Slang Dictionary — Modern Slang, Decoded

A profile a fan runs specifically to post about and promote a celebrity or group, separate from their personal account.

An instruction to wait or hold on. Also 'stall it'.

As a verb, to stall — to screen a thief or to act as cover for the deed.

An air in which the rider grabs the backside (heel) edge of the board with the trailing (back) hand, reaching behind the back leg.

Committing crypto to a proof-of-stake network (or protocol) to support its security or operations in exchange for reward yield. Staked assets are typically locked for a period.

A person or group with an interest in a project's outcome, from users to executives to partners.

Putting your gold or gear on the line in a duel — winner takes the lot. People have built and lost entire banks staking in a single afternoon.

A structure or pier for loading coal from wagons onto ships.

To rob someone — usually a planned hit rather than a random mugging. Common in drill lyrics; the verb form gets used street-side too.

British for IPO flipping. You apply for the float not because you love the company, but because you reckon the first-day pop will be juicy and you'll be out before lunch. A "stag" is the punter, the act is "stagging". Worked beautifully through the Thatcher-era privatisations.

Instead of the whole board standing for re-election every year, directors are split into classes — usually three — and only one class is up at a time. A raider winning a proxy fight needs two annual meetings to flip control, which is exactly the point.

Your slot in the rotation. The DJ calls your name, you do two or three songs on the main stage, then you're off hustling the floor again. The set is the advertisement, the real money comes after, when guys who watched you book private dances.

A spell of guard duty or sentry watch. You're 'on stag' when it's your turn to stand watch — usually two hours on, four off, freezing your nuts off in a sangar at three in the morning. 'Stag on' is also a verb meaning to crack on with a tedious task.

A staff non-commissioned officer — an enlisted Marine of pay grade E-6 or higher (staff sergeant through sergeant major).

"Stacking" means saving up or accumulating money.

The practice of steadily accumulating Bitcoin in small increments (satoshis) over time, often via recurring buys.

Aggro a neutral camp and walk it out of its spawn box right before the spawn timer ticks. The game spawns a brand new camp on top, so now you've got two stacked together to clear at once. Free value if you time it.

Describes someone carrying a lot of well-developed muscle; a compliment on overall build.

To regularly buy and accumulate satoshis (fractions of Bitcoin), a mantra for patient, dollar-cost-average Bitcoin saving.

A targeted marker that drops shared damage. Enough players have to stack on top of it so the hit gets divided between them instead of one-shotting a single target.

Multiple defenders grouping at a single site or chokepoint, anticipating the enemy hits there. A heavy stack shuts a push down hard, but it leaves the rest of the map naked.

A cryptocurrency designed to hold a steady value by pegging to an asset like the US dollar, used for trading, saving, and moving value without volatility. Examples include USDC and USDT.

SSC stands for Safe, Sane and Consensual — the classic three-word standard for ethical BDSM: keep it physically safe, play sane and sober (not impaired or reckless), and make sure everyone fully consents. Coined by David Stein in 1983 for the Gay Male S/M Activists (GMSMA) in New York, partly inspired by being wished a 'safe and sane' Fourth of July, and meant to mark the community off from genuinely predatory, abusive behaviour. It became a rallying slogan and the default ethics shorthand for decades. Its successor RACK (Risk-Aware Consensual Kink, Gary Switch, 1999) pushed back on the word 'sane' and on the idea that anything is ever truly 'safe' — but SSC is still the phrase most people learn first.

An abbreviation of "seriously," used for emphasis or to question something in disbelief.