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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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Describes a fabricated story or an outright lie, often one that's overly detailed or dramatic to sound convincing.

A shortening of 'fabulous', historically popular in 1960s Liverpool.

Describes leisure, partying, or generally having a good time — a core Yoruba concept of enjoying life.

A semi-ironic show of sympathy. You say it (or just type 'F') when someone takes an L, big or small, a missed shot, a dumped player, a deleted tweet. The tone is mock-solemn; nobody is actually mourning, but they're acknowledging the loss.

A streamer-era ask for collective mock-condolence. Someone's clip ends in tragedy, the run gets wiped, the build crashes — chat is told to drop an F. Same energy as press F but framed as a directive to the audience.

Post-win trash talk. You drop EZ Clap to rub it in that the match was never close.

A shorter barbell bent into a zig-zag shape that reduces wrist and elbow strain during curls and similar movements.

A brief illustrated or animated bumper shown just before and after a commercial break in a TV anime, often featuring characters in a fun pose. Fans collect and screenshot memorable ones.

The Creole word for tears, literally 'water from the eye'.

Used as a friendly 'hello', or as a warning meaning 'watch out'. Ubiquitous across Yorkshire and the East Midlands.

extremely online

Original of the three. Less of an insult than 'chronically' or 'terminally' online — more of a knowing label. The Extremely Online person gets every reference, knows every micro-celebrity feud, and can trace a meme back to the 2014 Vine. Often the trait of journalists, posters, and people who 'work in social'. Useful skill, slightly cursed life.

Anything offered in the VIP room past what the licence permits: hand stuff, oral, full service, depending on the club and the city. Always off-menu, always negotiated quietly, and the source of constant tension between dancers who do them (and shift the market price) and dancers who don't.

A free life the game hands you, usually at a score breakpoint. Knowing your extend thresholds is half of surviving a one-credit clear.

To have your hidden behaviour or lies revealed for everyone to see.

The traffic cop between kitchen and dining room. Expo reads the tickets, calls the times to the line, marshals plates as they come up, garnishes, wipes, trays and hands off to runners. Done well, expo is invisible and service hums. Done badly, the whole night derails. Sometimes a chef, sometimes a senior server, always the one being yelled at from both sides.

A triage category and grim slang for a wounded person who is not expected to survive.

The unlucky late buyers who provide the cash for insiders, VCs or whales to cash out. If you're buying a token at the top while the team is selling, congratulations — you ARE the exit liquidity. The phrase is half technical (it's a real market-microstructure term) and half savage burn aimed at copers buying obvious tops.

A conversation conducted with an employee who is leaving a company to gather feedback on their experience and reasons for departure, used to improve retention.

When the bomb's planted and you've decided to save your weapon, you don't just run. You back out and snag whatever frees up on the way. That free kill is an exit frag. It costs the enemy money and dents their next buy, all for zero risk to you.

The event where founders and investors cash out, typically through acquisition or going public.

executive summary

A short section summarising the essential findings and recommendations of a longer document.

executive realness

Executive Realness is a Realness category where you have to pass as a corporate power player — sharp suit, briefcase, the whole CEO-on-Wall-Street fantasy. The point is to embody a world that often shut queer and trans people out, and own it flawlessly. Get clocked as anything other than a boardroom boss and you get chopped.

Not a rush, a plan. Smokes go down to block angles, flashes pop to blind defenders, molotovs clear the corners, and the team pushes onto the site together on a count. Clean utility, coordinated timing, that's an execute.

An item, often a Funko Pop or figure, produced in limited numbers and sold only at a particular convention or event, making it a prime target for collectors and resellers.