Results for “the lab”

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Labber
noun

A player who lives in training mode digging up tech and combos.

#fgc#training mode#tech#culture
Laburar
verb

Lunfardo for 'to work', lifted straight from Italian immigrants' lavorare.

#lunfardo#spanish#argentine#tango
slab
noun

Houston custom car — Slow, Loud And Bangin' — a candy-painted American luxury sedan on swangas.

#texas#hip-hop#houston#cars
slab Sunday
phrase

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

#texas#houston#slab#cars
Alabama chrome
noun phrase

Duct tape doing the job a bodyshop should.

#trucker#cb-radio#repair#duct-tape
Emotional Labor
noun

The invisible effort of managing feelings and relationships — usually unthanked.

#gen-z#american#texting
Naff Omi
noun

Polari for a dull or unavailable man — 'naff' here meaning ordinary, possibly 'not available for...'.

#polari#lgbtq#british#heritage
rentoid
noun

Sneering landlord-side label for tenants — a renter reduced to a humanoid pest.

#reddit#memes#landlords#irony
howya
phrase

Hello, how are you — collapsed into one syllable.

#irish#dublin#greeting#ireland
4PF
noun

4 Pockets Full — Lil Baby's Atlanta label and crew.

#atlanta#hip-hop#trap#lil-baby
QC
noun

Quality Control — Atlanta's Migos / Lil Baby super-label.

#atlanta#hip-hop#trap#label
ysl
noun

Young Thug's Atlanta label/crew — Young Stoner Life.

#atlanta#hip-hop#trap#label
swangin'
verb

Houston driving style — weaving a slab slow and wide across lanes to be seen.

#texas#hip-hop#houston#cars
swangas
noun

Protruding 30-spoke wire wheels fitted to Houston slabs — also called elbows.

#texas#hip-hop#houston#cars
elbows
noun

Houston name for the long horizontally protruding wire wheels on a slab.

#texas#hip-hop#houston#cars
candy paint
phrase

Translucent wet-look paint job in Skittle-bright colors — the defining finish of a Houston slab.

#texas#hip-hop#houston#cars
wood grain
phrase

Wood-grain steering wheel — a signature interior detail of a Houston slab.

#texas#hip-hop#houston#cars
fifth wheel
noun

The spare tire mounted vertical on the trunk of a Houston slab — chrome, swangin', mandatory.

#texas#houston#hip-hop#car-culture
Indians
noun

Mardi Gras Indians — Black NOLA tribes who mask in elaborate hand-sewn suits.

#nola#mardi-gras#carnival#black-culture
84s
noun

The holy-grail 1984 Cragar wire rims — Houston slab royalty.

#texas#houston#slab#car-culture
wrapped in four vogues
phrase

Rolling on Vogue Tyres — gold-striped whitewalls, slab standard.

#texas#houston#slab#car-culture
grippin' grain
phrase

Hands on the wood-grain wheel — slab driving posture.

#texas#houston#slab#hip-hop
tippin'
verb

Cruising slow in a slab so everybody sees you.

#texas#houston#hip-hop#slab
sittin' sideways
phrase

Swerving a slab side-to-side down the street on purpose.

#texas#houston#slab#cars
draped up and dripped out
phrase

Iced in jewels, rolling in a candy-paint slab — Houston's full-flex setting.

#texas#houston#slab#hip-hop
parking lot pimpin'
phrase

Posting up in a parking lot in your slab to flirt and floss.

#texas#houston#slab#hip-hop
Metroplex
proper noun

Marketing-coined label for the Dallas–Fort Worth metro region.

#dallas#fort-worth#texas#region
the T
noun

Boston's subway and bus system — the MBTA, minus the syllables.

#boston#transit#regional#subway
Blood suckers
noun

Phlebotomists and the lab techs who keep coming for your veins.

#medical#hospital#lab#phlebotomy
CNS-QNS
noun

Mock lab result meaning the patient isn't very bright.

#medical#hospital#abbreviation#insult
whiney primey
phrase

First-time mum who keeps showing up sure she's in labour. She isn't.

#medical#hospital#obstetrics#labour
Status Dramaticus
noun

Fake-Latin label for a patient convinced they're dying when they're fine.

#medical#hospital#ed#mock-latin
hands
noun

Call for any available server to come run food immediately.

#kitchen#expo#restaurant#service
Navvy
noun

A manual labourer, especially on heavy excavation or groundworks.

#construction#trades#british#labourer
Ganger
noun

Foreman in charge of a gang of labourers.

#construction#trades#british#groundworks
Def
adjective

Excellent, the best, top-tier, the word that named a whole record label.

#hip-hop#old-school#1980s#vintage
Sending Me
phrase

Making me laugh uncontrollably.

#gen-z#british#meme#internet
Otaku
noun

Someone obsessively into anime, manga, or games — the original hardcore fan label from Japan.

#anime#meme#gen-z#internet
Word
interjection

An all-purpose 'I agree, for real, truth' — agreement and acknowledgment in one syllable.

#90s#aave#hip-hop#music
Situationship
noun

A romantic relationship that's undefined — more than a fling, but without a clear label or commitment.

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

Verlan for 'femme' (woman/girl) — the standard French syllables flipped, now everyday slang.

#verlan#french#argot#slang-terms