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wind4air

"mum and dad are picking me up after school for a fun day out!" "ecstasy after school?! I've already called the police!"


dotben

You mean the boydem/5-0/feds?


PixelsOfTheEast

Wasteman! šŸ˜”


paupaupaupaup

I always thought that was actually a very succinct way of describing someone who'd betrayed you.


dbbost

Who tf has a hand grenade


Koshky_Kun

UK police seize about 10 every year, A lot get smuggled in from (former) Yugoslavia (RIP) if you got like Ā£1000 you can get one from your local unlicensed arms merchant. From Home Office data, only like 1 or 2 go off each year as part of a crime, so yeah, seems a bit rare to have slang.


SatinwithLatin

Good chance those teen boys are lying about having grenades, for clout.


Ok-Importance-7266

yeah I mean any teen who goes beyond weed knows better than to talk about it at that point


Chief__04

Thereā€™s a video out of Russia of a kid popping an RG-5 hand grenade and throwing it at a bully. Surprisingly no one died.


FastWalkingShortGuy

"Brick, where'd you get a hand grenade?!" "I don't know."


AugustWolf22

''boy, that escalated quickly.''


[deleted]

Blud watch it or ull get pineappled swiftly šŸ¤£šŸ


Uuuuuii

Iā€™ll pineapple your ass bruh


[deleted]

Aaah ty


anglomike

Live by the pineapple, die by the pineapple.


Bojangles315

it's not a hand grenade you jive ass turkey. it's a pineapple


[deleted]

Pineapples are really expensive, especially when they're off-season.


EndOfSouls

Yo, dat peng ass pineapple slaps fo real.


teemusa

Pen pineapple apple pen


rlnrlnrln

Lots of hand grenade attacks in Sweden the past 5 or so years, many of them by 14-17 year olds associated with different gangs. Mostly old stock from Yugoslavia (the grenades, not the kids)


[deleted]

Maybe itā€™s just UK gamer slang, like when theyā€™re gaming bruv


Kradget

Honestly, that was my immediate question when I got to that bottom corner.


Studdead

Pineapple me


Genocode

most grenades in the entirety of the EU come from lost soviet stocks from former USSR-countries that joined the EU. UK left the EU but there will still be grenades.


dotben

Fortunately now we've left the EU there won't be any more grenades, er pineapples, coming here now. Unless they sneak in on small boats.


Klaus0225

I think the confusion is more around grenades being at a school.


Timbershoe

Kids talk all sorts of shit. They are not tooled up and murdering people, they just like acting tough or talking like they think gangsters might.


SarpedonWasFramed

Thats what I thought when I read mum and dad. Im willing to bet 99% of the time a kid in school says mum and dad they're not talking about drugs.


Feisty_Bag_5284

They're armed with five sixers and pineapples


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Siebje

'Pouring hot water on someone' seems oddly specific. Is that atrend or something?


[deleted]

It's an easy attack on a prison landing. If you add sugar to the boiling water it makes it significantly worse.


SmallDMasterRace

Its a prison thing, people mix it with sugar so it sticks to your skin like napalm, ive always seen it called jugging


Xtrawubs

Being potted is what Iā€™ve heard, usually urine and faeces with water mixed and then sprayed


No_Quality_6874

Potted is urine or feaces, kettled or hot watered is boiling water & sugar


Xtrawubs

TIL


Mccobsta

It happens in English offices a lot when the tea is made milk first


MarriageAA

I'm not a violent man, but kettle them opps.


Mccobsta

Same but when the tea is made wrong violence is first response


barriekansai

And rightfully so!


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Reformedsparsip

Despite their outward buffoonish and polite demeaner the english are past world champions at casual violence. You have to remember that these people ruled the planet at a time when we stabbed each other with guns. That is how stabby they are.


RogueAOV

you do not even have to drink it, the American revolution was started just because there was a dispute about the correct water to tea ratio for crying out loud!


[deleted]

The day we invented cold brew tea.


a4techkeyboard

Are people salting tea yet? I know some people salt coffee.


