Results for “slow is smooth and smooth is fast”

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slow is smooth, smooth is fast
phrase

Spec-ops mantra: deliberate execution beats panicked haste.

#military#spec-ops#navy-seal#mantra
slow push
noun

Letting your wave snowball by killing only a few enemy minions, for a big crash later.

#league of legends#moba#wave management#laning
slowdown
noun

Frame-rate drop when the screen's too packed — and shmup players love it.

#shmup#framerate#hardware
slow burn
noun phrase

A romance that takes its sweet time getting going.

#booktok#fanfic#tropes#romance
slowed and throwed
phrase

Houston alt-name for chopped and screwed.

#texas#houston#hip-hop#swishahouse
Slow Fade
noun

Ending things by gradually replying less and less until you've basically disappeared.

#gen-z#dating#internet#texting
fast mover
noun

A jet aircraft — as opposed to helicopters or prop planes.

#military#aviation#vietnam#slang
Bed-and-breakfast
noun

Sell a stock at the close and buy it back at the open to bank a tax loss.

#finance#wall-street#tax#uk
FAST/RIC
noun

The firefighter rescue team standing by to save other firefighters.

#firefighter#fire service#rescue#ems
slide into the DMs
phrase

Smoothly opening a private message, almost always with flirty intent.

#twitter#instagram#flirting#dating
sleekit
adjective

Sly, sneaky, smooth-talking — the kind you don't turn your back on.

#scottish#insult#scotland#scots
sleeveen
noun

A sly, smooth-talking weasel of a person.

#irish#ireland#people#insult
plámás
noun

Smooth-talking flattery; buttering someone up.

#irish#ireland#language#behaviour
Ginnal
noun

Patois for a con artist, trickster, or smooth-talking hustler.

#caribbean
Slick
adjective

Smooth, sharp, and impressively stylish — or smoothly cunning.

#1970s#disco#funk#soul
Sheik
noun

A smooth, romantic young ladies' man of the 1920s, named after Valentino.

#1920s#flapper#jazz-age#prohibition
Fine And Mellow
phrase

Just right, smooth and satisfying, everything as it ought to be.

#harlemese#jive#1930s#harlem-renaissance
Glide
verb

The smooth pitch-bend of an 808 bass — the production move that defines UK drill.

#uk#british#hip-hop#mle
Cake-Eater
noun

A flapper-era dandy, the smooth, idle ladies' man who lived for parties and easy charm.

#1920s#flapper#jazz-age#vintage
Glass Skin
noun

Skin so clear, smooth, and dewy it looks like translucent glass.

#gen-z#internet#american
Chamuyo
noun

Smooth talk, sweet nothings or flat-out BS, depending on who's doing the talking.

#lunfardo#spanish#argentine#tango
DW
phrase

'Don't worry' — the quick reassurance text that smooths things over.

#acronym#texting#british#uk
Finesse
verb

To get something through smooth skill or slick manoeuvring — sometimes by trickery.

#aave#hip-hop#money#street
Buckets
noun

Points scored in basketball, especially the smooth, repeatable kind from a real scorer.

#sports#aave#american#hip-hop
Copacetic
adjective

Everything's fine and in order, a smooth, satisfying word whose origin nobody can fully prove.

#1920s#flapper#jazz-age#vintage
jiggle peek
noun

Flicking in and out of cover fast to bait shots and gather info.

#counter-strike#valorant#fps#info
tagged
verb

Hit by enemy fire, which briefly slows your movement.

#cs2#fps#movement#tactical
dive
noun

A comp of fast heroes that jump on and isolate a single target.

#overwatch#composition#meta#fps
focus fire
verb, noun

Whole team dumping into one enemy so they drop fast.

#fps#moba#teamplay#tactics
wave clear
noun

Wiping a whole minion wave fast, usually with AoE.

#league of legends#moba#laning#minions
red buff
noun

Burn-and-slow buff from the Red Brambleback jungle camp.

#league of legends#moba#jungle#buffs
soft CC
noun

Crowd control that slows you down but doesn't fully stop you.

#moba#league of legends#crowd control
waveclear
noun

How fast and cleanly a hero can wipe out a minion wave.

#moba#laning#minions#league of legends
focus
verb

Piling the whole team's damage onto one target to delete it fast.

#moba#teamfight#target priority#coordination
tick manipulation
noun

Exploiting the game's tick timing to fire off actions faster than normal.

#osrs#skilling#efficiency#game tick
flip
verb, noun

Buying low and selling high fast on the Grand Exchange for quick profit.

#osrs#grand exchange#money making#trading
cranking 90s
verb

Spamming 90-degree build turns to shoot up to high ground fast.

#fortnite#battle royale#building#high ground
melts
verb

A weapon that chews through health and shields stupidly fast.

#battle royale#fps#weapons#damage
Rushdown
noun

An in-your-face archetype that wins by smothering you with fast offense.

#fighting games#archetype#offense#fgc
Hellsweep
noun

A fast sweeping low that's the bread and butter of every Mishima mixup.

#tekken#mishima#low attack
Snake Edge
noun

A slow sweeping low that launches if it lands, but it's a sitting duck on block.

#tekken#low attack#launcher
Magic 4
noun

A fast standing kick that turns a counter-hit into a free combo.

#tekken#counter hit#poke
SHFFL
noun, verb

Short hop, fast fall, L-cancel an aerial — the cleanest, laggiest-free way to throw an air move from the ground in Melee.

#smash bros#melee#tech#fgc
any%
noun

Beat the game as fast as possible, no extra requirements.

#speedrunning#category#retro
gold split
noun

Your fastest-ever time for a single segment.

#speedrunning#timing#personal-best
routing
noun

Working out the fastest path through a game.

#speedrunning#strategy#planning
death warp
noun

Dying on purpose to abuse respawn placement for faster travel.

#speedrun#technique#respawn#warp
marathon strats
noun

Safer, slower strategies you run when consistency beats raw speed.

#speedrun#strategy#gdq#consistency