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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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mother is mothering

A celebratory tag for anyone treating you with care or leading by example like a maternal figure.

An admiring title for a star or icon who's serving so hard she's 'mother' to the culture.

A common Mexican Spanish term for cannabis.

Your girlfriend. Specifically Dublin slang — outside the Pale you're in 'young one' or 'bird' territory. 'The mot' = the missus.

Coming on extremely strong with flattery and declarations of interest, seemingly all-in, only to disappear without warning. It's love bombing followed by ghosting.

An old name for the Border Reivers who raided across moss and moorland.

Used loosely for decisively beating someone in a head-to-head moment.

As a verb, 'to mosh,' to throw yourself into that crowd energy.

To walk slowly and leisurely; to wander without urgency.

The code and title defining a service member's specific job or trade.

A sceptical or ironic interjection casting doubt on what has just been said; roughly 'supposedly' or 'yeah, right'.

Used hyperbolically for mild social awkwardness.

Hammered. Paralytic. Can't-find-your-own-front-door drunk. The Geordie default for a proper night out — past tipsy, past merry, all the way to mortal. Geordie Shore did its best to export the word nationally.

A 'walking mort' — an unmarried vagabond woman who tramped the roads with the crew.

A young person or kid; 'morra' for a girl. Can also mean boyfriend/girlfriend.

A girl or young woman; frequently used to mean one's girlfriend.

To eat, to scoff food. The source traces to French argot 'morfer' (to eat) and Italian dialect 'morfa' (mouth), absorbed into Lunfardo.

A low-lying coastal wetland — salt marsh, fen, or tidal flat — that the sea floods periodically. The word literally means 'sea-place' (môr + fa). You'll see it stitched into Welsh place names all along the coast: Morfa Conwy, Morfa Nefyn, Morfa Bychan.

A procedure word signalling that the transmitting station has more messages to send to the receiving station, so the receiver should keep listening.

A relaxed way of saying goodbye / 'catch you another time'.

more than you can shake a stick at

An abundance—so many you couldn't point them all out.

The BookTok shorthand for a hero who'll do bad things for the right reasons — or sometimes the wrong ones. Not a cinnamon roll, not a full villain, just unsettlingly hot and unpredictable. The whole genre runs on him.

Used historically and in documentaries to describe survival-driven theft within the scene.

The final phase of a wildland fire: walking the cooled black inside the containment line, digging up smoldering stumps and root systems, stirring ash piles, and drowning every last hot spot so nothing creeps back across the line and restarts the fire. Days of cold, wet, sooty work with a piss-pump and a hand tool — no glory, all grind. The structural equivalent is called "overhaul."