Results for “ngl”

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NGL
phrase

Not Gonna Lie — bracing someone for an honest, often blunt admission.

#acronym#internet#texting#gen-z
Angler
noun

A thief who 'fished' goods through open windows with a hooked pole by night.

#thieves-cant#cant#historical#british
Pluh
interjection

A meaningless brainrot sound used as a dismissive or playful tag at the end of a sentence.

#gen-z#alpha#tiktok#meme
Canthal Tilt
noun

The upward or downward angle of your eyes — looksmaxxers obsess over a 'positive' one.

#gen-z#internet#meme#american
Skibidi
adjective

A meaningless brainrot filler word from Skibidi Toilet, used to mean good, bad, or just for chaos.

#gen-z#alpha#tiktok#meme
Foxy
adjective

Describing someone strikingly attractive, stylish, and alluring.

#1970s#disco#funk#soul
Sub Or Dub
phrase

The eternal anime debate: watch with subtitles and Japanese audio, or with an English dub.

#anime#meme#gen-z#internet
Mansplain
verb

When a man explains something condescendingly, often to a woman who already knows it.

#gen-z#internet#meme#pop
Groovy
adjective

Excellent, cool, or pleasingly in tune with the moment.

#1960s#hippie#counterculture#vintage
Clock In
verb

To start working — also used jokingly for showing up to do anything.

#gen-z#money#aave#internet
Bombshell
noun

A jaw-droppingly glamorous, knockout-gorgeous woman — old-Hollywood energy.

#50s#american#y2k
Haxor
noun

Leetspeak respelling of 'hacker', often written h4x0r, used admiringly or mockingly.

#leet#1337#gaming#internet
Carry
verb

To single-handedly drag your team to victory.

#gaming#gen-z#american
Blow Your Wig
phrase

To lose your composure — get wildly excited, blown away, or come unglued.

#beatnik#1950s#beat-generation#vintage
Droog
noun

A Nadsat word for a friend or running mate, anglicised from the Russian for friend.

#nadsat#clockwork-orange#fictional#literary
Nowt
noun

Northern English for 'nothing'.

#british#uk#northern-english
Emotional Support
noun

Comfort someone gives you — or, jokingly, the random object you can't function without.

#gen-z#american#meme#texting
Mint
adjective

Northern English for excellent, brilliant, or top quality.

#british#uk#northern-english
Stunner
noun

A compliment for someone strikingly beautiful, so good-looking they stop you in your tracks.

#british#uk#american
🤨
interjection

The single raised eyebrow — skepticism, suspicion, or 'are you serious right now?'

#gen-z#texting#meme
One-Tap
verb

To kill an enemy with a single precise shot, usually to the head.

#gaming#american#2000s
Cuffing Season
noun

The colder months when single people want to couple up and settle down for the winter.

#gen-z#dating#internet#relationships
Realness
noun

A ballroom category judged on how convincingly you embody a real-world look or role.

#aave#lgbtq#ballroom#drag
Sunnies
noun

Sunglasses — Australian (and British) diminutive slang.

#aussie#australian
Pr0n 18+
noun

Mature content — open to view.

#leet#1337#gaming#internet
Mortified
adjective

Cripplingly embarrassed — the Irish go-to for social mortification.

#irish#uk
Ace
noun

Killing the entire enemy team yourself in a single round.

#gaming#american#2000s
Chanme
adjective

Verlan for 'mechant' (wicked) — flipped to mean awesome or sick, like English 'wicked'.

#verlan#french#argot#slang-terms
Chad
noun

A confident, attractive, successful guy — used admiringly or ironically depending on context.

#gen-z#meme#internet#gym
Big Back
noun

A playful (or insulting) way to call someone greedy or overweight — often used self-deprecatingly about overeating.

#gen-z#internet#meme#food
Hotsy-Totsy
adjective

Jazz Age for just right, pleasing, or pleasingly attractive, everything's swell.

#1920s#flapper#jazz-age#vintage
Triggered
adjective

Set off emotionally — either genuinely distressed or, mockingly, mildly annoyed.

#gen-z#american#meme#texting
Plonk
noun

Cheap, ordinary wine — British slang born from WWI soldiers mangling 'vin blanc'.

#british#uk#money#slang
Gobbledygook
noun

Wordy, pompous, meaningless jargon — coined in 1944 by a fed-up congressman sick of bureaucratic babble.

#1940s#wartime#swing#vintage
Delusional Confidence
phrase

Extreme self belief that seems disconnected from reality, often used jokingly and sometimes admiringly.

#gen-z#meme#dating#internet
Bairn
noun

A child or baby — used across Scotland and the northeast of England.

#scottish#british#uk
Ginnel
noun

A narrow passage or alleyway between buildings — northern English.

#british#uk#northern-english
Mardy
adjective

Sulky, moody, or in a strop — Midlands and northern English.

#british#uk#northern-english
Culchie
noun

A person from rural Ireland, as seen (often teasingly) by Dubliners.

#irish
Freestyle
noun

Rapping off the top of your head — or, confusingly, just a loosely-themed track.

#american#uk#hip-hop#aave
Gulliver
noun

Nadsat for the head, anglicised from the Russian 'golova'.

#nadsat#clockwork-orange#fictional#literary
Darkmans
noun

The night, in the cant — when the angler hooked windows and the prig went to work.

#thieves-cant#cant#historical#british
Thicc 18+
adjective

Mature content — open to view.

#aave#american#meme#gen-z