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A one-word dismissal of something as nonsense or meaningless, used the way English speakers might say 'rubbish!' or 'nonsense!'

Make-up. The whole face — foundation, mascara, the lot. Used by older Manc women without irony, by younger ones with a wink.

Short for 'time under tension,' the total time a muscle spends working against resistance during a set, sometimes manipulated for hypertrophy.

Rolling a longboard upside down and holding on underneath to let a breaking wave pass over, since big boards are hard to duck dive.

Cockney rhyming slang meaning gloves, sometimes shortened to 'turtles'.

Alcohol; 'on the turps' means out drinking.

Used as 'turnt up' to describe a party or moment that reached peak wildness.

An air trick where the front of the bike is pulled up almost vertical, turned sideways, and the bars are crossed nearly 180 degrees before being brought back to land. It is a classic, expressive freestyle move.

Bus the table, polish it, drop fresh settings and get the next party in the chairs — fast. The whole night's covers depend on how many times each two-top can be flipped, so on a Saturday push it's turn-and-burn or die.

How New Orleanians with a thick Yat accent say 'toilet.' Same vowel switch that turns 'oil' into 'erl' and 'boil' into 'berl' — the famous NOLA 'oi'-to-'er' flip that sounds shockingly like old-school Brooklyn. Heard most in white working-class wards like the Ninth and Chalmette.

Cockney rhyming slang for 'laugh', shortened to 'turkish'.

The seasonal breakup that happens when a first-year college student returns home for Thanksgiving and ends things with a high school partner they've outgrown.

An undesirable patient — the admission you didn't want, the one nobody on the team will claim. Vaguer than 'crock' (which implies fake complaints) or 'gomer' (which implies elderly/confused) — a turkey is just unrewarding work.

Oakland-born street dance style — short for 'Taking Up Room on the Floor.' Mixes gliding footwork, bone-breaking contortions, miming, and storytelling. Cousin to hyphy, blew up in the mid-2000s with the Turf Feinz crew.

To move a patient onto another team or department, often for non-medical reasons or simply because caring for them feels more trouble than it is worth. A respected survival skill among residents.

Affectionate (or not) jobsite name for a plumber. The joke is obvious: plumbers deal with what everyone else's drains carry away. Used freely by plumbers themselves — wear it as a badge — and by other trades busting their chops.

tunneling / box fight

When two players wall up into 1x1 boxes right next to each other and trade edits, peeks and shotgun blasts. Pure mechanical skill, no running. Whoever out-builds and out-edits the other wins.

When you fixate so hard on one kill or objective you stop reading the map, and walk straight into the four people flanking you. Classic way to throw a winning game.

Tuning is testing the waters through flirtation, chatting someone up to see if a casual connection could turn romantic.

tung tung tung sahur

Used as a rhythmic nonsense chant mimicking the 'tung tung tung' drumbeat.

Describes something wonderful, hyped or a great deal of fun; that an event or vibe is 'turned up'.

A turnip; figuratively used as a mild insult for a fool or blockhead.

To knock over or spill something, usually by accident; often "tump over."

A brevity code indicating limited or complete loss of situational awareness and a request for information to rebuild the picture.