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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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To shoulder the load and push through adversity; from putting on a heavy rucksack.

A large military backpack, or the act of marching long distances carrying it.

Your woman — wife or long-term girlfriend. Stronger than 'jaina'; this is the one you've been deep with.

A curry, the takeaway kind. 'Ruby Murray' rhymes with 'curry' and shortens to 'a ruby'.

The shortened form of 'Ruby Murray', Cockney rhyming slang for curry.

The final, deciding game of a series in which each team has won an equal number, so the winner takes the series.

Site slang for a wheeled excavator, the kind that rolls on rubber tyres instead of steel tracks. Named for the tyres. Handy on tarmac and roadworks where tracks would chew the surface, but less stable on soft ground than its tracked cousin.

Cockney rhyming slang for 'pub', shortened to 'rub-a-dub'.

To rub out a person is to kill them, erasing them entirely. It is classic Prohibition-era gangster slang.

A physical pat-down search of a prisoner, typically before or after visits or movements.

'Radiotelephone Operator' (or 'Radio/Telephone Operator') — the soldier responsible for carrying and operating a unit's field radio and relaying communications for the commander.

Curt reply telling someone to read the linked article before commenting on it. Deployed when a top comment is loudly wrong about something the first paragraph clears up.

'Return To Base' — an order or report that a unit or aircraft is breaking off and heading back to its home base, ship, or operating location.

An unassisted run timed on a real clock from start to finish, loads and all. The standard for human world records.

A retweet — broadcasting someone else's post to your timeline. Originally a copy-paste hack ('RT @user: ...'), now a one-click button. Verb and noun, often with the implied 'this deserves more eyes'.

From French "répondez s'il vous plaît," a request to reply to an invitation.

'Rocket-Propelled Grenade' — a shoulder-launched, unguided anti-tank/anti-personnel rocket weapon, most famously the Soviet-designed RPG-7.

Rate of Perceived Exertion: a 1–10 scale rating how hard a set felt, used to autoregulate training.

British slang for the cops, in use since the late 1800s. Origin's lost — possibly Romani, possibly a corruption of 'Robert' (Peel again). Sounds Dickensian now but still gets used, half-jokingly.

A parody spelling of 'right' as pronounced in the affluent south-Dublin (D4) accent, used as a filler.

A percentage (typically ~5-10%) that an NFT's creator earns on every secondary-market sale, encoded in the smart contract at mint.

A leet form of 'rocks', meaning to be great or impressive.

The brain work behind a run. Deciding the order you do everything, which items to grab, which to skip, where to risk a trick. A great route can beat raw execution.

A straightforward, direct style built on hitting long balls from defence to a physical forward, skipping midfield build-up.