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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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Operating with your face fully covered — bally, snood, hood pulled tight — so CCTV, phone cameras and witnesses get nothing. Half operational security, half drill aesthetic; the masked silhouette is the genre's signature image.

no dispara un chícharo

Describes a very lazy person who won't do anything — 'doesn't fire off a single pea'.

A trick in which the rider steps the front foot onto the ground, pops the tail so the board rises, then jumps back onto it, often with a 180 rotation.

An assertion of truth; 'cap' means a lie, so 'no cap' means 'I'm not lying'.

A day to do absolutely nothing. Cancel plans, order in, lie down. The pug said no, and the pug is never wrong.

no blood, no foul

A streetball creed that minor contact is ignored — unless there's real, obvious damage, play on.

Literally 'mother,' but used far more broadly in everyday Igbo speech as a warm term of address for a woman or girl you feel close to — daughters, friends, even strangers — similar to how English speakers might casually say 'love' or 'dear.'

Stands for "not much" (reply to "what's up?") or "never mind," depending on context.

Describes deliberate trouble-making or drama-stirring behaviour.

Used to ask about a person or thing not yet mentioned, similar to English "what about...?"

Straight-faced abuse of the real abbreviation NKDA (No Known Drug Allergies) to mean the history simply wasn't taken.

A recently arrived or bandwagon fan whose knowledge of the subject is shallow, used with a condescending nuance toward superficial fandom.

Anyone who spends a Nitro boost on a server, earning the auto-assigned pink 'Server Booster' role plus whatever perks the mods bolt on — name colour, private channels, custom emoji slots. Functions as a visible flex that you paid to make the place better.

Discord's premium tier. Unlocks bigger uploads, HD streaming, custom emoji everywhere and the signature animated profile. Half its real value is social — having Nitro reads as 'I actually live here'.

Used by Caribbean youth to mean cool, neat or great, extending the standard sense of 'crisp/clear'.

Chilled to the bone, shivering with cold. Yorkshire and Northern.

A person (often a woman) with a sharp, curt or acid manner; also literally a strong boiled sweet.

Cold and biting (weather); sharp or spicy (taste); or sharp-tongued and curt (a 'nippy' manner).

As a verb, to cut a purse or to snatch something quickly; later loosely 'to nip' anything.

A quick stealth edit to a comment or post made before the platform timestamps it as edited. Used to fix typos, grammar slips, or quietly walk back something embarrassing without leaving a public paper trail.

Correctional officers dressed in helmets and body armor for cell extractions or riots, resembling the cartoon turtles. Also just 'turtles.'

You creep onto the bomb with enemies still alive nearby, start the defuse silently, and finish it before anyone clocks you. Pure nerve, often with sound cues masked or a clutch distraction.

Someone who grabs gear that should've gone to someone else — rolling need on stuff they can't use, or as a leader just taking it. A serious reputation-killer.

The prescribed radiotelephony pronunciation of the numeral '9', drawn out to 'niner' so it is not confused with the German 'nein' or the digit 5 over a noisy channel.