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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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Short for 'package store', the legal term for a liquor store in Massachusetts (booze has to leave in a sealed package). Universal across the state — if a Bostonian says they're hitting the packie, they're on a beer run.

The packer-turned-personality whose rapid, beat-backed Discord roasts pulled packing culture out of niche servers and into mainstream Gen-Z feeds. His clips are the reason most people have ever heard the word 'packing'.

A person who throws down in Discord pack battles — i.e. roasts opponents in voice chat with surreal, machine-gun insults. Ranges from server randoms to micro-celebs like Packgod.

Killed — usually in the context of street violence or drill lyrics. The 'packing' image is funeral packaging: boxed up and sent away. Heavy word; not thrown around lightly even in road talk.

A quantification of lifetime tobacco exposure — packs smoked per day multiplied by the number of years — used in respiratory and cancer risk assessment.

To sulk, get upset, or throw a tantrum; can also describe a machine failing.

To fill the bowl of a pipe or bong with cannabis in preparation for smoking.

A quantity of weed, usually a pound or a sellable bag. The everyday hip-hop meaning — moving packs = slinging product.

Describes someone who is intoxicated, especially high on marijuana.

A light insult meaning 'fool' or 'idiot', often used affectionately about a clumsy or goofy idol.

A contraction of 'para adelante' meaning forward or onward, often as encouragement to press on.

Used to talk about income, profit, or the goal of getting paid.

Protective custody. A separate housing unit for inmates who'd get hurt or killed in general population — snitches, ex-cops, high-profile sex offenders, gang dropouts. Safer in the strict sense, but going PC tanks your reputation everywhere else; on a lot of yards, having been on PC means you can't come back to mainline.

The signature dance of New Orleans bounce music — rapid up-and-down popping of the backside, usually folded over or in a sissy-bounce squat. Predates the word 'twerk' going mainstream by a decade-plus; when Atlanta and the internet caught on in the 2010s, NOLA had been p-popping since the early '90s block parties and second lines.

The hospital. Pure Liverpool shorthand — usually said with the kind of casualness that suggests a regular visitor.

Australia; also 'Aussie' as adjective/noun.

A common, largely neutral descriptive term used across Nigeria for a white or light-skinned foreign person; can also be used more loosely for anything associated with the West.

Used to prompt someone into action, signal the start of something, or hand over the floor to someone else.

A biting term for someone so useless or talkative they are merely wasting the air others could breathe.

Scots (and Ulster, and Northern English) for armpits. Old word, Germanic roots, still in everyday use across Scotland and Northern Ireland. Often heard in 'up to my oxters in it' — meaning neck-deep, drowning, overwhelmed. Far better than saying 'armpits'.

The armpit, or the area under the arm; 'to oxter' can mean to support someone by the arm.

Cockney rhyming slang for the 'Tube' (London Underground), shortened to 'oxo'.

Cockney rhyming slang for 'dollar', which in old British slang meant five shillings (a crown).

A razor or knife. Comes from Cockney rhyming slang 'ox and bull' = pull (out a blade), shortened to just 'ox'. Drill rappers use it when narrating shankings and prison-yard slashings.