What's the word on the street? Street slang originates in the housing estates, schoolyards, and youth clubs. It is often a colourful mix of patois and imported words. It also heavily features imported African-Americanisms and borrows from TV and Internet culture.
A and B the C of D
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Above and beyond the call of duty
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Arse
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The backside.
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B in the D
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Back in the Day
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Babe-magnet
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A person (or alternatively a car) that has the power to attract women.
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Bad
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Good
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'That is well bad, innit!' |
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Badman
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Criminal or hard-man
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Balling
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Doing well
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Banger
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Sausage; an old/nearly-broken-down car;
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'We're having bangers for tea this Friday!' |
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Batty Man
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Gay man (offensive).
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Beef Curtains
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Vagina lips, labia
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'I couldn't get my tongue in between her massive Beef Curtains' |
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BF
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Boyfriend
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'I split up with bf three weeks ago but I can't stop thinking about him.' |
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Bitching
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Cool
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Blighty
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Britain
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Blood
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Brother or close friend
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Blud
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Mate, friend
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Bovvered
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Bothered
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'Am I bovvered?' |
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Bredren
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Close friend
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Bro
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Brother
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Bruva from another muther
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Close friend/associate.
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Bugging
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Crazy or strange behaviour
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Caned
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Stoned, high on drugs, or drunk
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Chillax
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Relax, chill out
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'The Prime Minister was Chillaxing at Chequers this weekend.' |
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Choc Ice
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Black person who acts or speaks like a white person
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Chubb
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Cool
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Clunge
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A vagina
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Cool Beans
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Cool; good; OK
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Creps
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Stylish shoes (normally trainers)
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Croydon Facelift
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Female hairstyle
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Cuss
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Insult, defame
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Dappy
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Silly, disorganised, lacking concentration.
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Do
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Party
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'We're having a bit of a do this weekend.' |
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donkey
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Stupid
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Douche Bag
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General insult
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Endz
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Estate, neighbourhood, local area
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'Why you down my endz bruv?' |
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Evils
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A bad/evil/threatening stare; disapproving look
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'You giving me Evils?' |
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Fam
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Family member or close friend
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Feds
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Police
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'Watch out for da feds, blud' |
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Fess
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To own up, to confess
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'Did you steal my mobile? Come on mate, fess up' |
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Filth
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Police
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'Watch out, the Filth are on their way' |
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Fo shizzle
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For sure
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''Are you tokin tonight'? Fo shizzle ' |
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Fugly
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Ugly
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'Wow, that's a Fugly baby' |
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Furry Muff
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Fair enough
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G
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Gangster
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Gash
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Vagina
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'She got a kick in the gash last Friday night' |
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gf
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Girlfriend
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'I split up with my gf a month ago but I can't stop thinking about her.' |
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Hairy Lasso
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The female genitalia
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Hairy Muff
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Fair enough
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'"Can't come out mate, no cash innit" "Hairy Muff then"' |
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Hench
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Muscular, well-built
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Homeboy
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A person who's there for you
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How's it hangin?
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How are you?
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Innit
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Isn't it?
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'Dat is well good innit.' |
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Jaspered
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In a mess, screwed up.
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'Completely and utterly jaspered.' |
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Laters
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Goodbye
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Maccy D's
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McDonald's - the burger chain
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Mashed
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Very drunk. Very high on drugs.
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Meat and Two Veg
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The male genitalia
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Minging
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Ugly, unattractive, horrible
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Monged
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Very drunk. Very high on drugs.
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Mullered
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Very drunk or stoned
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'We was completely mullered last night, mate' |
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Munter
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Ugly or promiscuous woman or girl
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Nang
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Good
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'That's propa nang you get me?' |
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Nark
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Annoy
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'You're really Narking me off today.' |
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Ned
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An uncultured, low-class person
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Nosh
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Food
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Old Skool
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Old fashioned, dated, retro - not necessarily in a bad way.
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Peep Scarf
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Burqa (Muslim headscarf)
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Peng
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Good looking, attractive
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'That girl - is well peng!' |
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Phat
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Very good
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Piff
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Good
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Pinky
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50 pound note
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Plonker
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Idiot
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Poontang
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Sex
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Radge
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Weird, strange
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'That's absolutley radge' |
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Rag Week
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Menstrual period
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Rank
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Awful, very bad, or smelly
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Rocking
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Very good, excellent
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'That car is rocking!' |
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Safe
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Good, OK
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Safe Blood
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Brilliant
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Shank
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To stab with a knife.
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'I'm gonna shank you up!' |
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Sick
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Good
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'That film was sick man!' |
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Skater Hater
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One who annoys or hassles skateboarders
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'Mr. D is a skater hater' |
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Skunk
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Strong cannabis weed
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Slamming
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Attractive, good
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Snough
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Sneeze which sounds like a cough or sneezing and coughing after each other.
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Soz
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Sorry
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'Soz mate, didn't see you there.' |
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Squeeze
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Boyfriend or girlfriend.
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'Where's your squeeze?' |
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Strides
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Trousers
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Stunting
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To show off
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Talk to the Hand
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I'm not listening
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Ting
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Thing
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'What tings did you get from the shop?' |
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Townie
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Uncultured young person, possibly who hangs around in town centres
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Twerking
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A female dance involving shaking your booty up and down so that it jiggles, especially in the direction of a male or a camera.
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Vanessa Feltz
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Fifty pounds
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Vexed
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Stressed
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Wack
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Weak, boring
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'Dat is so Wack, man' |
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Wasteman
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Loser, no-hoper
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'That geezer's a double fass wasteman' |
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Weed
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Marijuana in weed form
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'Colt 45 and two Zig Zags, baby that's all we need. We can go to the park after dark, smoke that tumb' |
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What You Chattin' About?
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Shut up, you're talking rubbish
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Wicked
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Good, excellent
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Wigger
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White person who acts or speaks in a fake black way
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Wonky
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Crooked or ill-balanced.
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'Got the trolley with the wonky wheel again!' |
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Word
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OK/I understand
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You Get Me
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Do you understand?
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