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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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Heads down, hands moving, no chatting — just get tickets up and out the window. Said during a rush when the printer won't stop and the only way through is volume. Slightly different from being 'in the weeds' — pumping it out is the controlled version, weeds is when you've lost it.

An exclamation urging a coin's price higher, associated with the Bogdanoff twins "dump it / pump it" meme mocking market manipulation.

A fake shooting motion designed to make the defender jump, creating a driving or shooting lane.

A manipulation scheme where promoters inflate ('pump') a coin's price through hype, then sell ('dump') their holdings onto the new buyers, collapsing the price.

A sharp upward move in price, whether organic or engineered. 'Pumping' describes a coin climbing fast.

Aggro a neutral camp so it pulls your lane creeps off their path and into the jungle. The wave dies in the camp instead of pushing, resetting equilibrium toward you and denying the enemy the XP and gold they'd have got.

To attract and get together with someone romantically, especially on a night out. "Pulling" means successfully getting a date, kiss, or hookup.

pull your head in

A blunt instruction to stop interfering or being cheeky.

A jump shot taken by rising straight up out of the dribble, without gathering into a set stance.

To drive a private car as an illegal, unregistered taxi ('PH' taxi).

In MMOs, initiating combat by getting an enemy (or a pack of them) to come to you, usually the tank ranged-attacking to grab a controlled number rather than waking the whole room.

The Hawaiian word for hole, used by surfers for a hole in the reef, a gap, or a ding punched through a board.

Worn out and exhausted; or of a thing, broken or not working.

Pick-Up Group. A team of players who don't know each other, usually formed through the in-game group finder. The opposite of running with your guild or mates. Notoriously hit or miss.

The unwritten sharing rule of taking about two hits before passing the joint, blunt, or pipe to the next person.

A jocular, mildly mocking term for a Coast Guardsman, referencing their coastal and inland waters mission.

Completely broken or wrecked; an anglicised spelling and pronunciation of the Māori 'pakaru'.

public pretender

What inmates call their court-appointed lawyer when they reckon the guy isn't actually defending them — just going through the motions before pleading them out. Born of overworked PD offices and 15-minute hallway conferences.

Used for women in general, sometimes older than a 'devotchka' (girl).

'Physical Training' — the organized physical fitness and exercise regimen that service members perform, often early in the morning.

As a verb, to psych someone is to mentally trick or fake them out.

Stands for 'public service announcement,' used to mark a post as important info worth everyone's attention.

Ps is money — straight up. From the £ sign / 'pees' (pounds). 'Bag of Ps,' 'chasing Ps,' 'made my Ps' — the most common money word in UK drill, full stop.

Improvised wine brewed in a cell from whatever ferments: oranges, fruit cocktail, ketchup, sugar packets, bread for the yeast, all sealed in a plastic bag and hidden warm for days. Tastes like the inside of a bin and can put you in the infirmary — botulism outbreaks from pruno are a documented thing — but it gets you drunk, which is the entire point.