Results for “Speak to the manager”
A hidden illegal bar of the Prohibition era where you spoke easy to get in.
A stereotype of an entitled, demanding person — often a middle-aged woman who wants to "speak to the manager."
A party where everyone dances to music through wireless headphones, not speakers.
Korean for 'older brother' used by men — fandom-speak for the elder male members.
Leetspeak for 'rocks' — to be excellent — using the '-xor' suffix, as in 'j00 r0xx0r'.
To speak or talk in the cant — and to 'cut bene whids' was to speak fair and friendly.
Nadsat for to speak or talk, from the Russian 'govorit'.
Cheap bootleg liquor, the rough stuff that flowed through Prohibition speakeasies.
Leetspeak for 'you', often paired with taunts like 'j00 got pwned'.
Leetspeak for 'sucks' — to be bad — the counterpart to 'roxxor'.
A phone-system hacker; the 1970s subculture whose 'ph' spelling seeded later leetspeak.
Cockney back-slang for 'girl' — 'girl' reversed and split to make it speakable.
A smashed-together way of saying 'talking about' that AAVE speakers use all day.
Leetspeak respelling of 'hacker', often written h4x0r, used admiringly or mockingly.
The limits you set on how people can treat you — therapy-speak's MVP word.
Corporate speak for briefly checking in with someone.
Korean for 'older sister' used by women — fandom-speak for an older female idol.
When an ex or ghost keeps a creepy quiet presence on your socials, watching but never speaking.
Korean for 'older brother' used by women — turned into stan-speak for an older male idol.
Korean for 'older sister' used by men — fandom-speak for an older female idol or fan.
Leetspeak respelling of 'fear', as in the taunt 'phear my 1337 skillz'.
Polari for a policeman — literally a 'searching man', the figure most feared by speakers.
A Prohibition speakeasy dressed up as a sideshow, you paid to see the 'tiger' and got a drink free.
Corporate speak for returning to a topic later.
Algospeak euphemism for 'kill' or 'die', coined to dodge social-media moderation filters.
Manipulating someone into doubting their own memory, perception, or sanity — a therapy-speak term gone mainstream.