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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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Bookstagram/Goodreads shorthand for whatever you're in the middle of. Lives in captions, bios, and shelf updates. Pairs with TBR (to be read) and DNF (did not finish).

Compton, California, in three letters. Famously on Eazy-E's snapback throughout the NWA era, and the gang-neutral way to rep the city — neither Blood (BPT) nor Crip-coded, just Compton.

An emergency procedure of chest compressions combined with ventilation to maintain blood flow and oxygenation during cardiac arrest.

ESO's never-ending progression bar. You earn Champion Points past the level cap and pour them into passives that crank your damage, survivability and utility. The grind that never really ends.

The cost of living, especially in the context of financial pressure; Macquarie Dictionary's 2023 Word of the Year.

To tip up, overturn or knock over; a 'cowp' can also be a rubbish tip.

To retch or gag, on the verge of being sick.

A surgeon who deviates from protocol, swaggers past the multidisciplinary plan, and reaches for the scalpel where a watch-and-wait would do. Said with grudging respect or open contempt depending on who's talking — the patient sometimes benefits, the system pays for it.

An exclamation of excitement or triumph, yelled before a surf run or any thrilling moment.

How many actual diners came through, not how many tables. A four-top is four covers. It's the single most important number in a restaurant — kitchens prep to it, owners judge nights by it, and managers will ask 'how many covers tonight?' before they ask anything else.

A flatbed trailer with the freight strapped and tarped — usually lumber, steel coils, or machinery. The tarps billow and snap in the wind, giving the silhouette a hump that recalls the Conestoga wagons crossing the American plains. Tarping a load is its own miserable skill: 100lb tarps, climbing on stacked lumber, doing it in the rain at 2am.

A zone coverage in which two safeties split the deep part of the field, each responsible for one half.

For a short seller to buy shares back and close their bearish position. Mass covering during a squeeze is what rockets the price.

A dupe or mark, when paired as 'cully' or 'cull' — the man to be cheated.

Warm-hearted, kindly and comfortable; snug and homely.

In Dota, the courier carries bought items from the base shop to a hero on the map so you never have to walk back. Lose it at the wrong moment and your team's spikes get delayed.

A unit of anime broadcasting equal to about one quarter-year of weekly episodes (roughly 11–13). Series are described as one-cour, two-cour and so on to indicate length.

A county sheriff or deputy — distinguished from state troopers ('full-grown bears') and city cops ('local yokels'). The rhyme makes it stick.

County lines is a model of drug dealing in which gangs use a dedicated mobile 'line' to sell drugs across regions, often exploiting children and vulnerable people as couriers.

country rap tunes

Pimp C's self-coined genre tag for what UGK did — slow-rolling, gospel-tinged, blues-flecked Southern rap built for hot Texas afternoons and slabs creeping down the boulevard. Not country music, not standard rap — the gumbo in between.

The score ceiling. Every counter has a max number of digits, and a counterstop is when you score so much the display literally can't go higher and rolls over or freezes. The ultimate flex in scoring play, usually requiring relentless milking and a flawless run.

counter-utility

They throw a smoke to take map control, you throw a molotov or HE to break it or deny the space behind it. Utility used to negate utility, the chess match before the gunfight.

In CS your bullets go wild while moving. Tap the opposite direction to kill your momentum instantly, and your accuracy snaps back so you can land the shot.

Picking a champion whose kit hard-counters an enemy's. You wait for them to commit, then choose the answer. Why draft order and last pick matter so much.