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To dunk over a defender in dramatic fashion, making them look helpless. The image is worthy of a poster, with the dunked-on player forever the backdrop.

A dunk so emphatic over a defender that it deserves to be printed as a poster.

Standing in one spot on a block, usually a corner or trap house, on the clock waiting for customers. The street-level version of 'open for business' — eyes up, hands free, phone live.

Spanglish verb meaning to post content online.

The small area right in the angle of post and crossbar — so tight that hitting it is like finding a postage stamp.

A supplement taken after exercise to support recovery and results, often protein and fast carbs.

The phase of a round once the bomb is planted. Attackers stop pushing and play to run down the timer; defenders have to retake. All about angles, lineups and trading.

post-con depression

The letdown, sadness, or fatigue many attendees feel once a convention is over and they return to ordinary life. Abbreviated PCD; also called post-con blues.

When a player, usually a big, establishes position near the basket with their back to the rim to receive the ball and score.

A gang, crew or group of associates; in the 1980s specifically Jamaican organised crime groups in the US/UK.

To wash clothes by pounding them with a 'poss stick' in a tub.

positive hilton sign / suitcase sign

Mock 'sign' that a patient sitting fully dressed with bags packed is well enough to go home; the 'suitcase sign.'

position or ban

A community demand that anyone touting a trade must post a screenshot proving they hold the position — otherwise they're dismissed (or banned) as all talk.

Bottom of the gold pecking order, top of the thankless-job list. Pos 5 buys wards, courier and consumables, babysits the carry early, and trades their own farm for the team's. No items, all impact.

A person who adopts skateboarding's look, brands, or attitude to fit in or impress, without genuinely skating or having real passion for it. A pointed insult in skate culture.

A prisoner whose job is cleaning and maintaining a housing unit or common area, a desirable trusted position.

portable parking lot

A car-carrier rig stacked with seven to ten new or used vehicles. From a distance it really does look like a parking lot rolling down the interstate. Loading one is a Tetris puzzle on hydraulic ramps; one wrong angle and you scrape a $90,000 SUV on the upper deck.

British slang for serving a prison sentence — 'doing porridge'. Comes from the stodgy breakfast that was the standard prison meal for over a century. The 1970s Ronnie Barker sitcom Porridge cemented it in the national vocabulary for good.

Lies or untruths. 'Porky pies' rhymes with 'lies' and clips to 'porkies'.

Cockney rhyming slang for 'lie', usually pluralised and shortened to 'porkies'.

Often used lightheartedly for small fibs rather than serious deception.

Cockney rhyming slang meaning lies, almost always shortened to 'porkies'.

por la izquierda

Getting something done under the table — through bribes, black market, or off-the-books deals. Literally 'by the left'.

A playful Welsh nickname for the microwave, imitating the pop of the food and the ping when it finishes. Also 'poppity ping'.