The dictionary of street expressions
There is nothing duller than a dictionary, and nobody with less flair than someone who talks as if they were writing an instruction manual. The fun of talking is in spitting out elegance dressed up as metaphor and surfing the language like a motorbike with no brakes.
Hugues Renaud
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United States
"Having your head up your ass, something you say to or about someone that's being very obtuse, stubborn, or just plain ignorant. Look, I just think what you're saying is a bunch of bullshit. Ugh, you know what? I give up. Nothing I say is getting through to you. You just have your head way up your ass, so come talk to me once you pull it out, all right?"
Janna
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United States
"Bet literally just means okay, deal, or sounds good. An example would be someone approaches you and they're like, hey, you wanna meet up at seven? And you just go like, bet."
Janna
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United States
"Pull up is basically telling someone, you know, to come over, to come to a place, to meet you, you know, in a certain place. An example would be, oh, you didn't hear about the party at 8? Pull up."
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The humans putting the most graft into this dictionary, ranked by their latest contribution. Without them, none of this would sound right.
Every expression lives somewhere. We have laid the dictionary over the map so you can see where each word comes from.
Tap the map and have a wander through the regions, because every corner talks its own way.
Rizz, slay, no cap, mid. The vocabulary that escapes a phone screen and somehow ends up at the dinner table.
Brainrot, doomscrolling, touch grass. Words for people who spend a little too much of their life inside a feed.
GG, noob, rage quit, final boss. The lobby vocabulary that leaked out of the headset and into real life.
Dark academia, quiet luxury, gorpcore. Every look on the internet gets a name, and here they all are.
Knackered, gobsmacked, having a kip. The everyday English of the chippie, the bus stop and the long way home from the pub.
Plastered, bladdered, legless. Every British word for a drink too many, from last orders to the hangxiety.
5.671 voices of the people already ring out in their street dictionary
The Slangtionary is an independent, living archive: 1.989 expressions catalogued across 26 regions, with 257 real voices recorded by people from each area. It is not a translation or a derivative of any other dictionary, it grows by direct contribution.
Every entry starts as a human contribution and goes through a documented editorial review that would rather leave a gap than invent one, and that removes whatever is not living speech. The voices always belong to real people, never AI-generated.
We brownies are those little misunderstood creatures hardly anyone believes in any more. People have forgotten about magic and about the good vibes of the street. And the same happens to the sayings of a lifetime. They get lost when nobody uses them. So our mission is to gather every one of them and keep them with care. Will you help us?
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