"M" Slang

monetize

General

To turn an asset, audience, or activity into a source of income.

money bag

Street

A wealthy person or someone who has a lot of money.

money makers

General

What linemen call their pole-climbing hooks — the steel gaffs and leg irons that strap to their boots and bite into wood poles. No hooks, no climb, no paycheck — hence the name. Treated like sacred kit; you don't borrow another lineman's money makers.

money printer go brrr

Internet

'Money printer go brrr' mocks the Federal Reserve's large-scale money creation and asset purchases, implying that stimulus mechanically props up asset prices. The 'brrr' is the printer's sound.

moneymaxxing

Internet

Going all-in on optimizing your finances — aggressive saving, budgeting apps, side hustles, cutting every non-essential cost — often turned into short-form video content.

mongo

General

A pushing style in which the rider keeps the back foot on the board and pushes with the front foot; widely considered awkward or incorrect form by many skaters. Short for 'mongo-foot.'

mongrel

General

A nasty or despicable person; separately, 'mongrel' can mean aggressive competitive spirit ('a bit of mongrel').

monkas

Gaming

Marks a cringe or risky social moment in stream where something could go badly wrong.

monkaw

Gaming

When a moment is unbearably tense, chat reaches past monkaS for monkaW. The tighter crop sells the panic.

monkey

Street

London money slang for five hundred pounds.

monkey dish

General

Small round dish — usually 3 to 5 inches — used for ramekin-style portions: dipping sauces, nuts, olives, side of slaw, lemon wedges. A staple piece of restaurant smallware. Origin is murky but the name's been kicking around the trade for over a century.

monkey hanger

General

A person from Hartlepool, from the local legend of hanging a monkey as a French spy.

monkey-barring

Internet

Used to call out overlapping relationships that feel like cheating.

monkey's blood

General

The sweet red fruit sauce squirted over an ice cream cornet.

monkeying

Internet

Leaving one relationship only after securing the next, never being single in between, like a monkey swinging branch to branch. Also called 'monkey-barring.'

monstruo

General

A 'beast' or 'monster' — someone extremely good at what they do.

mooch

General

To browse aimlessly, drift around — most often round the shops with no intention of buying anything. Pure killing-time energy. Used across the UK but a Brummie staple.

mook

General

Someone timid, gullible or seen as a pushover.

moon

Internet

A massive, often parabolic price increase. The asset isn't just going up — it's leaving the atmosphere. Usually paired with rocket emojis and a complete loss of analytical perspective. 'When moon?' is the eternal cope-question of every bagholder.

moon rocks

Street

Extremely potent cannabis made by dipping flower in hash oil and dusting it with kief.

moonbag

Internet

After a coin pumps, you sell enough to recoup your initial investment and leave a smaller stack riding 'for the moon'. House money. If it goes to zero you don't care; if it 100x's you're a genius. The disciplined degen's compromise.

moonbeam

General

Marine Corps term for a handheld flashlight.

moonboi

Internet

A playful respelling of "moonboy," an over-eager believer that a coin's price is about to explode upward.

moonboy

Internet

Mildly derogatory term for someone who only ever predicts prices going up, ignores fundamentals, and treats every dip as a buying opportunity right before it gets dippier. Often a YouTuber with a thumbnail of themselves pointing at a green arrow.

moongirl

Internet

A relentlessly bullish person (female-coded counterpart to "moonboy") convinced a coin's price will surge dramatically.

mooning

Internet

Describes an asset undergoing a strong, sustained upward price move.

moonlighting

General

Holding a second job in addition to one's regular employment, frequently done in the evenings and sometimes concealed from the primary employer.

moonwalking

Gaming

Lightly tilt the stick back during the dash and your character glides backward at dash speed while still facing forward, just like the dance. It lets you retreat and still threaten a forward grab from the wrong direction.

moots

Internet

Your follow-back crew — accounts you follow who follow you back. Carries warmth: moots are the soft inner ring of an online life, the ones you reply to without thinking. 'Moot' singular = one specific one, usually a friend you've never met IRL.

mop

Street

A large gun, typically a rifle or a pistol with an extended mag — long enough to look like a mop handle when you're holding it. Drill-scene visual joke that stuck. If a rapper says he's bringing the mop out, he isn't cleaning the floor.

mop-up

General

The final phase of a wildland fire: walking the cooled black inside the containment line, digging up smoldering stumps and root systems, stirring ash piles, and drowning every last hot spot so nothing creeps back across the line and restarts the fire. Days of cold, wet, sooty work with a piss-pump and a hand tool — no glory, all grind. The structural equivalent is called "overhaul."

mopping

Pop

Used historically and in documentaries to describe survival-driven theft within the scene.

morally grey

Internet

The BookTok shorthand for a hero who'll do bad things for the right reasons — or sometimes the wrong ones. Not a cinnamon roll, not a full villain, just unsettlingly hot and unpredictable. The whole genre runs on him.

more than you can shake a stick at

General

An abundance—so many you couldn't point them all out.

more time

General

A relaxed way of saying goodbye / 'catch you another time'.

more to follow

General

A procedure word signalling that the transmitting station has more messages to send to the receiving station, so the receiver should keep listening.

morfa

General

A low-lying coastal wetland — salt marsh, fen, or tidal flat — that the sea floods periodically. The word literally means 'sea-place' (môr + fa). You'll see it stitched into Welsh place names all along the coast: Morfa Conwy, Morfa Nefyn, Morfa Bychan.

morfar

General

To eat, to scoff food. The source traces to French argot 'morfer' (to eat) and Italian dialect 'morfa' (mouth), absorbed into Lunfardo.

morra

General

A girl or young woman; frequently used to mean one's girlfriend.

morro

General

A young person or kid; 'morra' for a girl. Can also mean boyfriend/girlfriend.

mort

General

A 'walking mort' — an unmarried vagabond woman who tramped the roads with the crew.

mortal

General

Hammered. Paralytic. Can't-find-your-own-front-door drunk. The Geordie default for a proper night out — past tipsy, past merry, all the way to mortal. Geordie Shore did its best to export the word nationally.

mortified

General

Used hyperbolically for mild social awkwardness.

moryah

General

A sceptical or ironic interjection casting doubt on what has just been said; roughly 'supposedly' or 'yeah, right'.

mos

General

The code and title defining a service member's specific job or trade.

mosey

General

To walk slowly and leisurely; to wander without urgency.

mosh pit

Music

As a verb, 'to mosh,' to throw yourself into that crowd energy.

mossed

Gaming

Used loosely for decisively beating someone in a head-to-head moment.