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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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Bootleg, homemade overproof rum distilled illicitly. Also 'babbash'.

An outdoor lavatory. A Black Country/Midlands term.

Term of endearment in Birmingham and the Black Country — equivalent to 'love', 'duck' or 'hun' elsewhere. Used by everyone to everyone: shopkeepers to customers, mates to mates, mums to kids. Completely platonic and warm.

By extension, any tag-team collaboration where two people trade off in real time.

A song on an album that is not the title track and typically isn't promoted with performances. B-sides are often fan favorites.

An adjective-like descriptor for the look and attitude of that scene.

A casual abbreviation of the word basketball.

Cockney rhyming slang meaning a tenner, i.e. ten pounds.

Yes. Also means 'always' in some phrases. 'Aye, right' sarcastically means the opposite.

See you later. A textbook Spanglish move: take the English 'watch', graft it onto Spanish conjugation, end up with a goodbye that's neither language and both at once. Pure Caló craft.

An emblematic Puerto Rican expression of sympathy, pity, tenderness or dismay — 'oh, poor thing' or 'oh my goodness'.

A lip trick in which the rider rides up and stalls with both trucks resting on the coping before dropping back in; the stationary cousin of a 50-50.

What a trader needs to buy or sell, urgently, off their own book. The desk sends round an axe sheet so salespeople can ring clients and dress it up as a great idea. If sales pitches you a bond out of nowhere, odds are the trader's axed in it.

Military classification for a service member who's left their post or unit without authorisation. Short stints get you charged; long enough and it upgrades to desertion. Pronounced 'AY-wol'.

Very, extremely ('awfy nice'). Also an adjective meaning dreadful.

away an bile yer heid

A dismissive retort telling someone to go away or stop talking nonsense.

A Twitch emote (often a side-eyeing cat) spammed when a streamer seems to be intentionally baiting or playing a character.

An expression of playful disbelief or mild dismissal, 'get away with you'.

awa an bile yer heid

A classic Scots dismissal — get lost, do one, away with you. Literally 'away and boil your head', the implication being you're talking such pish your head needs cooked. More cheeky than nasty; said between pals as often as foes.

A rapid four-level scale describing responsiveness: alert, responds to voice, responds to pain, or unresponsive.

Having an avoidant attachment style — craving independence and distancing when intimacy intensifies.

Avocado, as in 'smashed avo' on toast, a symbol of café culture.

Victory shout. Yelled when your team scores, when you win the bet, when something lands. Short for 'have it'. Bellowed, never said quietly.

avant apocalypse

An aesthetic blending high-fashion experimentation with dystopian, post-apocalyptic styling: distressed fabrics, draping, muted tones, and deconstructed silhouettes.