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A large gun, typically a rifle or a pistol with an extended mag — long enough to look like a mop handle when you're holding it. Drill-scene visual joke that stuck. If a rapper says he's bringing the mop out, he isn't cleaning the floor.

Your follow-back crew — accounts you follow who follow you back. Carries warmth: moots are the soft inner ring of an online life, the ones you reply to without thinking. 'Moot' singular = one specific one, usually a friend you've never met IRL.

Lightly tilt the stick back during the dash and your character glides backward at dash speed while still facing forward, just like the dance. It lets you retreat and still threaten a forward grab from the wrong direction.

Holding a second job in addition to one's regular employment, frequently done in the evenings and sometimes concealed from the primary employer.

Describes an asset undergoing a strong, sustained upward price move.

A relentlessly bullish person (female-coded counterpart to "moonboy") convinced a coin's price will surge dramatically.

Mildly derogatory term for someone who only ever predicts prices going up, ignores fundamentals, and treats every dip as a buying opportunity right before it gets dippier. Often a YouTuber with a thumbnail of themselves pointing at a green arrow.

A playful respelling of "moonboy," an over-eager believer that a coin's price is about to explode upward.

Marine Corps term for a handheld flashlight.

After a coin pumps, you sell enough to recoup your initial investment and leave a smaller stack riding 'for the moon'. House money. If it goes to zero you don't care; if it 100x's you're a genius. The disciplined degen's compromise.

Extremely potent cannabis made by dipping flower in hash oil and dusting it with kief.

A massive, often parabolic price increase. The asset isn't just going up — it's leaving the atmosphere. Usually paired with rocket emojis and a complete loss of analytical perspective. 'When moon?' is the eternal cope-question of every bagholder.

Someone timid, gullible or seen as a pushover.

To browse aimlessly, drift around — most often round the shops with no intention of buying anything. Pure killing-time energy. Used across the UK but a Brummie staple.

A 'beast' or 'monster' — someone extremely good at what they do.

Leaving one relationship only after securing the next, never being single in between, like a monkey swinging branch to branch. Also called 'monkey-barring.'

The sweet red fruit sauce squirted over an ice cream cornet.

Used to call out overlapping relationships that feel like cheating.

A person from Hartlepool, from the local legend of hanging a monkey as a French spy.

Small round dish — usually 3 to 5 inches — used for ramekin-style portions: dipping sauces, nuts, olives, side of slaw, lemon wedges. A staple piece of restaurant smallware. Origin is murky but the name's been kicking around the trade for over a century.

London money slang for five hundred pounds.

When a moment is unbearably tense, chat reaches past monkaS for monkaW. The tighter crop sells the panic.

Marks a cringe or risky social moment in stream where something could go badly wrong.

A nasty or despicable person; separately, 'mongrel' can mean aggressive competitive spirit ('a bit of mongrel').