"Q" Slang

Deliberately dialing down one's career drive and workload to preserve mental health and personal time, without fully disengaging from the job.

A designated calm, quiet area where overwhelmed attendees can retreat from the noise and crowds to rest and recover.

Taking deliberate steps to re-engage and find satisfaction in one's current role, such as building relationships or reshaping tasks, positioned as the positive counterpart to quiet quitting.

Taking undisclosed breaks or vacation time while appearing to work, such as scheduling messages or wiggling the mouse, to avoid using official PTO or admitting to time off.

To be angry, annoyed, or fed up. From 'aquillarse' (to get mad). Also spelled quillao'/quillá.

Historically and still in older usage, a brothel.

A girl or young woman, especially in the North-East and Aberdeen area.

A girl, a young woman, a lass. North-east Scotland's word for it. Pairs with 'loon' (boy) — the two come as a set in any Doric sentence about youngsters.

An admonition to stop acting mean, rude, or hateful—"ugly" refers to behavior, not looks.

What's up? What's good? The default Caló/Chicano hello between homies — same energy as 'wassup' in English. Lengthened to 'quiúbole' for extra warmth.

A surfer's collection of surfboards, each suited to different wave sizes and conditions.

A retweet that bolts your own text above the original. Officially designed for 'adding context'. Actually used to publicly humiliate the original poster while siphoning their reply count. If your mentions are full of QTs and zero are friendly, you've been ratioed via the long way round.