"UNC. Basically, it's short for uncle. It's used for someone who's older. It's mainly used by, let's say, late teens. So people that are like 16, 17, 18, 19 as well. Just to refer to anyone older than them, even if they're referring to someone who's like 21 or 22. Literally anyone older than you, by just a couple of years, can be an UNC. An example would be, what do you mean you don't have a Timothee Chalamet on your For You page? You're such an UNC."
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"UNC. Basically, it's short for uncle. It's used for someone who's older. It's mainly used by, let's say, late teens. So people that are like 16, 17, 18, 19 as well. Just to refer to anyone older than them, even if they're referring to someone who's like 21 or 22. Literally anyone older than you, by just a couple of years, can be an UNC. An example would be, what do you mean you don't have a Timothee Chalamet on your For You page? You're such an UNC."
"w just a letter w is basically a win so you can say w in the chat w literally just used for anything like you know after winning a game or literally just having like any small accomplishment an example would be oh my god guys i just got my favorite palette and it's literally i got the last piece it was almost sold out w"
"AF, which stands for as fuck, but it's mainly used just AF, is used to just stress on things, you know, like an exaggeration, just, you know, like a, you can say it's synonymous to really, but instead of saying, oh, it's really good, you put the AF at the end. So for an example, it would be, holy shit, did you see my playback there? That was good AF."
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Clock it
Cook
Who pissed in your Cheerios?
Eat your words
Shitting the bed
Grindset
Lore drop
Aurafarming
Done and dusted
Understood the assignment
Batshit insane
Left no crumbs
Fit check
This ain't it
Lore
Peak
I know that's right
I'm crying
Shitfaced
Pack it up
Valid
Tweaking
Soft launch
Get a load of this guy
Cornball
Protect your peace
A win is a win
Your day one
Standing on business
Beige flag
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Gen Z TikTok core
Rizz, slay, no cap, mid. The vocabulary that escapes a phone screen and somehow ends up at the dinner table.
The very online dictionary
Brainrot, doomscrolling, touch grass. Words for people who spend a little too much of their life inside a feed.
Gamer speak
GG, noob, rage quit, final boss. The lobby vocabulary that leaked out of the headset and into real life.
Aesthetics and cores
Dark academia, quiet luxury, gorpcore. Every look on the internet gets a name, and here they all are.
Proper British
Knackered, gobsmacked, having a kip. The everyday English of the chippie, the bus stop and the long way home from the pub.
On the lash
Plastered, bladdered, legless. Every British word for a drink too many, from last orders to the hangxiety.
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