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Short for 'Crypto Twitter', the sprawling community of traders, builders and commentators on X where much crypto discourse, alpha and drama unfolds.

The clear fluid that cushions the brain and spinal cord, sampled by lumbar puncture to diagnose infection or bleeding.

Your total last-hit count. It's the cleanest read on how well someone's farming — high CS means a fed gold lead even without kills. Pros are judged on CS per minute.

A male crypto enthusiast — usually loud, usually dogmatic, usually evangelising about a specific coin to anyone who didn't ask. Carries strong connotations of overconfidence, dismissiveness toward critics, and a Lamborghini-shaped vision board. Almost always pejorative when used by outsiders, sometimes worn ironically by insiders.

The dense network of crypto and NFT accounts on Twitter/X (abbreviated CT) where memes, alpha, drama and narratives originate and spread.

Can flip to mean genuinely emotional, by context.

A skill move where a player fakes a pass or cross, then drags the ball behind their standing leg to spin away from a defender.

A small rolled piece of card or a glass tip placed at the mouth end of a joint to keep it open, catch debris and let you smoke it to the end. Also called a tip or filter.

Describing something or someone unclean, ashy, or generally busted-looking.

To have romantic feelings or infatuation for someone.

Names a subgenre of Southern hip-hop built on shouted hooks and heavy 808s, pioneered by Lil Jon.

An armor-crew term for dismounted infantry, grimly evoking what happens to a foot soldier who gets in the way of a tracked vehicle.

To decline suddenly and acutely; a crumping patient is crashing and needs immediate attention. Also 'crump.'

To take a rapid turn for the worse; a patient who seemed stable whose vital signs suddenly collapse.

Describes a wave that breaks softly, spilling and crumbling down the face rather than throwing a hollow lip. Forgiving but low-powered.

A cannabis concentrate with a dry, brittle, cheese-like texture that crumbles into pieces when handled.

cruisin for a bruisin

A warning issued to someone pushing their luck.

Describes the state of being hungover after drinking.

The hangover itself, the morning-after suffering from drinking.

Serious, great, or of high importance; a term of strong approval.

Light shorthand for a forgetful patient; a polite gloss of a cruder original.

The eagle on a Navy petty officer's rank insignia. When a sailor makes E-4 and pins on PO3, they've 'got their crow' or 'made crow.' Lose your rate at captain's mast and you 'lost your crow.' The bird is the whole identity of being a petty officer.

A low, swaying dash that closes distance smoothly and feeds into a character's launchers and mids. String them together and you get a wavedash.

To take a post from one subreddit and share it into another while keeping a link back to the original. The point is to spread something good without ripping off the OP — credit stays attached automatically.