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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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A flash hurts most when it pops in your face. Hear it coming, snap your view to a wall or the floor, and you only catch a fraction of the blind. The flash you anti-flash is a flash wasted.

Someone who actively dislikes an idol or group and expresses it through criticism, harassment, or hostile campaigns. A staple negative figure in fandom culture.

When the enemy is on an eco, they've got pistols and SMGs that shred up close but fold at range. An anti-eco setup means you hold back, play long angles, and refuse to feed them your rifle. Die to a P250 and you just handed them your weapon and their economy back.

A disappointing, flat ending or outcome that fails to live up to the excitement and expectation that preceded it.

An attack you throw out from the ground to knock someone clean out of their jump-in. React to the jump, hit the button, watch them fall. Every solid player has a reliable one.

An anti-fan — someone who doesn't just dislike an idol or group, but follows them closely enough to drag them daily. Short for 'anti-fan,' a concept that's been baked into K-pop culture since the early 2000s and occasionally crosses into genuinely dangerous behaviour.

A Cornish word from 'handsome', used to mean lovely, and as a greeting 'me ansome'.

another one bites the dust

The song whose beat (~100–110 bpm) matches the recommended rate for chest compressions, invoked with dark humour during CPR training.

A pseudonymous crypto user — typically posting under a cartoon PFP and a handle with no real name attached. Used both as a noun ('that anon called the top') and as a friendly direct address ('gm anon'). Carries no negative weight in Web3; anonymity is the default, doxxing yourself is the unusual move.

A polite greeting meaning 'hello', often the first Korean phrase fans learn and idols use to greet fans.

A particularly effective crossover dribble that makes the defender stumble, lose balance, or hit the floor, as if their ankles were broken.

Parodic fan works — comics or skits — that lampoon or reimagine established anime characters, a common form of doujinshi humour.

A style of kigurumi cosplay where the performer wears a full mask and bodysuit to reproduce an anime character's stylized face and features as literally as possible; practitioners are often called dollers.

Animation produced in Japan (or in its style), the central fandom of anime conventions and a primary source of cosplay characters.

A blended term covering anime and manga collectively, handy when a point applies to both.

Fan fiction saturated with characters' fear, sadness, anxiety, or torment, often the opposite of fluff.

Also called a 'curber'; the hooked staff itself was the 'curb' or 'angle'.

Properly grim. Used for food gone off, weather gone south, anyone looking rough on a Sunday morning. Range goes from mild ick to full revulsion depending on delivery.

Pilot-speak for altitude measured in thousands of feet. 'Angels one-five' means 15,000 feet. RAF brevity code from WWII that NATO air forces still use on the radio because it's short, clear, and hard to mishear over a noisy frequency.

About or concerning; regarding a matter. Now chiefly formal/legal in Scots.

An exclamation meaning 'no way' or a plea of 'don't,' expressing dismay or refusal. Common in dramatic idol and drama moments.

Urges someone to hurry or move along, and also expresses agreement or encouragement ('go on', 'that's it').

A basketball apparel brand whose late-1990s mixtapes and tour turned streetball moves and personalities into a national phenomenon.

Informal reference to the free-throw line as the spot where 'and-one' free throws are taken.