Results for “stop tap”

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stop-tap
noun

Welsh-English for last orders — closing time at the pub.

#welsh#wales#pub#drinking
tap strafe
verb

Apex movement tech for whipping mid-air into a sharp new direction.

#apex legends#movement#tech
counterstop
noun

Maxing the score counter so it physically can't display any higher.

#shmup#scoring#high-score#retro
screw tape
noun

DJ Screw's slowed-down cassette mixtapes out of Houston.

#texas#houston#hip-hop#dj-screw
Tape bomb
noun

An out-of-nowhere headline that jolts the market mid-session.

#finance#wall-street#trading#news
Painting the tape
phrase

Trading a stock among yourselves to fake volume or move the price.

#finance#wall-street#manipulation#regulation
Fish tape
noun

Flexible spring-steel ribbon used to snake wires through walls and conduit.

#construction#electrical#wiring#tools
Taper
noun

The drywall finisher — tapes and muds the seams.

#construction#drywall#trades#finishing
One-Tap
verb

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

#gaming#american#2000s
counter-strafe
verb

Tapping the opposite move key to stop dead for an accurate shot.

#counter-strike#fps#movement#aim
quickscope
verb

Scope in and fire the instant the crosshair settles — a one-tap in one motion.

#fps#sniping#callofduty#technique
fake defuse
noun

Tapping the bomb to bait hidden enemies into peeking, then punishing them.

#csgo#valorant#tactics#mind game
snowball
verb

Turning a small early lead into an unstoppable one.

#moba#league#macro
soft CC
noun

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

#moba#league of legends#crowd control
disable
noun

Any effect that stops a hero moving, casting, or attacking — stuns, roots, hexes, the lot.

#dota 2#moba#crowd control#stun
deathball
noun

Grouping all five early and rolling through towers as one unstoppable AoE blob.

#dota 2#moba#strategy#teamfight
Ki Charge
noun, verb

Tap all four buttons to power up into a guaranteed counter-hit state.

#tekken#counter hit#taunt
L-cancel
verb

Tapping shield right before you land an aerial to halve its landing lag.

#smash#melee#tech-skill#pressure
quote tweet
noun

Retweeting someone with your own commentary stapled on top — the dunk delivery system.

#twitter#x#engagement#dunking
log off
verb

Affectionate command to stop posting before you make it worse.

#twitter#x#imperative#intervention
idle
adjective

Discord status that flips on automatically when you've stopped touching the app.

#discord#status#internet#chat
book hangover
noun

That emotional fog after finishing a great book — can't start a new one, can't stop thinking about the last one.

#booktok#bookstagram#reading#feels
holup
interjection

Stylised 'hold up' — stop, back up, something just got weird.

#reddit#internet#reaction#meme
GameStonk
noun, proper noun

The 2021 GameStop short-squeeze saga, in stonks-meme form.

#wallstreetbets#gamestop#2021#short-squeeze
BANG
noun, acronym

Meme-stock basket: BlackBerry, AMC, Nokia, GameStop.

#wallstreetbets#2021#meme-stocks#acronym
trabs
noun

Trainers. Scouse, full stop.

#scouse#liverpool#british#fashion
crack on
phrase

Get stuck in. Stop faffing and start.

#scouse#british#northern#phrase
stotty
noun

Big flat round Tyneside bread loaf — a Geordie staple.

#geordie#newcastle#food#bread
flirter
noun

A catapult — Y-stick and elastic, the proper old-school kind.

#brummie#black-country#midlands#toys
get up outta that
phrase

Affectionate Irish 'no way!' / 'stop messing'.

#irish#ireland#hiberno-english#disbelief
spaghetti junction
noun

The tangled I-285/I-85 interchange in northeast Atlanta — landmark and metaphor.

#atlanta#hip-hop#geography#highway
scraper bike
noun

Oakland youth bike with spokes wrapped in coloured duct tape and tinfoil.

#bay-area#oakland#hyphy#bikes
Memphis Underground
phrase

The lo-fi, devilish, tape-deck era of 90s Memphis rap.

#tennessee#memphis#hip-hop#phonk
mirliton
noun

New Orleans name for the chayote — vegetable pear, pantry staple.

#nola#food#creole#louisiana
pass by
verb phrase

To stop in and visit somewhere, not just walk past it.

#nola#yat#dialect#south
huck-a-bucks
noun

Homemade frozen Kool-Aid in a Dixie cup — NOLA summer staple.

#nola#dialect#south#food
jacket
noun

Your prison file — and the reputation stapled to it.

#prison#us#file#reputation
10-100
interjection

Pit stop — pulling over for a bathroom break.

#trucker#cb-radio#ten-code#humor
Alabama chrome
noun phrase

Duct tape doing the job a bodyshop should.

#trucker#cb-radio#repair#duct-tape
Choke and puke
noun phrase

A truck-stop diner with food that earns the name.

#trucker#cb-radio#diner#truck-stop
Lot lizard
noun phrase

A prostitute working the truck-stop lots.

#trucker#cb-radio#truck-stop#sex-work
KVI
noun

Known Value Item — the staple whose price shoppers actually have memorised.

#retail#grocery#pricing#category-management
Crying
verb

Laughing so hard you're metaphorically in tears.

#gen-z#meme#internet#pop
Jalopy
noun

A beat-up, rattletrap old automobile held together by hope and tape.

#1920s#flapper#jazz-age#prohibition
Cark It
phrase

To die, or for a machine to break down completely and stop working.

#aussie#death#phrase
Take A Chill Pill
phrase

A snappy way to tell someone to calm down and stop overreacting.

#80s#american#pop
Living Rent Free
phrase

Something you can't stop thinking about — it occupies your mind without paying rent.

#gen-z#meme#american#texting
Yap
verb

To talk way too much, especially about nothing — a yapper is someone who won't stop running their mouth.

#gen-z#internet#meme#texting