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What does that word actually mean? Our slang dictionary explains modern slang clearly — Gen Z, internet, British and street slang — with real definitions, examples and where each term came from.

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A white prisoner, especially one affiliated with the white car. The 'wood pile' is the white-controlled yard area.

The quilted nylon poncho liner, prized for its warmth and comfort in the field, treated like a security blanket.

A Brooklyn drill faction rooted in Canarsie, locked in long-running beef with the Choos. Pop Smoke and Fivio Foreign turned it into a global brand — say 'Woo' and the whole scene knows what side of Brooklyn you're claiming.

Often refers to having (or lacking) spending money.

A brand of thermoplastic that softens with heat and stretches on the bias, letting cosplayers form rounded armor and props over a base.

A dog — affectionate, but the kind aimed at a mutt rather than a pedigree. Black Country and Brummie roots; basically the local cousin of "mutt".

A bluff or hollow threat; 'selling wolf tickets' means talking tough with no follow-through.

British forces nickname for the Chinook, straight-up onomatopoeia for the unmistakable 'wokka-wokka-wokka' beat the twin tandem rotors make as they slap the air. If you've been near one you know the sound before you see it. Universal across the British Army and RAF — pilots, crew, and the squaddies riding in the back all use it.

Wokefishing is portraying yourself as more socially progressive than you truly are in order to appeal to a date, then revealing different views later.

UK drill name for jail. 'Wok house' is the full form, 'wok' is the shorthand. Sits in the same family as 'box', 'slammer', 'inside' — but with that distinctly London drill flavour. If the gang are 'in the wok' they're locked up.

The original black-outlined bald guy with the wistful 'feels' face. Spawned a sprawling family of variants — soyjak, chudjak, doomer, zoomer — used as reaction images in every Discord server with a memes channel.

Shorthand for Wockhardt, the Indian pharmaceutical company whose promethazine-codeine syrup became one of the most sought-after bases for lean after US makers like Actavis pulled out of the market in 2014. If a rapper's name-dropping wock on a track, they're flexing access to the good stuff.

Straight use means a result is within normal limits; the cynical reading is 'We Never Looked,' implying the exam was skipped.

Shorthand for 'women loving women', covering lesbians, bi women, and anyone on the women-into-women spectrum. Used as a hashtag and an identity tag. Big on TikTok in part because spelling out 'lesbian' can get a post throttled, so the community routes around it with WLW.

Shorthand for 'whitelist' — the pre-approved list of wallets allowed to mint a collection early or at a guaranteed price.

The final hour before the close on derivative-expiry days. Traders are unwinding hedges, rolling positions, and chasing strikes all at once. Volume spikes, spreads widen, and the tape does things it doesn't do on a Tuesday.

On Reddit specifically, a coordinated campaign to identify, dox, or mass-downvote/harass an individual user — usually after they did something the mob considers heinous. Site rules ban it outright, which is why drama subs scrub usernames from screenshots.

A wiseguy is a made man, a full member of the Mafia. It signals someone connected and dangerous, not merely clever.

A fall or crash off the skateboard, borrowed from surf culture; a general term for going down.

To clean a bench or machine after use, particularly to remove sweat — a matter of gym hygiene and etiquette.

A total party kill. Everyone in the raid or dungeon group dies, the boss resets to full health, and you all run back from the graveyard to try again. The bread and butter of progression raiding.

An unfinished fan fiction released chapter by chapter, with more instalments still to come.

An ex reaching back out to rekindle a relationship specifically to avoid being alone in winter, with no intention of lasting past the cold. A cuffing-season maneuver.

Chicano Caló for someone who drinks heavily, from English 'wino'.