinister edge.

mom

General

Mother. Birmingham famously uses 'mom' rather than the 'mum' common elsewhere in England.

mones

General

Lazy-affectionate clipping of hormones, meaning HRT. 'On the mones', 'starting mones', the everyday way trans people talk about the meds without saying the whole mouthful. Occasionally used for the black-market kind too, when official routes are too slow or gatekept.