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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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When a player cannot feature for a new club in a cup competition because they already appeared in it for a previous club that season.

An offensive term for a person seen as backward, foolish or easily led. Also spelt coonoomoonoo.

A drain, culvert or covered watercourse.

A drain cover, or the covered drain itself. Pure Dundonian — say it anywhere else and you'll get blank faces. Kids in Dundee have been losing footballs down them since forever.

Short for 'country.' The out-of-town town or village where a city crew sets up shop to sell drugs — the receiving end of a county lines operation. UK drillers say they're 'going cunch' when they're leaving London to trap in a smaller town where the prices are higher and the competition is thinner.

A commentary cliche praising a player who is composed on the ball with an elegant range of passing, often 'a cultured left foot'.

A stock whose fans hold with cult-like devotion regardless of fundamentals, defending it fiercely against any criticism.

A person from the Irish countryside or a rural town, especially outside Dublin.

An umbrella term for LGBTQ+ / non-cis-heterosexual people, a Spanish respelling of English 'queer'.

A Bajan exclamation of pity or compassion. Also cud-dear, cuh-dear.

A half-joking explanation for why everyone suddenly wants a relationship around winter.

Cuffing is entering a committed, exclusive relationship, most associated with pairing up for the colder months.

Being securely paired off in a committed relationship.

To be cuffed is to be tied down in an exclusive relationship, especially one formed during cuffing season.

A horse or donkey; also used for a vaulting-horse or a fool.

A group of friends, frequently fursuiters, piling together in a comfortable, affectionate heap to rest and socialize. Also called a fur pile.

Someone with whom you cuddle for comfort or affection, often without a full romantic relationship.

Cuckooing is when drug dealers seize control of a vulnerable person's home, through coercion or manipulation, to use as a base for dealing.

A younger, often smaller version of a bear — usually furry and stocky but earlier in the journey. Frequently paired with an older 'daddy' or full-grown bear. The little brother of the bear family tree.

A close friend or buddy; also literally means 'twin'.

A common Caribbean word for money or cash, alongside 'chavos' and 'fula'.

A phonetic abbreviation for "see you," using letter sounds. A quick sign-off, sometimes extended to CUL8R.

Hospital shorthand for a patient who's actively dying despite everything, or already gone in everything but name. Stands for 'Circling The Drain' (or, more bluntly, 'Certain To Die'). Said quietly at handover, never written in the notes.

Stands for "call to action," a marketing prompt urging the audience to take a specific step.