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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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A self-deprecating badge members wear proudly, framing themselves as reckless gamblers who treat the market like a casino. Often shortened to 'degen.'

Short for 'degenerate gambler', a trader who takes wild, high-risk bets on volatile tokens. Once an insult, now a self-applied flex in DeFi and memecoin circles.

The clarity of muscular detail and separation that shows when fat over the muscle is low; also called muscularity.

Short for 'decentralised finance', an ecosystem of lending, trading, and yield services built on blockchains without traditional intermediaries like banks or brokers.

Yes, absolutely, for sure. A clipped, chummy way of saying 'definitely' — softer and more casual than the full word. Heard all over the UK now but lives loudest in Scouse and wider Northern English speech.

When the team winning the coin toss chooses to delay its option to the start of the second half, usually to receive the ball then.

The handful of huge, lowest-common-denominator subreddits that used to be auto-loaded into every new user's feed. Synonymous with mainstream, normie Reddit — the front-page stuff regulars grew tired of and accused of dragging the site's quality down.

No set strat? You run a default. The team fans out across the map, takes early space, and gathers info on where the CTs are stacked. Once you know where they're weak, you converge and hit. It's the patient, read-the-map opening.

Excellent, cool, or the very best, used as strong approval.

A cabin, shack, trailer, or stretch of family land up north that hunters retreat to every November for Michigan's firearm deer season (opens Nov 15). More than a building — it's a ritual. Beers, cards, woodstove, blaze orange, and getting up at 4am to sit in a blind. Often passed down through generations.

Deep-liking is engaging with a person's much older social media content, which gives away how deeply you've been browsing their profile.

A three-point attempt launched from well behind the three-point line, further than a standard three.

Stealth turned all the way up. Where ordinary stealth might mean colleagues and acquaintances don't know but your spouse and closest friends do, deep stealth means the history is hidden from everyone, sometimes even intimate partners. Total privacy, no exceptions. A heavy thing to carry, and a deeply personal choice.

An accidental or bold like on a photo far back in someone's feed, exposing that you've been scrolling deep into their history. Often mortifying if unintended.

deep in the weeds

Deeply immersed in the minutiae of a task, often at the expense of the big picture.

An in-depth analysis or close look at a subject, as opposed to a surface-level overview.

Serious, heavy, grim — said about a situation that's hit harder than expected. The MLE equivalent of 'that's rough' but with more weight behind it.

To look at something, have a peek. Used as a verb ('deek at that') or a noun ('giz a deek'). Quick, casual — same energy as 'butchers' down south.

Dead; also used figuratively ('me phone's deed').

An undesignated seaman assigned to the deck force — the unglamorous division that chips paint, hauls mooring lines, runs replenishments, and does whatever physical labor needs doing topside. Often a kid fresh out of boot who hasn't been to a school yet. Half insult, half badge of honor; deck apes wear it themselves.

The floor or surface aboard ship, extended ashore to mean the ground or floor. As a verb, to punch or knock someone down with one blow.

Short for decarboxylate; to heat raw cannabis to convert THCA into psychoactive THC, essential for edibles.

An air trick where the rider swings their whole body a full 360 degrees around the bike while keeping hold of the bars, then lands back on the pedals. It is a classic old-school freestyle move.

In K-pop, the official first release and stage performance of an idol or group. It's treated like a coronation — debut showcase, debut MV, debut stage on a music show, debut anniversary celebrated forever after. Pre-debut content (trainee clips, survival show footage) becomes instantly more valuable the second a debut drops.