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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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When the streamer drops a banger, chat fills with PepeD. It's the 'this slaps' dance.

Matt Furie's green anthropomorphic frog character, used as a reaction image to telegraph an emotion — smug, sad, angry, comfy, you name it. The base template spawned thousands of variants (Sad Pepe, Smug Pepe, Apu, Pepega, Monka) that function as a full emote dialect on Twitch and Discord.

A penny-weighter is a thief who specializes in stealing jewelry and precious stones, often by swapping fakes for real gems at counters.

A playful personified name for a discreet vape pen.

A prison officer, so called after the black-and-white uniforms once worn by staff.

A reminder to stay alert or keep tabs on something; also a warm sign-off ('take care / stay tuned').

A covered, arched passage leading through a tenement to a courtyard behind.

pencil-neck geek

Mocking term for a very skinny person who does high-rep sets with light weights.

penalty shootout

A tie-breaker where teams take turns to shoot penalties until a winner emerges.

A person on a dating app with whom you exchange lots of messages but who never converts the chat into a real-life date. All correspondence, no meeting.

Figuratively, for a situation or deal that 'stinks' — feels dodgy.

To dance by vigorously swinging and gyrating the waist. Also 'throw waist'.

To throw an object, often forcefully. 'Pelt a stone' = throw a stone.

A baseball player — a big deal in baseball-mad Puerto Rico and the DR.

A fortified stone tower in the Borders, built as defence against Reivers.

A beloved caramel-browned rice dish cooked with pigeon peas, meat and coconut milk. A Trini comfort-food staple.

A young person or kid, sometimes implying inexperience or naivety.

A pie, in the unmistakable Dundee accent. Almost always the mutton-filled Scotch pie you'd get from a baker. The vowel is so flat it's become a city signature.

To hang out laundry with pegs; colloquially also to be exhausted or (bluntly) to die. Northern/Midlands.

To run away at full pelt, usually from trouble — police, a bouncer, an angry shopkeeper, your mate's mum. Mancunian cousin of 'leg it'. Same energy, same panic, slightly more northern.

A short tube of steel or alloy fitted over the axle nuts, projecting from the wheel so the rider can grind, stall, or stand on it. Riders run one to four pegs depending on their style.

Small or little, the Northern Isles equivalent of 'wee'. Also a spinning top.

Not one emote but a whole cast. Any soft, round, simply drawn Pepe doing an emotion is a Peepo, and there's one for basically every feeling.

To observe or take note of something; 'peep this' invites someone to look.