The living dictionary of the streets
We can't be bothered with textbook English. We're all about the pub, the chippy, the corner shop banter. That's where the real language lives, the stuff no dictionary would dare print but everyone gets.
Every place has its own way of chatting rubbish, with its own rhythm and attitude. From a "bloody hell" in London to a "y'all" in Texas. That variety absolutely does our heads in.
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A silent repost is when a post hits way too close, you fully feel it, but you're not trying to publicly stamp your name on that feeling. So instead of actually reposting it, you call it a silent repost. It's big in TikTok and Instagram talk, basically a quiet little same here without putting your emotional laundry on the front porch.
Means show me what this is, plug me into it, or introduce me to something good. You use it when someone’s got a song, spot, style, or food place that’s clearly hitting and you want in. It’s got that friendly recommendation vibe, half curiosity, half demand, like stop gatekeeping and share the sauce already.
You throw this at somebody when they're being absurd, doing the most, or expecting you to treat their nonsense like it deserves applause. It's basically a longer, sharper be serious with side-eye all over it. Perfect for weak excuses, fake-sounding stories, or moments where someone's dragging the drama way past reasonable.
Means someone is really up right now and it's showing. They've got money coming in, people paying attention, doors opening, plans landing, the whole thing. You use it when somebody's not just talking big but actually moving, winning, and getting visible results. If life feels lit, active, and on the rise, that's motion.
A dramatic little tag people tack onto a sentence when they're admitting something is true, usually with reluctant agreement, fake suffering, or a bit of shady praise. It turns the whole line more theatrical and funny. You can drop it at the start or the end when the facts are facting and you've got no graceful escape.
A little pre-confession ritual people say before dropping a weird, embarrassing, or low-stakes truth and asking everybody to keep the shame police off duty. It took off hard online, especially on TikTok, where it became a game for spilling harmless secrets that are equal parts cozy honesty and chaos bait.
A sneaky link is a secret hookup, or the person you're quietly seeing, texting, or linking up with on the low. It's usually romantic or sexual, not public, and kept tucked away from most people. The whole point is the secrecy. It's basically a little undercover situationship with lip gloss on and the location shared to one trusted friend.
Used when someone's coming off extra flamboyant, fruity, or a bit theatrically posed, usually in a teasing way. Online it's often aimed at a guy who's moving, posing, or talking in a way people read as feminine. It can be playful banter, but depending on who's saying it, it can also carry a mean little edge.
A goofy ahh thing looks ridiculous in a funny, roastable way. It's what you say when someone's outfit, shoes, haircut, pose, or whole vibe is so off that it circles round into comedy. Usually playful, a little mean if you push it. It's basically the cleaned-up internet version of goofy ass.
No machine writes the Slangtionary. We build it with real humans recording their voices, and every expression comes with its meaning, its region, real usage examples, its tone and, when known, where it comes from.
Before anything goes live we check it by hand and flesh it out with the real voices of the people who actually use the words. A living field notebook that grows bit by bit.
The humans putting the most graft into this dictionary, ranked by their latest contribution. Without them, none of this would sound right.
Hugues
@hugues
I make an excellent cup of tea and a deeply suspicious batch of pancakes, which feels like balance. I’m weirdly fond of rainy walks, tiny museums, and the sort…
Ollie
@ollie
I make a very decent roast potato, an alarming cup of tea, and tiny paper stars when I’m meant to be doing something useful. I keep a running list of dogs I’ve…
Janna
@janna
I make a cracking cup of tea, terrible pancakes, and surprisingly good paper aeroplanes. I keep meaning to learn the names of the constellations, but mostly I …
Álvaro
@alvaro
Tengo un talento muy concreto, siempre acierto con la fila más lenta del supermercado y de paso hago amistad con cualquiera que lleve unas galletas raras en la…
Haley
@haley
I make a very decent cup of tea, a questionable lasagne, and tiny dramatic speeches to pigeons when I think nobody’s watching. I like old bookshops, seaside ar…
Michael
@michael
I make a cracking cup of tea, ruin most pancakes on the first go, and still act surprised every single time. I’ve named the spider in my bathroom Gerald, we ha…
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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.
12 expressionsKnackered, gobsmacked, having a kip. The English of the pint, the chippie and the long way home from the pub.
20 expressionsArvo, brekkie, fair dinkum. The Australian way of shrinking every word, every name and every sentence by half.
10 expressionsDeadass, mad, hella, bodega. The cadence of every train station, deli counter and stoop in the five boroughs.
7 expressionsBless your heart, fixin' to, y'all. The Southern way of being polite that can also be the most brutal sentence you hear all week.
7 expressionsGrand, gas, eejit, sound. Ireland's small dictionary of warmth, mischief and the gentle art of saying everything is fine when it isn't.
7 expressions4.798 voices of the people already ring out in their street dictionary
The Slangtionary is an independent, living archive: 1.968 expressions catalogued across 26 regions, with 241 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 abstain than invent. The voices always belong to real people, never AI-generated.
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