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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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The hitter who is second in line to bat, following the on-deck batter.

Of a person, feeling great and doing everything just right.

A location hidden from surveillance cameras and officer sightlines, where fights or deals happen. Also 'the blind spot' or 'the wall.'

When a team commits enough team fouls in a period that the opponent shoots free throws on every subsequent foul.

Earning more than is spent; financially profitable.

On uniformed patrol duty in the NYPD. The 'bag' is the blue uniform itself, so being 'in the bag' means you haven't (yet) made detective or gone plainclothes.

Shredded. Most often drunk to pieces, but also used for anyone wrecked — laughing, crying, knackered. You've come apart at the seams.

In a complete state — drunk, hungover, hungover from being drunk, or just looking like you slept in a hedge. Anything tattered, chaotic, or falling apart. The 'rags' do the heavy lifting.

in it for the tech

A phrase, usually ironic, claiming interest in the underlying technology rather than speculative gains — typically said while very much watching the price.

When a defender marks an attacker so effectively that the opponent barely gets a kick.

Enjoying success or good fortune. Tall cotton meant an easy, profitable picking season.

Laughing so hard you can't breathe. 'He had me in bulk' means whatever he said wiped the floor with you — proper belly-laugh, not a polite chuckle. Same family as 'in bits' or 'crying'.

In a very poor state: badly hungover, distraught or exhausted.

Cockney rhyming slang for snout; 'snout' in turn is prison slang for tobacco or an informer.

Detroit goodbye. Despite the wording, it doesn't mean sixty seconds — it means 'sometime soon, whenever'. Functionally identical to 'later' or 'in a bit', just with the D's cadence on it.

Physically or emotionally destroyed. The classic Sunday-morning hangover state — you're not standing, you're a pile of yourself on the couch.

Stands for "I miss you," a short affectionate message to someone you're apart from.

A trick invented by Rodney Mullen in which the board wraps 360 degrees vertically around the rider's back foot, appearing to defy gravity. Named for how impossible it looked when first performed.

impermanent loss

The loss a liquidity provider incurs, relative to simply holding, when the prices of the two pooled assets move apart. It's 'impermanent' because it can reverse if prices return, but becomes real on withdrawal.

The area where waves break with the most force and pitch onto the surface; the worst place to be caught during a set.

The umbrella for everything that involves hitting. Bare hand, paddle, flogger, crop, cane, riding whip, the toolkit is broad and so is the intensity, from a warm-up spanking to serious heavy play. Thuddy (deep, dull) versus stingy (sharp, surface) is the language people use to describe the sensation. The bottom takes the strikes; aftercare usually follows.

A character's little sister, and by extension a doted-on 'little sister' archetype in fandom, sometimes the focus of its own genre of series.

A softener that invites disagreement and keeps things from sounding like a lecture.

immaculate inning

A half-inning in which a pitcher strikes out all three batters on exactly nine pitches, the minimum possible.