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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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Properly fed up, sick of it, at the end of your tether. Stronger than English 'fed up' — carries real weariness and disgust. One of the most-used words in everyday Scots.

A pest, an irritation, or someone who properly winds you up. Can be a person, a situation, or a thing — basically anything that's doing your head in. Classic Scots word still used daily.

To drink a beverage, usually alcoholic, rapidly without pausing. Also spelled 'skull'.

Slang for the Serie A title; the champions wear a small shield badge the following season.

Another South Wales word in the large 'unattractive' family alongside boggin and gompin.

The time-honoured kid's crime of climbing into someone's garden or orchard and pinching fruit off the trees. Apples mostly, but pears and plums count. Less theft, more rite of passage — every Brummie of a certain age has a scrumpin story.

To push the bike or board down and sideways off a jump to kill excess height and speed while staying low and fast, a technique popularized in motocross. Scrubbing keeps a rider fast through rhythm sections.

A hiker's snack mix of nuts, dried fruit, seeds and chocolate carried on tramps.

To avoid work or one's fair share of effort. Northern/British dialect.

An organized practice match between two teams, run like a real game but for training.

Money. Clipped form of scrilla/skrilla. Same meaning, faster to say when you're counting it.

Completely drenched. Northern intensified form of 'wet through'.

To cry, wail or shriek — proper full-volume sobbing, not a quiet sniffle. Most often levelled at kids mid-tantrum.

Houston, Texas — renamed in honour of DJ Screw, the late producer whose chopped-and-screwed mixtapes basically invented the city's sonic identity. Saying Screwston instead of Houston is a quiet loyalty oath to the screw tape, the slab, the lean, the whole movement.

A cassette mixtape made by DJ Screw in his Houston home — slowed-down rap edits, often with freestyles from the Screwed Up Click laid over them. Sold direct out of his house at first, then through Screwed Up Records. Foundational artefacts of Southern rap.

A prison officer, British and Irish slang. Said to come from the old turnkey job — screwing the lock shut. Long-running, still the default inmate term in UK nicks. Not a compliment.

Describes the genuine article of clothing or prop that an actor wore on set, as opposed to a fan-made replica; highly prized by collectors.

A short pass thrown to a receiver or back who has a 'screen' of blockers set up in front, designed to beat an aggressive rush.

screen accurate

Describes a costume that replicates every detail of a character's on-screen appearance, sometimes down to the exact brand and garment used in production.

A dramatic reaction to funny or wild content.

A ferociously struck shot, usually from distance, that shrieks past the goalkeeper before they can react.

Deep-fried, salted pig skin. The defining Black Country pub snack — properly hard, properly salty, with bits of hair that prove they're the real deal. Born in the West Midlands in the 1800s when families slaughtered their own pigs and rendered the skin into something that'd keep on the shelf and sell over the bar.

Welfare or dole money. Old Liverpool term for state benefits — 'on the scratch' means signing on. Used matter-of-factly, no shame attached.

Getting things done cleverly with limited resources.