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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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A bottle of hard liquor, especially one bought for a party.

A tart-sweet green-to-golden tropical fruit eaten fresh (often with salt and pepper) or juiced. Also 'pommecithere'.

A person from England; 'pommy' as adjective. Can be neutral or derogatory ('whingeing pom').

The practice of engaging in several types of work or roles simultaneously, often combining traditional employment with freelancing, consulting, or entrepreneurial ventures.

A cynical relabelling of 'politics' as 'poly-tricks' — many tricks; practitioners are 'polytricksters'.

The practice of maintaining multiple simultaneous romantic relationships with the knowledge and consent of everyone involved. Distinct from cheating by its openness.

A sailor who has never crossed the equator by ship and has not been initiated as a shellback; the target of good-natured hazing during the line-crossing ceremony.

The unwritten rules of race, gang, and territory that dictate where you sit, who you talk to, and how conflicts are handled.

An organized sweep in which troops walk a line picking up litter, cigarette butts, and debris to clean an area — to 'police up' the ground.

An Appalachian and Southern term for a skunk (the true polecat is a European animal).

As a verb, 'to polari' means to talk or to speak the cant.

Taking pot-shots to whittle an enemy down or bait info without actually pushing. You're poking to force them to use heals and plates, not to win the fight outright.

Poker machines; electronic gambling slot machines found in pubs and clubs.

A slim metal or wooden pick used to clear ash, unclog a bowl or downstem, or push through a pipe.

A traditional Southern dish of young pokeweed leaves, boiled in several changes of water to remove their natural toxins.

How Memphis actually says 'pork and beans.' The 'r' gets eaten, the vowels round off, and you end up with poke 'n' beans — the cheap canned side that fed half the South growing up. Heard at cookouts, on porches, and in old-school Memphis rap.

Whittle the enemy's HP from a safe distance with abilities or auto-attacks, then back off before they can hit back. Do it enough and they can't fight or take the objective without dying.

Brigade chef de partie for fish and shellfish. Butchers whole fish, builds fumets, plates the most fragile proteins in the building. In smaller kitchens, the saucier covers it — but in classical brigades, it's its own job.

A defence cooked up by the target's board. The second a raider crosses a set ownership threshold, every other shareholder gets to buy new stock at a deep discount. The raider's stake gets diluted into nothing and the deal becomes too expensive to swallow.

Get in its face. By hugging an enemy you land more shots per second, so spread weapons and rapid fire melt things far faster up close. High-risk, because you're sitting in the danger zone, but it shreds bosses.

A forward with strong ball-handling and passing who initiates and directs the team's offense.

point choreography

The catchy, repetitive key movement that becomes a song's recognizable dance signature — the bit fans learn and copy in challenges.

A surf spot where waves break along an underwater rocky point or headland, often producing long, peeling, high-quality rides.

The third-party cousin of PogChamp. Same wide-eyed shock, used for stuff that genuinely surprises or hypes you.