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streaming party

An organised campaign where fans stream a song or video en masse to push chart and view numbers.

When bullets aim at you, you drift slowly sideways so they trail off in a single readable line instead of spraying. Move too far and you wall yourself in.

Someone watching a live stream and using what they see — the streamer's position, loadout, rotation — to find and kill them in-game. Cheating in spirit if not always in code.

Australia, rendered the way it is often said aloud.

Armed with a shank or other weapon concealed on the body.

A gun. From the shoulder strap of a holster — if you're strapped, you're carrying. One of the most durable gun-words in hip-hop, predating drill by decades and still doing daily duty in drill bars.

A noisy disturbance, uproar or chaotic scuffle. A staple of football commentary.

A firearm — the UK drill diminutive of 'strap' (American gun slang). Tweaked with the -y/-ie suffix London drill loves to slap on everything (oppy, lengy, dotty).

Genuinely or truthfully; also a question meaning 'really?'.

straight tiktok

The pretty-people side of the FYP — Hype House dances, lip-syncs, thirst traps, influencer brand deals, Charli/Addison-tier content. The default For You Page for new accounts. Treated as the bland twin by alt TikTok, who think they're above it (they aren't).

An inmate who avoids trouble, doesn't get involved in prison politics, and serves his time quietly.

Describes a well-organized, well-turned-out soldier with a pressed uniform, polished brass, and shined boots — a proud, competent trooper who can be depended on.

A hearty Scottish dish of potatoes slow-cooked with onions and (usually leftover) meat.

Physically stiff and sore, often from age, injury, or hard work.

A flat, dense, round loaf of bread roughly the size of a dinner plate, traditionally baked on the bottom of the oven. Sliced through the middle and stuffed with ham and pease pudding, it's the classic Newcastle sandwich. Named because if you drop it, it bounces — 'stot' is Geordie for bounce.

A flat, round, dense loaf of bread native to the North East, often filled to make a sandwich. Also 'stottie cake'.

To stagger, reel or bounce; often of a drunk person's walk.

Extremely drunk; falling-over intoxicated.

Inner-city Dublin greeting, short for 'what's the story, horse?' — 'horse' being a matey term of address (think 'mate' or 'pal') with no equine implications. Pure working-class Dublin, you'll hear it around Liberties, Finglas, the northside flats.

Getting your truck or rental moving van decapitated by one of the absurdly low overpasses on Boston's Storrow Drive. Happens like clockwork every September 1st — Allston Christmas — when half the city's students move in and at least one of them ignores the seventeen warning signs. The whole city watches the news that night for the annual carnage.

Either the canteen itself, or an inmate operation lending or selling goods for repayment at a markup ('running a store').

Extra time played at the end of each half to make up for stoppages such as injuries and substitutions; also 'injury time'.

The moment the landlord shuts off the beer taps and calls last orders. Pure Welsh-English pub vocab — what the rest of Britain calls 'closing time' or 'last orders'. If you're still ordering pints at stop-tap you're cutting it fine.

stop-and-go lights

A local term for traffic signals, so called because you stop and then go.