Results for “work”

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worky ticket
noun

Geordie for someone deliberately winding people up.

#geordie#newcastle#north-east#british
Working on the lump
phrase

Getting paid gross cash with no tax, no NI, and no employment rights.

#construction#trades#british#tax
paperwork
noun

Your court docs — and proof you're not a nonce or a snitch.

#prison#us#snitch#convict-code
floor work
noun

Dance routine done lying, kneeling or rolling on the stage floor.

#sex-work#strip-club#pole
floorwork
noun

The vogue element of working the floor — rolling, arching, posing low.

#ballroom#vogue#lgbtq#voguefem
woodworking
verb

Blending into society so fully your trans status is unknown.

#trans#lgbtq#passing#stealth
Burnout
noun

Total physical and mental exhaustion from prolonged stress, usually work.

#gen-z#mental-health#money#internet
routing
noun

Working out the fastest path through a game.

#speedrunning#strategy#planning
frame-perfect
adjective

An input that only works if you hit it on one exact frame.

#speedrun#frame#precision#technique
marquee
noun

The lit-up artwork sign crowning an arcade cabinet.

#arcade#cabinet#retro#hardware
SFW
adjective

Safe for work — the wholesome inverse of NSFW.

#discord#abbreviation#content#moderation
Gone Wild 18+
proper noun

Mature content — open to view.

#reddit#nsfw#communities#internet-culture
ape
verb

Buy in fast and hard without doing the homework.

#crypto#nft#wallstreetbets#trading
sagging off
phrase

Scouse for skiving — bunking off school or work.

#scouse#liverpool#school#british
snout
noun

Prison and working-class British slang for a cigarette.

#geordie#british#smoking#slang
graft
noun

Hard work. Proper sleeves-up effort.

#geordie#north-east#british#work
sharra
noun

A motor coach — the kind you book for a works outing or a day at the seaside.

#brummie#black country#transport#midlands
bossman
noun

Address for a shopkeeper or service worker.

#mle#london#british#address
dosser
noun

A skiver. Someone who'll do anything except work.

#irish#hiberno-english#insult#ireland
skanger
noun

Dublin's word for a chav — tracksuited, gobby, working-class stereotype.

#irish#dublin#hiberno-english#insult
sucking diesel
phrase

Now we're getting somewhere — things finally working.

#irish#ireland#phrase#approval
Drilling
verb

Going at opps — attacking, invading rival blocks, putting in work.

#nyc#hip-hop#drill#violence
Cheffed
verb

Stabbed up — knife work, drill-scene shorthand.

#nyc#drill#hip-hop#violence
hittin' switches
phrase

Working a lowrider's hydraulic switches to bounce the car.

#la#lowrider#hip-hop#chicano
clowning
verb

Showing off in a lowrider — switches, three-wheeling, the works.

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

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

#la#chicano#hip-hop#spanish
Ersters
noun

Oysters, in the thick Yat accent of working-class New Orleans.

#nola#yat#food#dialect
the Tunnels
proper noun

Underground pedestrian network beneath downtown Dallas.

#dallas#texas#downtown#infrastructure
citiot
noun

A city dweller who shows up to a small town clueless about how things work.

#midwest#michigan#rural#insult
swampers
noun

Rubber-bottomed, leather-topped winter work boots — U.P. uniform.

#midwest#yooper#upper-peninsula#clothing
leggin it
phrase

Running away. Feet doing the work.

#uk-drill#london#british-slang#escape
bumf
noun

Useless paperwork — admin you'll never read.

#military#british-army#raf#admin
oppo
noun

Your opposite number — close mate at work.

#military#royal-navy#british-army#mate
deck ape
noun

An undesignated seaman doing grunt work on the deck force.

#military#navy#deck-force#rate
Blamestorming
noun

A meeting held purely to work out whose fault the disaster was.

#medical#hospital#corporate#meetings
on the line
phrase

Working the cook stations behind the pass during service.

#kitchen#boh#restaurant#service
Lot lizard
noun phrase

A prostitute working the truck-stop lots.

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

The tiered ring on an exchange floor where open-outcry traders work.

#finance#wall-street#trading#floor
Navvy
noun

A manual labourer, especially on heavy excavation or groundworks.

#construction#trades#british#labourer
Banker
noun

A mason who cuts and shapes building stone at a workbench.

#construction#masonry#stonework#trades
Tinknocker
noun

A sheet-metal worker — ducting, flashing, anything bent from sheet.

#construction#sheet-metal#hvac#trades
Rodbuster
noun

Ironworker who ties rebar — the steel skeleton inside concrete.

#construction#ironwork#rebar#trades
Madisons
noun

Metal straps that hold an old-work electrical box into drywall.

#construction#electrical#drywall#tools
Cherry picker
noun

A truck-mounted bucket lift for working at height.

#construction#electrical#lineman#equipment
Scab
noun

A worker who crosses a picket line, or a non-union hand on a union job.

#construction#trades#union#labor
Tin basher
noun

Sheet metal worker — anyone fabbing or fitting ductwork and metal.

#construction#sheet-metal#hvac#trades
Sand hog
noun

Tunnel worker — the crew digging underground and underwater.

#construction#tunneling#trades#nyc
punter
noun

British slang for a sex worker's client.

#sex-work#british#slang#vice