Results for “Civvy Street”

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civvy street
phrase

Civilian life outside the forces.

#military#british-army#civilian#phrase
civvy
noun

A factory-made cigarette, as opposed to a hand-rolled one.

#prison#uk-prison#tobacco#military
face as long as Livery Street
phrase

A right miserable mush — a face dragging on the floor.

#brummie#birmingham#idiom#british
Disney Streets
proper noun

NW Dallas pocket where every street is named after a Disney character.

#dallas#texas#neighborhood#real-estate
The Street
noun

The collective US investment-banking and trading world.

#finance#wall-street#metonym#culture
hawk tuah
phrase

Viral onomatopoeia for a spit, from a street-interview clip heard around the world.

#tiktok#2024#viral#catchphrase
scally
noun

A Liverpool street kid with attitude — tracksuit, swagger, mischief.

#scouse#liverpool#british#people
hoss road
noun

The street. Literally the 'horse road' — the bit where the traffic goes.

#brummie#black country#transport#midlands
gully
adjective

Rough, gritty, street — and that's a compliment.

#mle#london#british#slang
barras
noun

Glasgow's legendary East End street market.

#scottish#glasgow#places#market
wide
adjective

Streetwise, sharp, in the know — nobody pulls one over on you.

#irish#hiberno-english#character#everyday
the trap
noun

The drug-dealing spot, or the street life around it.

#atlanta#hip-hop#trap#drugs
underground
noun

Underground Atlanta — the historic district built below the streets.

#atlanta#hip-hop#geography#downtown
On road
phrase

Out in the streets — hustling, repping, living the road life.

#uk-drill#london#street#hustle
Bricksquad 069
noun

GD set on 69th Street, Englewood — Lil JoJo's crew.

#chicago#drill#gang#hip-hop
069
noun

69th Street, Englewood — Bricksquad's home block.

#chicago#drill#gang#hip-hop
Black Disciples
proper noun

Chicago street organization, split from the Black Gangster Disciple Nation in the '70s; backbone of half the drill scene.

#chicago#drill#hip-hop#gang
Gangster Disciples
proper noun

Chicago street organization founded by Larry Hoover; the other half of the drill beef and the BDs' main rival.

#chicago#drill#hip-hop#gang
sideshow
noun

Impromptu East Oakland parking-lot meet — donuts, ghost-rides, street racing.

#bay-area#oakland#hyphy#cars
turfing
noun

Oakland street dance — gliding, contorting, flexing on the block.

#bay-area#oakland#hip-hop#dance
jerkin'
verb

LA's late-2000s street dance and rap scene — skinny jeans, snapbacks, the reject.

#la#dance#hip-hop#inland-empire
act
noun

Street name for Actavis promethazine codeine — the holy grail of lean ingredients.

#texas#hip-hop#drugs#lean
go cup
noun

Plastic cup for taking your drink onto the street — legal in NOLA.

#nola#drinking#southern#bourbon-street
sittin' sideways
phrase

Swerving a slab side-to-side down the street on purpose.

#texas#houston#slab#cars
Kuykendahl
proper noun

North Houston street whose 'Kirk-en-doll' pronunciation outs you as local or tourist.

#houston#texas#geography#shibboleth
San Quilmas
proper noun

Caló nickname for San Antonio, originally street slang for the county jail.

#san-antonio#texas#chicano#calo
shotting
verb

UK street slang for dealing drugs.

#uk-drill#london#drugs#mle
diligent
adjective

Solid, dependable in the streets — a real one who shows up.

#uk-drill#london#praise#street
Big Swinging Dick 18+
noun

Mature content — open to view.

#finance#wall-street#salomon#liars-poker
kerb crawler
noun

A driver trawling the streets for a sex worker from behind the wheel.

#sex-work#british#street#punter
stroll
noun

The block or strip where street-based sex workers find clients.

#sex-work#street#outreach#harm-reduction
new jack
noun

A rookie — fresh out of the academy with no time on the street.

#police#rookie#slang#new york
Pull Up
verb

To rise into a jumper off the dribble — or, in street slang, to show up somewhere.

#sports#aave#american#gen-z
Trenches
noun

The riskiest, wildest frontier of crypto — hunting new memecoins and speculative launches; also street slang for a rough area.

#crypto#street#internet#money
Demon Time
phrase

Late-night reckless energy — going hard, on a track or in the streets.

#american#uk#hip-hop#gen-z
Roadman
noun

A UK term for a streetwise young man tied to road culture; can be respect or mockery.

#british#uk#mle
Pagan
noun

UK street slang for a disloyal, untrustworthy person, or a fake friend.

#british#uk#mle
Riddim
noun

An instrumental or beat — Jamaican-derived word that runs through UK street music.

#uk#british#hip-hop#mle
Don
noun

UK street slang for a respected, top-tier person; the boss or main man.

#british#uk#mle
Wagwan
phrase

The UK street spelling of 'wha gwaan' — a casual 'what's up' greeting.

#uk#mle#caribbean