Slang Dictionary — Modern Slang, Decoded

The day a private company finally lets outside investors buy a piece. Bankers price the deal the night before, the stock opens the next morning, and founders find out in real time whether they're billionaires or just rich. Underprice it and you've left money on the table; overprice it and it breaks issue and your CFO hates you forever.

'InterPlanetary File System' — a peer-to-peer network for storing files, commonly used to host NFT images and metadata so they aren't reliant on one server.

A young child whose primary babysitter is an iPad. The shorthand for a kid who can't sit through dinner without a screen, throws a meltdown when the battery dies, and speaks fluent Cocomelon. Used as a diagnosis more than a description — usually delivered with judgment toward the parents.

'Initial Point' — a well-defined reference point on the ground from which an aircraft begins its final run-in to a target, or from which a ground movement is timed.

Stands for "I owe you," acknowledging an informal debt or favor owed.

Order condition allowing partial fills, but only on the spot. Whatever can execute immediately does; anything that can't is cancelled rather than resting on the book. Algos lean on IOCs for sweeping liquidity across venues without leaving footprints.

A flip trick pairing a heelflip with a backside shove-it, so the board rotates and flips inward toward the rider.

Mockingly named condition where a lifter walks with arms held far out from the body as though enormous lats force them apart — even when they don't have them. Abbreviated ILS.

A vert trick in which the rider grabs the board and plants one hand on the coping, inverting the body into a momentary handstand before dropping back in.

Crossing into enemy territory to rob their neutral camps, snatch a buff, or set up an ambush before they get there. High risk, high disrespect.

Shorthand for 'invite' — the discord.gg link you ping someone to get them into your server. Doubles as a verb: to inv someone is to send them one.

The placement of an endotracheal tube through the mouth or nose into the windpipe to keep the airway open and allow mechanical ventilation.

Retreating onto ground that has already burned — "the black" — as a survival tactic when a wildland fire blows up and overruns the line. The logic: fire needs fuel, the black has none left, so it's the safest place to be when everything else is about to ignite. One of the named safety zones in LCES (Lookouts, Communications, Escape routes, Safety zones) and a core concept in every wildland refresher.

Booting the ball as far as possible away from danger, sending it deep into the seats.

Throwing yourself at the enemy to die again and again on purpose, handing them free gold and XP. Either rage-quitting in spirit, griefing, or a very specific 'int sup' strat.

How hard a set or session is, commonly measured as a percentage of one-rep max, or by RPE/RIR.

Describing a long-term inmate who has become so accustomed to the routine and structure of prison that they struggle to function outside it.

The point at which a couple confirms their relationship publicly by posting a photo together on Instagram, the modern equivalent of 'making it official.'

A defensive tech where you input block on the precise frame the attack connects. Nail it and you eat less blockstun and less pushback, so you stay close enough to punish or keep your own offense alive. Tight timing, big payoff.

To introduce new methods, ideas, or products.

A contraction of "isn't it," used at the end of a statement to invite agreement, like "right?" or "you know?"

In healing discourse, the self you reparent to address old pain.

In the inmate code, a derogatory contrast to 'convict,' meaning one who does not follow prison politics and is easily fooled or manipulated.

A triple-decker sandwich sold backstage at the music show Inkigayo; fans joked idols slipped their phone numbers inside to secretly date each other, turning it into a running fandom meme (and a copied recipe).