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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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An ambulance, or the paramedic who staffs it.

Describes a skater who is roughly as capable in their switch stance as in their natural one, able to perform tricks both ways.

Straight Irish for an eejit, only with more weight. Calling someone an amadán has a bit more sting than 'fool' in English — it carries that disappointed, head-shaking 'ya great gobshite' energy. Used freely in Hiberno-English without needing translation.

The name of Reddit's famous interview-style format (r/IAmA) where celebrities and regular people answer the public.

A blanket term for 'alternative coins' — every cryptocurrency that isn't Bitcoin, from Ethereum to the smallest memecoin.

The side of TikTok where the FYP is frogs, eyeliner, sea shanties, Adam Driver edits, cursed cooking, and oddly specific bits. Self-styled as smarter, weirder, more chaotic than the mainstream side. If your FYP has more frogs than dances, congrats — you're on alt TikTok.

A player's secondary account, separate from their main. People run alts to mess about off-rank, play with lower-skilled friends, or — less charmingly — to smurf on beginners.

The higher tier of prehospital care that includes advanced airway management, IV medications, and cardiac interventions, provided by paramedics.

A clipped 'alright' used purely as a hello in Wales, requiring no real answer.

Alright; used both as a greeting and to mean okay.

Phonetic-alphabet code for 'ass chewing,' being verbally dressed down.

Insider or early information on a crypto project — a mint date, a partnership, a wallet's accumulation, a token about to list. The currency of Crypto Twitter and private Discords. 'Dropping alpha' means sharing it; 'alpha leak' means it got out before it was supposed to. Borrowed from finance, where alpha means returns above the market benchmark.

A Hawaiian word for love, affection, compassion and peace, used to say both hello and goodbye and central to surf culture's spirit.

Someone who has your back no matter what — a loyal friend who supports you and brings out the best in you, even at cost to themselves. Popularised nationally by Enugu-born rapper Phyno's 2014 street-anthem single of the same name.

Cockney rhyming slang for socks. Often clipped to 'almonds'. Straightforward end-rhyme, no double bounce.

One of Havana's classic 1950s American cars, often serving as a shared taxi.

Second-person plural address, equivalent to 'you all' or 'y'all'. Distinctly Trinidadian.

Always. Traditional Yorkshire pronunciation.

A foreigner, outsider or exile. In medieval Welsh law it was a specific legal status — an alltud had their own honour-price and compensation rates but couldn't testify against a native Cymro. Today it carries the older flavour of 'someone not of this land'.

A list of pre-approved addresses granted special early access or privileges to mint an NFT project; the increasingly preferred term for 'whitelist'.

The headline number in any arrangement. A flat monthly payment, usually a few thousand dollars, sometimes ten or twenty, that the daddy drops into the baby's account. Separate from gifts, trips and rent. Babies talk about their allowance the way salaried people talk about salary, and if it stops landing, the arrangement is over.

A particularly large and hazardous gap that poses a serious risk of injury if you come up short. The name warns that it will 'bite' you.

Failing to use full range of motion, as if your arms were too short (like an alligator's) to complete the movement.

Used as a hip term of address among hepsters, the root of 'see you later, alligator.'