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"S" Slang

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"S" Terms

switch
Street
A person who isn't locked into giving or receiving, topping or bottoming. They flip depending on mood, partner, or the day of the week. The opposite of a pillow princess or a stone top, a switch does it all.
switch ollie
General
An ollie done while riding in the unnatural (switch) stance, a benchmark of ambidextrous board control.
switchfoot
General
A surfer who can ride with equal ability in both regular and goofy stances, switching feet as needed.
swivel
General
Telling someone to do one, with a side order of two fingers. Short for the full 'swivel on it' / 'swivel on this' gesture — i.e. spin yourself round on the offered digit. Dismissive, faintly rude, very Manc.
swole
Internet
Describes a particularly muscular, pumped-up physique. A clipped, slangy form of 'swollen.'
swoop
General
British prison practice: walking the yard with your eyes down, hoovering up discarded cigarette butts so you can rip them apart and roll a fresh one from the leftover tobacco. Bottom-of-the-food-chain economics. The desperate skill of the skint and the addicted.
sword and board
Gaming
Running a one-handed weapon in one hand and a shield in the other. Less damage than two-handing, but the survivability that lets you hold a boss.
sx
General
Charting shorthand for a patient's symptoms.
sybil attack
Internet
An attack where one entity spins up numerous fake identities or wallets to gain outsized influence over a network, or to farm rewards like airdrops multiple times.
symmetry
General
The balance and proportion between muscle groups and left-right sides of the body, heavily judged in bodybuilding.
syne
General
Since, ago, or then/next; 'lang syne' is long ago.
synergize
General
To work together in a way that creates synergy. Widely mocked as peak jargon.
synergy
General
The combined value or benefit that results from cooperation between departments, teams, or entities being greater than the sum of their parts. It has become the poster child of empty corporate jargon.
synthesize
General
To pull together information from multiple sources into a unified whole.
syrup of figs
General
A wig or hairpiece. 'Syrup of figs' rhymes with 'wig', and is clipped to 'syrup', dropping the rhyme.
sz
General
Charting shorthand for a seizure, a burst of abnormal electrical activity in the brain.