Results for “peak week”

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peak week
noun

The final week of tweaks before a bodybuilding show.

#gym#fitness#contest#conditioning
peaking
verb

Bringing your physique or strength to its absolute best.

#gym#fitness#competition#conditioning
Peak
adjective

In UK slang, unfortunate or a bad situation — though it can also mean the very best in other contexts.

#uk#british#mle#urban-lingo
Dortspeak
noun

The mocking name for the affected South Dublin accent — 'Dublin 4' becomes 'Dortspeak'.

#irish#dublin#accent#class
Death Week
phrase

The August week Memphis fills with Elvis fans marking the anniversary of his death.

#memphis#southern-us#elvis#tourism
Yatspeak
noun

The whole bundle of New Orleans pronunciations and grammar — 'where y'at?'

#nola#yat#new-orleans#dialect
weekend warrior
noun

Someone who only trains hard on weekends.

#gym#fitness#people#consistency
Speakeasy
noun

A hidden illegal bar of the Prohibition era where you spoke easy to get in.

#1920s#flapper#jazz-age#prohibition
Pump And Dump
noun

A scheme to hype a coin up, sell at the peak, and leave latecomers holding the crash.

#money#internet#american#meme
monkaW
interjection

Zoomed monkaS for peak anxiety and tension.

#twitch#emote#tension#streaming
acoustic 18+
adjective

Mature content — open to view.

#tiktok#algospeak#insult#ableist
sybau 18+
interjection

Mature content — open to view.

#tiktok#acronym#gen-z#comments
danger noodle
phrase

Cutesy doggo-speak for a snake.

#reddit#doggolingo#animals#cute
top signal
noun

A moment so unhinged it marks the peak of the market.

#crypto#market#twitter#cycle
scratch
noun

Dole money — the weekly benefits cheque.

#scouse#liverpool#money#british
tip tops
noun

Cheap frozen cordial lollies in a long plastic tube — peak Brummie corner-shop nostalgia.

#brummie#birmingham#food#nostalgia
crachach
noun

The Welsh-speaking establishment elite — Wales's own snob class.

#welsh#wales#class#politics
deuce
noun

A 1962 Impala — peak lowrider chassis.

#la#lowrider#cars#hip-hop
barrio
noun

The neighbourhood — Spanish-speaking, often working-class.

#la#chicano#hip-hop#spanish
ya mom'n'em
phrase

NOLA-speak for 'your mom and the rest of the family'.

#nola#family#southern#everyday
pop-trunk
noun

Remote-popping trunk rigged with neon, amps and speakers.

#texas#houston#slab#car-culture
slab Sunday
phrase

Houston's weekly meet-up where slab owners bring the candy paint out.

#texas#houston#slab#cars
so don't I
phrase

Paradox Boston-speak for 'so do I' — somehow agreeing by negating.

#boston#new-england#regional#grammar
gag / gagging / gagged
verb

To be so stunned by something fierce you can't speak.

#ballroom#drag#lgbtq#rupaul
DOMS
noun

Muscle soreness that peaks a day or two after training.

#gym#fitness#recovery#soreness
deload
noun

A planned easy week to recover from hard training.

#gym#fitness#recovery#programming
dialed in
adjective

In peak, contest-ready condition.

#gym#fitness#physique#conditioning
pocho
noun

Assimilated/Americanized Mexican; Spanglish speaker

#spanish#spanglish#latino#identity
Silent Disco
noun

A party where everyone dances to music through wireless headphones, not speakers.

#american#gen-z
Hyung
noun

Korean for 'older brother' used by men — fandom-speak for the elder male members.

#kpop#korean#pop#fandom
Roxxor
verb

Leetspeak for 'rocks' — to be excellent — using the '-xor' suffix, as in 'j00 r0xx0r'.

#leet#1337#gaming#internet
Cut Whids
phrase

To speak or talk in the cant — and to 'cut bene whids' was to speak fair and friendly.

#thieves-cant#cant#historical#british
Govoreet
verb

Nadsat for to speak or talk, from the Russian 'govorit'.

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

Cheap bootleg liquor, the rough stuff that flowed through Prohibition speakeasies.

#1920s#flapper#jazz-age#prohibition
J00
phrase

Leetspeak for 'you', often paired with taunts like 'j00 got pwned'.

#leet#1337#gaming#internet
Suxxor
verb

Leetspeak for 'sucks' — to be bad — the counterpart to 'roxxor'.

#leet#1337#gaming#internet
Phreak
noun

A phone-system hacker; the 1970s subculture whose 'ph' spelling seeded later leetspeak.

#leet#1337#gaming#internet
El-Rig
noun

Cockney back-slang for 'girl' — 'girl' reversed and split to make it speakable.

#cockney#back-slang#british#uk
Talmbout
verb

A smashed-together way of saying 'talking about' that AAVE speakers use all day.

#aave#american#gen-z#hip-hop
Tubular
adjective

Totally excellent — peak Valley-girl and surfer praise from the Reagan era.

#80s#american#surf#pop