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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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Push, Pull, Legs: a training split dividing workouts into pushing muscles, pulling muscles, and legs.

To strike someone with a large PP9 battery placed inside a sock, used as an improvised cosh.

A supporter ritual where fans face away from the pitch, link arms and jump up and down in unison.

Rubbish, useless, irritating. A catch-all dismissal — the poxy bus, the poxy weather, your poxy boss. Mild enough to use in front of your mam, sharp enough to land.

An annoying, troublesome person or thing. 'Poxy' means lousy or worthless.

power of friendship

A recurring shounen theme in which characters overcome stronger foes through the emotional power of their friendships and teamwork, sometimes mocked as a convenient win button.

The mechanism underneath all of D/s — one person willingly hands control to another, who takes it. The word 'exchange' is the whole ethic: nothing is seized, it's given and received by agreement. Power exchange can be dialled from a single scene up to a full lifestyle. It's the framework everything from light D/s to Total Power Exchange sits inside.

A haircut. Old-school Manc — your dad's word, your barber's word. Often paired with a 'pow slap', the ceremonial smack on the back of the freshly-shorn head from any mate who clocked you'd been to the barber's.

Literally point of view, used as a caption that frames a video as if you're living it, like POV: you're late for work.

Prized green nephrite jade found in the South Island, culturally significant to Māori and worn as carved pendants.

A local mixed-breed street dog; sometimes applied loosely to people. Also pot-hound, potcake (in other islands).

A bedside 'sign' where a patient reports much worse abdominal pain when the car hits bumps on the way in — suggestive of peritoneal irritation, as in appendicitis.

Shorthand reference to the pothole sign, where jolts on the drive in worsen abdominal pain suggestive of peritonitis.

Someone who uses cannabis very frequently.

potatoes in the mould

Cockney rhyming slang for 'cold', shortened to 'taters'.

A thin stray dog with ribs showing; used affectionately or dismissively.

A mixed-breed stray or yard dog; a mongrel. Sometimes used pejoratively for a person of mixed race.

pot calling the kettle black

Said when someone criticizes a flaw in another that they share.

A mixed-breed or stray dog, named after the crusty food left stuck at the bottom of the pot that was fed to them.

A potential sugar daddy or sugar mommy — someone in the talking stage who hasn't yet locked in an allowance, PPM, or anything resembling a real arrangement. POT is a holding pen: they're being screened, vibe-checked, and sized up for whether they're the real deal or about to waste your time as a salt daddy.

Used for claiming a position or place firmly, as if planted.

posting through it

Continuing to tweet — often manically — while something is visibly going very wrong in your life. The crisis is happening and the timeline is getting updates.

A person who delivers the mail, often on a distinctive motorbike.

Beaten so emphatically that the moment looks poster-worthy at the victim's expense.