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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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Slang for well-developed latissimus dorsi muscles that flare out to the sides, creating a winged silhouette.

Slang for an airman, jokingly linked to the wing-shaped chevrons of a junior enlisted airman.

A residential section of a prison housing a group of cells on landings.

To dance by rolling and gyrating the hips and waist, a signature move in dancehall and soca. Also spelled whine.

The heat-lamped shelf at the pass where plated food sits for the thirty seconds — please, God, only thirty seconds — between leaving the line and hitting a table. The window is where service either flows or dies. Plates pile up here, the chef starts shouting, and somewhere a steak is turning grey.

wind yer neck in

A command to stop being cheeky, cocky or over-confident. Northern Irish.

A brevity code reporting that an aircraft has no ordnance remaining — all weapons have been expended.

To kiss passionately, or to be dating/courting someone.

An arrangement or outcome that benefits everyone involved.

To succeed at the most important objectives for a given day or moment.

A sarcastic refusal, delivered as a flat rhetorical question. Someone tells you to do something you have zero intention of doing, and you fire back 'will I, yeah' with deadpan disbelief. The 'yeah' is doing all the work — tonally somewhere between 'in your dreams' and 'go ask someone who cares'. Pure Dublin energy, but used nationwide.

The convention counter where attendees collect badges or tickets they bought in advance but did not receive by mail.

An offensive formation in which the ball is snapped directly to a running back or other non-quarterback, adding a running threat.

A combined radio close meaning 'I will comply with your message' and 'this transmission is ended with no reply expected' — 'wilco' plus 'out'.

A procedure word meaning "I understand your message and will comply with it." Because it already includes the acknowledgement of receipt, it is never used together with 'Roger'.

wiitwd (what it is that we do)

The scene's own polite umbrella for all of it. 'BDSM' only covers a slice, bondage, discipline, dominance, submission, sadomasochism, and plenty of people in the community don't slot into those letters. Someone solely into, say, infantilism or cross-dressing isn't doing 'BDSM' but is absolutely doing WIITWD. Deliberately vague, deliberately inclusive, and a bit of an in-joke.

A shifty, herky-jerky set of dribble moves used to shake and get past a defender.

An expression of astonishment that a costume or reveal is so impressive it 'snatched your wig'; high praise. Used as 'wig snatched' or 'that snatched my wig.'

To behave in an eccentric or unrestrained way.

Either the stocking-like cap worn over natural hair to hold it flat under a wig, or the wig's own scalp-simulating base material.

One-word reaction meaning you have been demolished by how good something is. The wig in question is yours and it has left the building.

A man's wife or primary girlfriend, as opposed to the 'matey' (mistress).

A woman generally, whether married or unmarried.

A loose limb, broken treetop, or dead branch hung up in the canopy that can fall without warning — usually onto whoever's working below. One of the top killers on wildland fires and a constant hazard during mop-up in burned timber, when fire-weakened trees start dropping pieces hours or days later. Lookouts are posted specifically to call them out; you don't sit, eat, or sleep under one.