The dictionary of street expressions
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Hugues Renaud
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United States
"Bummer. Usually said in phrases such as what a bummer, that's a bummer, or simply just bummer, is a phrase said to express discontent with a situation. Yeah, unfortunately Charles couldn't make it today. Oh no, what happened? He's, uh, he's pretty sick. Aw, bummer!"
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Janna
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United States
"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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Janna
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United States
"I can't, or I can't even, usually just said, you know, the phrase by itself. It basically means, I don't know, when there's something really funny, or shocking, or just overwhelming, you just say, I can't, or I can't even. An example would be, oh my god, there's no way the entire class, a whole hundred people, failed this exam. I can't even."
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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.
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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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