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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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'Landing Zone' — a designated area where helicopters land to insert or extract troops, casualties, or supplies.

Clipped slang for serum electrolytes such as sodium and potassium, or the panel measuring them.

A sentence of life with no parole date, pronounced 'L-wop.'

Dried whitefish reconstituted in lye, a gelatinous traditional Scandinavian dish served especially at Christmas in the Upper Midwest.

While the team hits one site, the lurker peels off solo to the other side of the map. They cut off rotations, pick people in the back, and feed info from behind enemy lines.

To move around low-key or sneakily, often with intent. In road slang it implies prowling or scoping out an area.

Sweet-talking or baiting someone into a spot where they'll die and drop their gear, usually the Wilderness. Pure scam tactic — the bait is always too good to be true.

Rough-mannered, clumsy in play, throwing yourself about. The word a mom uses when her lad's wrestling on the carpet and about to break the lamp. Classic gentle telling-off.

French for 'Fat Monday,' the day before Fat Tuesday. In New Orleans it's its own thing — Rex arrives by boat at the Mississippi riverfront, meets the mayor, there's a free concert and fireworks at Spanish Plaza. The pre-game before the main event.

To accept or tolerate something unpleasant, whether you like it or not.

A long prison sentence handed down in one large amount.

A big, clumsy or awkward person. Common in the Midlands and North.

A chimney or chimney-stack; a 'lum hat' is a top hat.

LUL turned up to eleven. The tighter crop reads as a bigger, harder laugh, so chat reaches for it when something's properly sent them.

A period of calm between sets when few or no waves come through, often used to paddle out or reposition.

Spammed when something's genuinely funny. It's the chat equivalent of laughing out loud, just with TB's grinning face attached.

The ear. From "lug" (old word for ear) plus "hole". Brummie and Black Country staple, made nationally famous by Frankie Howerd's "pin back your lugholes". Folksy, dated, still funny.

An ear ('lug' being an old word for ear).

A remark deliberately said out loud so a specific person overhears it, without addressing them directly, often to provoke.

luck manipulation

Controlling a game's randomness by feeding it specific inputs, timings or actions so the RNG spits out the outcome you want. Crits, drops, enemy patterns, all on demand.

A grind where the rider turns the bars roughly 45 degrees and balances on the rear peg and the pedal on the ledge, leaning back with the front wheel raised. It is a stylish, technical grind.

LTR is dating-profile shorthand for a long-term relationship, signaling someone is seeking commitment rather than something casual.

Lake Shore Drive, the scenic lakefront expressway along Lake Michigan.

Admitting something is good almost reluctantly.