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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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stop the lights

An exclamation of amazement, disbelief or exasperation.

Dust, especially fine household dust or a cloud of it.

The front steps of a house — usually a few concrete or wooden treads straight onto the sidewalk. In NOLA (and plenty of other US cities) the stoop isn't just architecture, it's a venue: where you drink a beer, watch the parade pass, gossip with the neighbours, let the kids run loose in the street. 'Sittin' on the stoop' is a whole activity.

A stool pigeon (or stoolie) is an informer, often one who cooperates with police to spy on other criminals. It carries strong connotations of betrayal.

Deliberate misspelling of 'stocks,' deployed when the market does something gloriously dumb — your meme coin pumps on no news, a bankrupt company 10x's, your puts print in a green day. Comes with the mental image of the Meme Man 'Stonks' guy in a suit pointing at a line going up. Equally usable for wins and absurd losses.

A person who frequently uses cannabis, often as part of their identity or lifestyle.

Being strongly under the influence of cannabis, often sluggish or spaced out.

stone the crows

A Cockney exclamation expressing astonishment or disbelief.

To land a trick or jump cleanly and with total control, so both feet plant firmly and the rider rides away smoothly. It is the opposite of a sketchy or bailed landing.

Very thrilled; showcases the Australian dangling 'as' intensifier.

Figuratively, anything dull, dense, or hard to get through.

Stock rotation is the discipline of putting newly received product behind the older stock so the old stuff sells first — basically FIFO (First In, First Out) at shelf level. Critical in grocery, dairy, and pharmacy where dates kill margin. Skip it and you end up writing off pallets of yoghurt that expired sitting at the back of the cooler.

Steaming drunk to the point you're staggering, bouncing along like a rubber ball. Often 'stoating aboot' — wobbling in and out of the road on the walk hame.

Reeling drunk (staggering/bouncing along); separately, of rain, bouncing hard off the pavement.

An outstanding person or thing; a beauty. A 'pure stoater' is a great specimen.

Drill shorthand for the Black Disciple set at 63rd & St Lawrence — usually said in the same breath as EBT. Home of FBG and ground zero for the long-running war with rival GD blocks like O Block.

A gun. The -izzy suffix (same Snoop-era playbook that gave us fo'shizzle) gets slapped on strap and you've got stizzy. NYC drill rappers wear it out — Pop Smoke, Fivio, Sheff G all stizzy-talking on record.

A young ox or cow between one and two years old.

Prison, as in 'in stir' or 'stir crazy' (driven mad by confinement).

An expression of sympathy for someone's bad luck or a disappointing outcome.

No good, lame or unfortunate. 'Stink one' expresses sympathy or disappointment.

A DIY heating coil — usually two razor blades or bits of metal wired to a stripped power cord — dunked straight into a cup of water to boil it. Cooks noodles, brews coffee, makes the pruno warm. Also a great way to electrocute yourself or set the cell on fire, which is why staff confiscate them on sight.

Affectionate slang for a government stimulus payment, which many retail traders funneled straight into stocks and options during 2020–2021.

Steak so rare the joke is the cow's still alive. Sits below 'blue' on the temperature scale in cook-speak — quick sear, cold red centre. Usually said by the guest as a flex, or by the cook as a warning to the runner not to drop it on the way out.