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Calling someone an 'ewu' means you think they're being foolish or unserious — the same way calling someone a 'goat' or 'dummy' works as a light insult in English. It's a common, mild jab used in banter rather than a slur, and has become a favourite word across Nigerian Pidgin comedy and social media, regardless of ethnicity.

everything criss

An assurance that all is well and in order ('criss' = crisp/fine).

A motorcycle cop. Named for the stunt rider Evel Knievel, because anyone on two wheels chasing you down the highway gets compared to him.

Ethylene-vinyl acetate foam, a lightweight closed-cell foam (as in gym mats and craft sheets) that cosplayers cut, heat-shape, and seal to build armor and weapons.

Semi-derogatory label for a shooter with inertia-based movement, health bars, weak default weapons and shop upgrades — design choices the arcade crowd sees as flaws.

A move where a driver picks up the dribble, steps one way to bait the defender, then steps the other way to finish.

The most informal way to say yes, from the sound 'eung-eung'; used between close friends or in cute idol speech.

A four-player trick-taking card game hugely popular in Michigan and the Midwest, considered near-mandatory social knowledge.

The flexible tube passed into the trachea to maintain an open airway and connect the patient to a ventilator or bag.

The date a service member's current enlistment contract ends, and the process of separating.

Chemistry abbreviation for ethanol (ethyl alcohol, EtOH) that crews and ER staff use as polite chart code for 'this patient is hammered'. Shows up in run sheets as '+ETOH', 'ETOH on board', or 'smells of ETOH' — same information as 'drunk', sterilised for the legal record. Pronounced 'ee-toe' or spelled out.

'Estimated Time of Departure' — the projected time at which a unit, vehicle, or aircraft is expected to leave its current location.

Notation, usually "ETA:" at the bottom of a post or comment, marking text added after the original publish — typically responding to early replies without rewriting the whole thing.

To use or wear something for the very first time.

Describes something difficult or intense, and by extension something impressively hard-core.

Said of something incredible, amazing, or over the top. Also 'está volado'.

The ash pit beneath an old coal-fire grate. By extension, the fireplace itself. Common in the back-to-backs of industrial Birmingham and the Black Country, where everyone had a coal range and someone had to rake the ess'ole out every morning.

Dominican slang for a frozen ice or popsicle treat, often homemade and sold in a bag.

esqueleto rumbero

A humorous way to call someone very thin — a 'partying skeleton'.

eso que ni qué

Emphatic agreement, like 'no doubt about it' or 'that's for sure'.

Jocular term for a bodyboard (from its flat foam shape); literally the lid of a cooler.

A portable insulated container used to keep food and drinks cold, especially at a barbecue or the beach.

Functions as an ad-lib and hype phrase in music and online.

A member of an Australian urban youth subculture known for Nike TN shoes, polos, bum bags and Pig Latin slang; can also mean 'run'.