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Slang Dictionary — Modern Slang, Decoded

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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Someone who pries into others' business; a nosy person.

A stylish grab air, borrowed from snowboarding roots, in which the rider grabs the heel edge and tweaks the board up behind them by bending the knees, arching the body for maximum style.

An attack that launches the opponent straight down. The catch (in games with meteor cancelling, like Melee) is the victim can negate it with a precise jump or up-B, so a meteor smash isn't always the guaranteed kill a spike is.

mete tremenda muela

Said of someone who talks way too much or launches into long-winded speeches.

Interconnected, persistent 3D virtual spaces where users socialise, play and trade, and where NFTs can serve as avatars, land and wearables.

The information attached to an NFT — its name, description, image link and trait attributes — that defines what it is; can be on-chain or off-chain.

The set of strategies, picks, or weapons considered strongest at a given moment.

The shopping. Specifically the everyday food shop — bread, milk, rashers, the works. 'Doing the messages' = heading to the shop. 'Get the messages in' = bring the bags from the car.

The dining hall or area where prisoners eat, though many now eat in their cells.

Describes someone or something so irresistibly cute or appealing that it makes you go weak — commonly said of an idol's or character's melt-worthy moments.

Mermaiding is disappearing without warning after a sustained close relationship, slipping away like a mermaid diving beneath the surface.

To beat, batter or thoroughly defeat someone. Standard roadman vocabulary for losing a fight, a rap battle, or a FIFA match — anywhere one party gets dismantled.

A brevity code reporting that friendlies and the targets have arrived in the same visual airspace, typically the start of close-in maneuvering.

Buying an item cheap and offloading it higher, often holding over days or weeks while the price climbs. The long game of making gold without swinging a sword.

A neutral camp in HotS that, once cleared, turns the mercs over to your team to march down a lane and apply pressure. Free siege if you can spare the time.

A clipped 'mira' ('look') used to grab attention: 'hey, check this out'.

A mental breakdown; a jokey, clipped Australian coinage often used lightly about stress.

Insane, wild or extreme; 'it was mental' means it was wild.

A character (or person) exhibiting emotional instability, obsessive attachment and self-injurious behaviour. As an aesthetic it overlaps with 'yami kawaii' (sick-cute).

Being a menace to society as a joke about minor mischief.

The 'memory pool' where broadcast transactions sit pending inclusion in a block. Bots watch the mempool for opportunities like front-running.

memphis underground

Umbrella tag for the gritty, lo-fi cassette-era Memphis hip-hop scene of the early-to-mid 90s — horrorcore, pimp shit, devil shit, all stacked on cheap drum machines and crunchy 808s. DJ Spanish Fly, Tommy Wright III, Three 6 Mafia in their tape days, Playa Fly, Kingpin Skinny Pimp. The DNA of every phonk beat you've heard on TikTok.

A cryptocurrency that originates from a meme or humorous concept and derives its value mainly from social-media momentum and community rather than utility. Dogecoin is the archetype.

An equity whose price action is driven by viral attention — Reddit threads, TikToks, Twitter pile-ons — rather than earnings or business performance. GameStop and AMC are the archetypes; any forgotten ticker can become one if the meme catches. The defining feature: charts that look insane to traditional analysts and totally logical to anyone who was on r/wallstreetbets that week.