The dictionary of street expressions
There is nothing duller than a dictionary, and nobody with less flair than someone who talks as if they were writing an instruction manual. The fun of talking is in spitting out elegance dressed up as metaphor and surfing the language like a motorbike with no brakes.
Hugues Renaud
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United States
"Tuff. Derived from the actual word tough, meaning strong and durable, but this time to mean that something is really cool or badass. Oh my God, that was such a fun movie. Optimus Prime's speeches are always so tuff, man."
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Janna
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United States
"You couldn't pay me to blank, so this is something that you'd never do, you'd never agree to do, even if someone pays you to do it, you're not doing that. So an example could be, oh my God, I'll pay you $20 if you stick your hand in the toilet, and then you'd reply, you couldn't pay me to do that, at all."
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Janna
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United States
"Wrap it up. Basically means, you know, it's over, give up, it's done, you know, just leave or give up whatever you're doing. An example would be, Drake, why are you still texting her? She rejected you two times. Wrap it up."
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The humans putting the most graft into this dictionary, ranked by their latest contribution. Without them, none of this would sound right.
Every expression lives somewhere. We have laid the dictionary over the map so you can see where each word comes from.
Tap the map and have a wander through the regions, because every corner talks its own way.
Rizz, slay, no cap, mid. The vocabulary that escapes a phone screen and somehow ends up at the dinner table.
Brainrot, doomscrolling, touch grass. Words for people who spend a little too much of their life inside a feed.
GG, noob, rage quit, final boss. The lobby vocabulary that leaked out of the headset and into real life.
Dark academia, quiet luxury, gorpcore. Every look on the internet gets a name, and here they all are.
Knackered, gobsmacked, having a kip. The everyday English of the chippie, the bus stop and the long way home from the pub.
Plastered, bladdered, legless. Every British word for a drink too many, from last orders to the hangxiety.
5,761 voices of the people already ring out in their street dictionary
The Slangtionary is an independent, living archive: 1,989 expressions catalogued across 26 regions, with 258 real voices recorded by people from each area. It is not a translation or a derivative of any other dictionary, it grows by direct contribution.
Every entry starts as a human contribution and goes through a documented editorial review that would rather leave a gap than invent one, and that removes whatever is not living speech. The voices always belong to real people, never AI-generated.
We brownies are those little misunderstood creatures hardly anyone believes in any more. People have forgotten about magic and about the good vibes of the street. And the same happens to the sayings of a lifetime. They get lost when nobody uses them. So our mission is to gather every one of them and keep them with care. Will you help us?
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