"R" Slang

renoi

General

Frequently used as an in-group identity term within Afro-French communities, expressing belonging and pride.

rent free

Internet

Describing something that occupies your thoughts constantly, unpaid and uninvited — it "lives in your head rent free".

rentoid

Internet

A renter, framed as a whiny sub-human leech on the noble landchad. Used almost entirely in ironic landlord cosplay, though it's escaped containment into broader right-leaning meme circles.

rep

General

A single, complete execution of an exercise movement, from start to finish.

rep out

General

To perform as many repetitions of an exercise as possible until you reach failure.

repackage

Internet

A re-issue of an existing album with additional songs, a new title track, and fresh promotions. A way to extend a comeback cycle.

reply guy

Internet

A man who answers every single tweet from a specific user — usually a woman he doesn't know — with corrections, jokes that didn't land, or 'well actually' energy. The reply guy isn't always hostile. He's just always there, like timeline mildew. The condition scales: top-of-replies guy, niche-expertise guy, divorced-dad guy.

repo haircut

General

When you borrow cash in a repo and post bonds as collateral, the lender doesn't give you a hundred cents on the dollar — they shave a few percent off to protect themselves if the bonds drop or you default. Treasuries get a tiny haircut, junk gets a fat one. Haircuts widened violently in 2008 and that, more than anything, killed Bear and Lehman.

repost

Internet

A post that's already done the rounds, served up again like it's new. Some subs ban them outright, others tolerate them if enough time has passed. The reply guy in the comments will always be there with 'repost' and a link to the original from 2014.

rerack

General

To put dumbbells, plates or bars back in their correct place after finishing with them — basic gym courtesy.

rerecording

Gaming

The core workflow of a tool-assisted speedrun. You load a savestate from earlier in the run, try a different input, and the emulator rewrites the movie from that point. Do it thousands of times and you grind out a flawless run frame by frame. Rerecord counts on big TASes can hit hundreds of thousands.

resenteeism

General

Remaining in a job one actively dislikes, often out of financial necessity or a poor job market, while harboring resentment. It goes a step beyond presenteeism by adding open discontent.

reset

Gaming

A mechanic where getting a takedown refunds your cooldowns so you can immediately go again. Champs built around resets, Katarina, Master Yi, can chain a whole teamfight into a pentakill if the kills keep coming.

resi

General

A semi-soft rubber matting laid over a ramp to cushion landings while riders learn or dial in dangerous tricks before taking them to concrete. Short for 'resilient' surface.

residentsleeper

Gaming

Used as a word meaning 'this is putting me to sleep.'

resin

Street

The dark, sticky tar-like residue that accumulates inside pipes and bongs from smoking; some desperate smokers scrape and re-smoke it.

reskilling

General

Training an employee to acquire the skills needed for a new and different role, often because their previous job is being automated or eliminated.

respect

General

Used as a greeting, thanks or acknowledgement conveying mutual respect; often 'respect due'.

rest-pause

General

A technique of taking a set to failure, resting only a few seconds, then continuing for additional reps with the same weight.

retail

Internet

Everyday individual investors trading their own money, contrasted with institutional 'smart money.' WSB casts retail as the scrappy underdog.

retake

Gaming

They took the site and the bomb's ticking. A retake is the counter-attack to win it back, clear the defenders, and either kill them all or defuse before it blows. Coordinated util and a clean timing push are everything here.

retrospectoscope

General

A joke 'device' with which everything is obvious in retrospect — invoked when a diagnosis is clear only after the fact.

return-to-office mandate

General

A formal policy requiring employees who had been working remotely to return to a physical office for some or all of the workweek. Such mandates triggered trends like coffee badging and resenteeism.

reuf

General

Used to signal solidarity or belonging to the same crew or neighbourhood.

revenge quitting

General

Resigning from a job abruptly and often publicly as an act of retaliation against an employer, typically after feeling mistreated, undervalued, or ignored.

reversal

Gaming

You're stuck in blockstun or waking up off a knockdown. A reversal is a move fired off on the first actionable frame, usually one with startup invincibility, to blow up whatever the opponent is doing. The classic get-off-me button.

reverse bottle adventure

Gaming

An Ocarina of Time glitch where putting a bottle on the B button lets you write a bottle's internal item value into memory outside the inventory, into addresses used for medallions, quest items and equipment. Runners use it to grant themselves upgrades and skip whole dungeons.

reverse cuffing

Internet

Choosing to avoid coupling up during the traditional cuffing months, embracing independence when others are pairing off. A counter-trend to cuffing season.

reverse harem

Internet

A romance setup where the female lead ends up with a whole roster of partners instead of picking one. Often rebranded as 'why choose' on BookTok because nobody is being shared against their will — everyone's signed up. Big in paranormal and fantasy romance.

revert

General

A move in which the rider slides the wheels 180 degrees on landing or on transition to switch back to their normal riding direction, often tacked onto other tricks.

revolú

General

A noisy, chaotic, disorderly situation — lots of people, noise, and disorder all at once.

rez

Gaming

To bring a dead teammate back to life with a resurrection spell, saving them a corpse run. The thing you beg the healer for after a wipe.

rheumaholiday

General

Teasing slang implying rheumatology is a relaxed posting with few emergencies.

rhingyll

General

Modern sense: a sergeant. The Welsh-language rank used in Welsh regiments and bilingual military signage, and pulled into English when writing about Welsh forces.

rhino chaser

General

A big board made for surfing big waves; a vintage term for a gun, less used since the 1960s-70s.

rhubarb

General

A heated argument or scuffle on the field, often involving multiple players and umpires.

rhythm section

General

A series of jumps or rollers placed back-to-back on a track that must be negotiated with rhythm and timing, whether by rolling, pumping, or jumping. Reading a rhythm section well is a key racing skill.

riah

General

Often paired with 'zhoosh' (to style) and 'shusher' or 'riah-zhoosher' for a hairdresser.

rickroll

Internet

To bait someone with a tempting link, headline, or QR code that actually opens the Rick Astley video. Nearly two decades in, people still fall for it, especially when the link is dressed up as a leaked album, breaking news, or work doc.

rid neck

General

Glaswegian for the cringe so bad your neck and face go scarlet. Used both for the feeling and the cause — 'pure rid neck' is the standard intensifier. The Scottish equivalent of getting absolutely flamed.

riddim

Music

The instrumental rhythm track over which dancehall/reggae DJs voice their lyrics; many artists record over the same riddim.

ride or die

Internet

A person who stays by your side no matter how hard things get.

ride out

Street

To roll out with your guys and back them up — even if they started it, even if they're dead wrong. The whole point is unconditional. If you won't ride out, you're not really one of them.

riding dirty

Street

In a car carrying something that would ruin you if the feds pulled you over — a strap, a stash, or both. The whole tension of the phrase is the gap between looking clean and being one stop-and-search away from a long sentence.

rif

General

An acronym for 'reduction in force,' a permanent elimination of positions for business reasons. To be 'riffed' is to be laid off as part of such a cut, rather than fired for performance.

rifar

General

To be awesome or to rule; 'rifársela' means to go all out or prove yourself.

rifársela

General

To do something impressively well or to step up boldly.

riffed

General

Informal workplace verb meaning to have been let go as part of a reduction in force, rather than fired for performance. Derived from the acronym RIF.