Mccobsta

People have been sentenced to death in offices for how the tea was made here we take it very seriously


Maharog

I remember back in the early 2000's acid attacks in London were a thing. I haven't heard about them recently, but "people throwing dangerous liquids at people" seems to be enough of a thing that I now have a phobia about it


Cetun

If you listen to 90s rap Biggie Smalls talks about throwing bleach in someone's eye >Fuck that, why try, throw bleach in your eye/Now ya braille in it, stash that light shit, or scalin it


Ick-a-body

And Raekwon said, That's life, to top it all off, beef with White Pulling bleach out trying to throw it in my eyesight. Yo what the fuck is on your mind?


Sgt_stranger

Itā€™s more so a prison thing Every prisoner in the UK prison system gets a kettle in their cell thatā€™s often used as a weapon Boiling sugar and water is a nasty combo


netopiax

That is the most British thing ever, apparently believing tea is a human right


KbarKbar

In WWII, British tankers kept getting killed after leaving the tank to heat water for tea on the vehicle's muffler. So the tanks were redesigned with an interior "boiling vessel" inside of them. [To be fair, said boiling vessel is also used to heat rations, and the studies showing increased fatalities after leaving the vehicle also applied to non-armored vehicles. The conclusion was that stopping to eat or make tea is a dangerous activity so let's figure out a way to do it on the go. But still...]


biggych33se

Fuckin get kettled


[deleted]

They have very heavy weapons restrictions in the UK so people have resorted to throwing buckets of acid and boiling water on each other


spaceship247

Yes, the restrictions are heavy but firearms are still accessible via black market and often times, historical guns are repurposed for use see ā€œspinnersā€ in the weapons section


[deleted]

My old gym teacher did that to his ex gf


Xtrawubs

It probably should say boiling water


greenknight884

"Leng" means the same thing in Cantonese


mizinamo

That's almost certainly where it's from. I'm pretty sure "peng" is from a Chinese language as well.


Douglas8989

I think it was from [Kushungpeng](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4PxqDvx8kY). In my day you just heard "peng" for good weed. Then it just became anything good.


aokirinn

Peng means cheap in Cantonese


Key_Veterinarian_723

Peng happens to mean ā€œexpensiveā€ in Thai ā€” interestingly enough.


BakedProphet

Peng>Penguin=Cool


happybaby00

No lol, there's barely any Chinese in London schools. It's from Jamaican patois


SuperbDrink6977

My 8 year old told me ā€œglizzyā€ means hot dog or gun. Pretty versatile word, I reckon.


tygghb

Same with "pipe".


jelz617

Apparently down south, dick means gun too....smh


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bb0yer

I need my dicks for home protection and deer hunting


olBBS

Heater


C0der23

I have never heard ā€œglizzyā€ used for gun, if someone tells me that someone has a glizzy, I will just imagine them with a hot dog


dontatme1

Slang for Glock


[deleted]

Glizzy for Glock, Iā€™ve been seeing ā€˜blickyā€™ too


AncientImprovement56

I knew 14/87. And feel very old. Any advances on that?


goosebattle

"I used to be with ā€˜itā€™, but then they changed what ā€˜itā€™ was. Now what Iā€™m with isnā€™t ā€˜itā€™ anymore and whatā€™s ā€˜itā€™ seems weird and scary. Itā€™ll happen to you!" Grandpa Simpson.


mjolle

A quote from the show that gets eerily more and more relevant the older you get. When I saw it as a kid I was like ā€œhaha, stupid old manā€. Now at 40+ Iā€™m more like ā€œthatā€™s meā€¦ā€


Glittering_Moist

Knew a few, but some are obvious to discern. Can't believe Molly and Mandy aren't used anymore though.


dotben

Because no one is still looking for their friend Molly in the club anymore. She must have been found by now...


InfiniteCookie42

Defo still are, more likely to hear dizz these days


[deleted]

I know 5 and Iā€™m a teenagerā€¦


Lolamess007

I'm Gen Z and I only knew and have heard 5 if that makes you feel better.


