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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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Russian slang for money, literally 'cabbage,' echoing green-vegetable money metaphors.

Drop it at the end of a sentence and you've just put air quotes around the whole thing. It means 'don't take that seriously, I'm being ironic.'

Emoticons built from characters that are read without tilting your head, such as (^_^) or (>_<), heavily used in anime-fan chat.

kangaroos loose in the top paddock

Used of someone who is a bit mad, eccentric or not thinking straight.

A prison officer. Formed by rhyming slang stacked on top of 'screw'.

By extension, the gifting ritual itself — trading kandi is a peace-and-friendship handshake in the scene.

A giant monster that rampages through cities, a genre and creature type central to tokusatsu and much anime. Literally 'strange beast'.

The everyday Kiwi word for food, used interchangeably with 'food' in casual conversation.

The romantic-drama move where one person slaps or leans a hand on the wall beside another, trapping them in place — an iconic shoujo 'wall slam' moment.

A friendly farewell meaning 'see you again'. Often shortened to 'ka kite'.

A specific deep royal purple, named for the Katz & Besthoff drugstore chain that drenched the city in it for most of the 20th century. New Orleanians use it the way other people say 'Tiffany blue' — a precise color reference everyone local instantly clocks.

Affectionate CB-radio nickname for a Kenworth truck — usually the long-nose W900, the chrome-fronted American icon. Kenworth drivers tend to be loyalists, and the K-Whopper has a near-mythic status in owner-operator culture: expensive, beautiful, holds its resale value, and looks right doing anything.

Korean internet users whose forum and portal reactions strongly shape idols' domestic reputations, distinct from 'I-fans' (international fans).

A domestic Korean fan, whose spending and voting carry outsized weight for domestic charts and awards versus i-fans.

Visible distension of the neck veins, a sign of elevated central venous pressure seen in heart failure or tamponade.

A money move — could be a sale, a flip, a side hustle, a one-time score. To 'hit a juug' is to pull off the play and walk away paid.

A flexible time expression meaning 'in a moment' or 'shortly', though the actual delay can range from minutes to hours. Also 'jus-now'.

An elastic time expression meaning 'soon' (future) or 'a moment ago' (past). Also 'just now'.

Memphis-shaped version of 'joint' — does the work of thing/song/person/situation depending on context. The all-purpose pronoun-noun of Memphis slang, alive from 90s tapes through GloRilla today.

Bond rated below BBB- by S&P or Baa3 by Moody's. Issuer's credit is shaky, so the coupon is juicy to compensate for the real chance you don't get paid back. Polite industry term is 'high yield', but everyone calls them junk.

Living in the space between lanes, killing neutral camps for gold and XP instead of standing in a lane. It's a whole role, not a side hustle.

Doesn't hold a lane. They live in the jungle farming neutral monsters between lanes, then roam out to gank - jumping a laner from the side for a free kill. The map-wide playmaker. In MOBAs the jungler often decides the early game.

The persistent low clouds and coastal fog that blanket Southern California in late spring and early summer.

A prisoner controlled by stronger inmates and made to run errands, clean, or hold contraband.