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Used in dating to describe a type associated with Twitch, TikTok, and being terminally online.

Someone who's trans but hasn't realised it yet, or is in denial, an embryo of the person they'll become once they 'hatch' (i.e. come out, the trans cousin of leaving the closet). The realisation itself is the egg 'cracking'. Used warmly and self-deprecatingly: people will joke about old habits being 'egg behaviour'.

Literally 'elder sibling'; used respectfully for anyone senior in age, rank, or street hierarchy, regardless of actual family relation.

The Eagle, Globe, and Anchor, the official emblem of the US Marine Corps. Older Marines often discourage the abbreviation.

A nickname for someone known for being academically brilliant — often used half-teasingly to describe the class 'nerd' who always has the answers.

An eshay term meaning sweet, good or excellent.

A junk pitch lobbed with a very high arc and little velocity, thrown like a slow-pitch softball to disrupt a hitter's timing.

Polari for face. It's backslang, 'face' clipped and flipped into ecaf, then worn down to eek. Lives in the classic greeting 'bona to vada your eek', lovely to see your face. Slap some powder on it and you're zhooshing your eek.

A foolish or silly person, often said affectionately rather than as a harsh insult.

A drawn-out exclamation expressing surprise, sympathy or wonder. Classic Yorkshire/Northern.

A drawn-out exclamation of distaste or shock.

A mild exclamation of astonishment. A signature (if now half-parodic) Yorkshire phrase.

Manc-mangled 'here you are', delivered when passing something to someone or to grab their attention. Two syllables fired off in roughly half a second. Functions as both 'take this' and 'oi, look at this' depending on tone.

EDLP = Everyday Low Price. A pricing strategy where the retailer keeps the shelf price consistently low instead of bouncing between regular and sale (the 'high-low' approach). Walmart built an empire on it; Aldi and Costco run the same playbook. Trade-off: you give up the promo spike, you gain trust and predictable demand.

Foods or beverages infused with cannabis, producing a delayed, longer-lasting high.

A cannabis-infused food or beverage, producing a delayed, longer-lasting, body-heavy high.

The deep end. Play that carries genuine physical or psychological risk, breath play, knife play, gun play, blood, where a real line is being walked. The 'edge' isn't fixed; it's whatever the people involved consider their limit. What's edgeplay for one couple is Tuesday for another. This is the territory where RACK earns its keep.

Implies the edginess is a performance rather than genuine conviction.

When you knock someone offstage, you don't sit back and wait, you go out (or sit at the ledge) and attack them so they can't recover. Half of Smash kills come from a good edgeguard, not from raw damage.

Instead of attacking the recovering player, you just snatch the ledge first. Since only one fighter can hold it, their tether or sweet-spot recovery has nowhere to grab and they fall to their death. Cheap, clean, effective.

The line where the safe zone ends and the storm begins. Playing edge means hugging that boundary so nobody can third-party you from outside. Safe back, eyes forward.

The closing credits song and animation at the end of an episode, the counterpart to the OP.

A fictional hospital unit ('Eternal Care Unit') to which a patient is said to be transferred when they die, riffing on ICU/CCU naming.

Short for 'economy round'. The team deliberately doesn't buy weapons or armour so they can afford a full loadout next round. You're basically conceding the round to bank the money.