Slang Dictionary — Modern Slang, Decoded

A pushing style in which the rider keeps the back foot on the board and pushes with the front foot; widely considered awkward or incorrect form by many skaters. Short for 'mongo-foot.'

'Money printer go brrr' mocks the Federal Reserve's large-scale money creation and asset purchases, implying that stimulus mechanically props up asset prices. The 'brrr' is the printer's sound.

What linemen call their pole-climbing hooks — the steel gaffs and leg irons that strap to their boots and bite into wood poles. No hooks, no climb, no paycheck — hence the name. Treated like sacred kit; you don't borrow another lineman's money makers.

A wealthy person or someone who has a lot of money.

To turn an asset, audience, or activity into a source of income.

Lazy-affectionate clipping of hormones, meaning HRT. 'On the mones', 'starting mones', the everyday way trans people talk about the meds without saying the whole mouthful. Occasionally used for the black-market kind too, when official routes are too slow or gatekept.

Mother. Birmingham famously uses 'mom' rather than the 'mum' common elsewhere in England.

By cultural extension, a nod to A Clockwork Orange aesthetics whenever milk is given a sinister edge.

A moll buzzer is a pickpocket or thief who specifically targets women, considered a low form of thief in underworld hierarchy.

A moll is a woman connected to the underworld, especially a gangster's girlfriend or female accomplice. The word has meant a low-status or disreputable woman since the 17th century.

Soft. Wet. Pathetic. Used to call someone out for being a pushover, simping too hard, or generally lacking backbone. Stings more than it should because of the imagery.

The forces and circumstances that caused a trauma, used to predict likely injuries.

Conspicuously surpassing another person in looks, height or status.

As a self-aware joke about feeling outclassed.

To visibly out-attractive another person — better jawline, better hair, taller, more shredded — to the point it's almost embarrassing for them. Lifted from 'AMOG' (Alpha Male Of the Group) in 2000s pickup-artist forums and adopted wholesale by the looksmaxxing scene on TikTok, Reddit and 4chan. Now used semi-ironically by everyone, with sub-flavours like 'jawmogging', 'hairmogging' and 'heightmogging'.

The warm, doting, almost protective adoration a fan feels for an endearing (usually cute and youthful) character. It can also describe the traits that trigger that feeling.

To rework or customize a piece of clothing so it better matches a target costume, e.g. recoloring, adding trim, or reshaping.

Filthy, mucky, manky. A mockit pair of trainers, a mockit kitchen floor, a mockit wean fresh from the park. Glasgow's go-to word for dirty.

Bay Area rap subgenre that crystallised in the early 90s — slow, menacing tempos, fat 808s, sparse synth stabs, live bass overdubs. Built on the foundation laid by Khayree, Mac Dre, C-Bo, Spice 1 and the Mob Figaz. Cousin to G-funk but grimier, less polished, more street.

Used as a direct backlash against the 'clean girl' minimalist trend.

In Aboriginal English, one's extended family, clan or community group; more broadly a crowd of people.

Local short for Missouri City, the suburb sitting on Houston's southwest edge in Fort Bend County. Reps love it; rivals call it 'Misery City' to talk slick.

Matchmaking Rating. A behind-the-scenes number the game uses to gauge your skill and pair you against players of a similar level. Win and it climbs, lose and it drops, and it usually drives your visible rank underneath.

Shorthand for the romance leads. MMC = the love interest you're meant to obsess over, FMC = the heroine whose head you're inside. BookTok reviews and ratings live and die by these two acronyms.