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The off-licence — a shop licensed to sell alcohol for drinking elsewhere. Widely used across the UK, not exclusively Scouse, but a daily fixture of Liverpool vocabulary. The pre-party pit stop.

Used adjectivally for anything channeling that Y2K corporate-femme-fatale look.

The formal process of separating a departing employee from an organization, covering knowledge transfer, exit interviews, revoking access, and returning equipment.

In a two-tank setup, the off-tank is the aggressive one. Their kit isn't about protecting allies, it's about disrupting, diving and bursting the enemy.

Instead of sitting where everyone checks, you post up somewhere weird, deeper, wider, tucked off to the side. The enemy clears the common spot, relaxes, and you catch them.

A vertical maneuver in which the board hits the breaking lip of the wave and then drops back down the face.

Out of control in a great way, beyond expectations.

Describes something so good or exciting it's basically uncontrollable, like an animal that broke loose from its chain.

A cook announcing they're leaving their station for a minute — bathroom, walk-in run, smoke, whatever. It's a courtesy and a safety thing: the rest of the line knows to watch their pans, catch their tickets, and not let anything burn. Always answered with an audible "heard."

A reassuring 'no problem at all' in response to thanks or a request.

The 'Overseas Experience' rite of passage where young New Zealanders travel and work abroad, often in the UK, for an extended period.

A traditional Igbo honorific originally bestowed on a distinguished warrior or community leader, meaning roughly 'great man' or 'champion.' In modern street and pop-culture slang it's used more loosely to hype a man who is successful, influential, physically impressive, or generally 'the boss.'

Describes a person (or thing) believed to be impervious to harm — bullets, blades, misfortune. It began as the name of a real charm/ritual practice and became a badge of fearlessness after Anambra's Bakassi Boys vigilantes were said to walk through gunfire unharmed while shouting the word.

The phenomenon where a series aimed at one demographic attracts a big female following because of its attractive male characters, named after actor Joe Odagiri.

To an extreme degree; over the top. Can describe doing too much ('you're doing OD') or serve as an intensifier ('OD people').

Any duty location outside the U.S. mainland, such as overseas or in Alaska and Hawaii.

The archetypal unrefined, boorish Australian bloke; also the associated broad accent and manner.

An address term for the man working behind a bodega counter, often of Middle Eastern or South Asian descent; can be used familiarly or dismissively.

The vegetable okra, used in soups and stews across the Caribbean.

A versatile exclamation expressing surprise, dismissal, sympathy or emphasis.

Tobacco. From 'tobacco' reversed and reshaped to 'occabot', a back-slang term for the leaf, whether for a pipe, a roll-up, or stock to be sold or bartered.

Short for 'original character'; a cosplay or design of a character invented by the cosplayer rather than drawn from a franchise.

Describing something clumsy-looking, ungainly or unattractive, usually in a derogatory way. Also spelt obzokie.

An abbreviation of "obviously," used to mark something as clear or self-evident.