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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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grand prize / grand march

The grand prize is the big one. The top trophy and cash at a ball, the win every house is chasing across the night's categories. Take enough categories, dominate enough, and you walk out with the grand prize and the bragging rights that come with it. New houses historically needed grand prizes to even be taken seriously.

Genuinely good or well, when answering how you are.

The viscera of a deer; as a verb, to disembowel a shot deer.

A highly coveted, prized NFT — a collector's holy grail — usually rare, iconic, or personally meaningful and rarely for sale.

Hard work. The honest, knackering kind — not faffing, not skiving, actual graft. A 'grafter' is the highest compliment you can give a workmate up North.

Anyone born at Grady Memorial Hospital, Atlanta's huge public hospital downtown. It's the city's badge of native-ness — you can move to Atlanta, but you can't be born there retroactively. Worn with pride.

When a token launched on a bonding-curve platform (like pump.fun) accumulates enough buys to 'graduate' — its liquidity migrates to a decentralised exchange for open trading.

The phrase 'garage key' compressed by the thick Chicago accent into a single word.

A hard-working, blue-collar, unglamorous type; the everyman fan or laborer.

Any trick in which the rider uses a hand to grab a part of the deck while in the air, common on vert, transition, and off ramps. Different grab positions have their own names.

A numeronym for "great," using 8 for its sound. Expresses approval.

The screenshot studio. You pause the scene, pose your character, tweak lighting, filters and camera angle, then capture it. The backbone of FFXIV's huge fashion and photography scene.

Brutal trauma-bay acronym for a patient whose neurological prognosis is hopeless but whose organs are intact and transplant-viable. Sits in the same dark register as 'donorcycle' — staff use it to compartmentalise rather than to be cruel.

Chiefly describes someone cross-eyed or with a squint in Scouse usage.

Throbbing painfully. A 'gowpin' heid is a pounding headache.

A fool, a simpleton, someone gormless. Old word, still understood in Geordie and Scots country.

In Nadsat, to govoreet is to speak or talk. Source word: Russian 'govorit' (говорить), 'to speak'.

government juice

A humorous Bajan term for plain tap water, supplied by the government waterworks.

Short for 'governor'. Used to address a prison officer or senior member of staff, often to curry a small favour.

The straight dope. Insider knowledge that saves you from learning the hard way — what questions are on the test, what the inspecting officer actually checks for, which chief to avoid on a Monday. Good gouge is currency.

A love-interest archetype who relentlessly and single-mindedly pursues fulfilling the object of their affection's desires, often to comedic or misunderstood extremes.

Slang for money coined as wordplay on the cheese-for-money tradition, using the Dutch cheese variety.

A literary nickname for NYC, later cemented by Batman comics. Evokes the city's grand, gritty character.

Tango, the music and dance. The source is the word 'tango' run through vesre (syllable reversal): tan-go becomes go-tan.