"P" Slang

plazzy

General

Fake or cheap-feeling. Plazzy gangster, plazzy designer bag, plazzy hardman.

please?

General

An interjection used in Cincinnati to mean 'excuse me?' or 'could you repeat that?'

pleasers

General

The shoe. Pleaser USA makes the seven-to-nine-inch clear platform heels that basically every dancer and pole athlete on the planet works in. The brand name has gone full Kleenex, anyone says pleasers, they mean the plastic platforms, even if they're knockoffs.

pleb

Internet

In Bitcoin circles, a self-deprecating term for an ordinary, non-whale holder — someone stacking sats, running a node, not flexing. Worn proudly rather than as an insult. The pleb is the salt-of-the-earth Bitcoiner, distinct from VCs, influencers, and exchange CEOs.

plepla

General

To talk nonsense or baloney; empty chatter.

plinking

Gaming

A 1-frame-link trick: you press the attack button, then a lower-priority button one frame later, and the game registers two attempts in two frames. That effectively doubles your window to hit a tight link, turning a brutal 1-frame combo into something humanly consistent.

plod

General

A British police officer, usually a uniformed one on the beat. Mildly dismissive but rarely outright hostile — closer to ribbing than abuse.

plongeur

General

French for 'diver' — the dishwasher, bottom rung of the brigade. Orwell immortalised the role in 'Down and Out in Paris and London': sixteen-hour shifts, scalding water, no glory. The job that holds the whole kitchen up.

plonk

General

Used affectionately for a no-nonsense drink with no pretension.

plonker

Street

A silly or foolish person. Made a household word by Del Boy's 'you plonker, Rodney!'.

plot armor

Internet

The invisible protection that keeps a protagonist alive through situations they logically should not survive, because the narrative requires it.

pls

Internet

An abbreviation of "please," used to shorten requests. Also spelled PLZ.

plug

Street

Anyone with access or hookups, like a friend who scores you into events.

plug money

Street

Money made through a connection or supplier — your 'plug.'

plugged in

Street

Loosely, being clued up and in the know about what's happening.

pluh

Internet

A nonsense interjection thrown into or after a sentence for comedic, dismissive flavor, with no actual meaning.

plumb

General

Used as an intensifier meaning "entirely" or "absolutely," as in "plumb crazy." Common across the South and Appalachia.

plumbum oscillans

General

Faux-Latin diagnosis meaning 'swinging the lead,' i.e. a patient feigning or exaggerating illness to avoid work.

plur

Music

Loosely, the act of looking out for strangers at a festival — sharing, checking in, no judgment.

plz

Internet

A phonetic abbreviation of "please," common in casual chat and gaming.

pm

Internet

Stands for "private message," a message sent privately rather than in a public thread. Common on forums and Discord.

pmhx

General

A summary of a patient's prior illnesses, surgeries, and chronic conditions.

pmo

Internet

An older texting meaning of PMO is put me on, meaning share or recommend something.

pnd

Internet

Short for "pump and dump," a coordinated hype-then-sell scheme common with low-cap memecoins.

pnr

Internet

Shorthand for paranormal romance: romance plots where at least one lead isn't human. Vampires, werewolves, fae courts, demons, ghosts. Twilight blew the doors off in the 2000s; ACOTAR and the fae wave own the 2020s.

po

General

Indicates that a medication is to be taken orally rather than by injection or other route.

po-boy

Street

The submarine sandwich of New Orleans: roast beef and gravy, fried shrimp, oyster, catfish or hot sausage piled on a foot of Leidenheimer French bread with that paper-thin shatter crust and pillowy crumb. Order it dressed unless you know what you're doing.

po-po

General

Street slang for the cops. Casual, mildly derogatory, and old enough now that suburban parents say it.

poacher

General

An opportunistic forward known for clever movement and sharp finishing inside the penalty area rather than build-up play.

poap

Internet

'Proof of Attendance Protocol' — a free NFT badge minted to commemorate attending an event or reaching a milestone, collected as a record of participation.

pocho

General

A Mexican-American who is Americanized and may speak imperfect Spanish or Spanglish; can be pejorative or reclaimed.

pocket

Gaming

When a support sticks to a single ally and exclusively heals and buffs them, letting that player go wild. A pocketed DPS can be unkillable.

pocket character

Gaming

Your secondary, kept in your back pocket for the matchups your main can't handle. You don't play them all the time — they come out exactly when the bracket throws you that one character you hate.

pocketed

Internet

The state of being hidden by the person you're dating, never introduced or acknowledged publicly. The receiving end of pocketing.

pocketing

Internet

Describes the state of being the hidden partner.

podge

General

To push into a queue ahead of where you should be — at the chippy, the bus stop, the school dinner line. A specifically Brummie/Midlands word for the universally hated act of queue-jumping.

podna

Street

Partner. The default friendly way to address a man you don't know in New Orleans — neutral, not aggressive, not buddy-buddy. Works for the guy ahead of you in line, the dude who just cut you off, the bartender.

pog

Gaming

As an adjective, describing something genuinely great or exciting.

pog champ moment

Gaming

Said sarcastically when something underwhelming or ironic happens.

pogchamp

Gaming

The moment something insane happens, chat erupts in PogChamp. It's hype, shock and 'did you SEE that' all in one face.

pogey bait

General

Sweets, chocolate, chips, sodas — any sugary contraband stuffed in a cargo pocket or smuggled into the field. Currency in the barracks and gold in a foxhole. A solid Snickers can buy you a favour.

poggers

Gaming

A BetterTTV Pepe emote with a shocked, hyped open mouth, used to celebrate something cool happening.

pogu

Gaming

The third-party cousin of PogChamp. Same wide-eyed shock, used for stuff that genuinely surprises or hypes you.

point break

General

A surf spot where waves break along an underwater rocky point or headland, often producing long, peeling, high-quality rides.

point choreography

Internet

The catchy, repetitive key movement that becomes a song's recognizable dance signature — the bit fans learn and copy in challenges.

point forward

General

A forward with strong ball-handling and passing who initiates and directs the team's offense.

point-blank

Gaming

Get in its face. By hugging an enemy you land more shots per second, so spread weapons and rapid fire melt things far faster up close. High-risk, because you're sitting in the danger zone, but it shreds bosses.

poison pill

General

A defence cooked up by the target's board. The second a raider crosses a set ownership threshold, every other shareholder gets to buy new stock at a deep discount. The raider's stake gets diluted into nothing and the deal becomes too expensive to swallow.