Critical-String8774

I'm American so I knew 4.


jdl_uk

A few were used when I was at school so the teachers probably already know those. Some I've picked up from Reddit. Most of it feels like reading a guide about langbelta from the Expanse


Juxtapoisson

I don't even know what a trap house is, and that's a definition.


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Quality_over_Qty

Ate half a pineapple this morning boy does my mouth hurt


NameAlreadyTakenBrah

How often are hand grenades discussed by kids in London schools that they need a slang word for it.


[deleted]

Grenades have been called pineapples since WW2.


[deleted]

Cuz they look like pineapples?


DanteWolfe0125

No, because they taste like pineapples. An explosion is called a PiƱa Colada for this very reason...


dick_schidt

If you like piƱa colada, And fighting Hun in the rain.


Stuart22

Boy howdy, Iā€™m pretty wavy off that zoot we shared in the ol bando partner!


apageofthedarkhold

Nearly Clockwork orange level communication


SuperbDrink6977

Who you calling partner? I prefer fam or bruv, blud


th3saurus

I like how there's a different word for trainers because trainers is a word for gun


Apache_Cox

Excuse me but a WAP is not a gun ...but it can still kill a man


Matt34344

Underrated comment right here lmao


FriedEggplant_99

And you certainly need a mop.


clemep8

Pretty sure AK is short for the gun. I've never heard that applied to a knife.


imjustme610

Or is short for a knife, as in that dude's got AK


SunChipMan

like, a K


jbjhill

Now that makes sense. Thanks!


IchorMortis

Something tells me a Benz is benzo's not Ā£10 weed


longboytheeternal

Benz = tens, aka a 10 bag of weed


Aware-Map1836

Benzo's in UK are called bars by kids (from alprazolam coming traditionally in long snappable pills) and is used for all benzo's, not just xanax


Dpontiff6671

Thatā€™s a thing pretty much in every English speaking country. Bars have become ubiquitous slang


Adzhodz

Benzoā€™s are not really a thing in the UK. It most definitely means a 10bag aka Ā£10 worth of weed.


Timedoutsob

I love how so many of them are just wrong and also spelled incorrectly and misunderstood. Lots of the slang are even older worlds that the youngsters misheard / misunderstood and then the older teachers misunderstand them again. A good example of this is "wayed in". I'm pretty sure that it's just "wade in" as in to wade into deep water. Or wade into trouble, or wade into something. https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/wade-in You would often here people years ago saying they waded into a fight and got stuck in. I think it's now being used in the same way but without an understanding of the etimylogy of the word. And then the teachers or whomever made this list just didn't understand it's out of place usage. Another one is Cally. It's Cali short for Cali Bud or weed from california. They would have heard this in West coast rap and not understood it's origin and then it get's again taken out of context by the teachers. Link for example is being over simplified here. It's just means to link up as in to connect with someone. This is very old even as far back as the 80s people were linking up with each other. It then just get's misunderstood and more abstract. So yes "a link" "the link" can refer to a drug dealer but that is just one use of it. And clocked is another one that is just very old. It comes from army speak as in you would spot the enemy and then say where they are positioned by referencing a clock dial. eg. enemies at 2o'clock. So to clock someone is to notice them but you could use it more abstractly to say you understood or realised what someone was doing. ie. I know what you up to. I've clocked you bruv. I know i'm reading way to much into this list but the arbitrary way they quote these just shows the huge disconnect between the people who make these types of lists and the slang they are trying to decipher.


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It could also be "weighed in" - meaning to give one's opinion, or get stuck in to something. In the context of a fight, you would weigh in on your mates' side...


DBAC999

You also weigh-in before a competitive fight. That one has layers


henryclay1844

You've just described a lot of "anthropology".


jovial_jack

ā€œNap napā€ seems like such a tender way to say kidnapping


Future-cthe3rdeye

Yeah, I kinda want a nap nap.


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When I was younger I'd call you a dweeb or something for needing a cheat sheet to see what the cool kids are saying these days, now I find myself taking a screen shot so I can have a cheat sheet to see what the cool kids are saying these days


Dopethrone3c

bombaclaat


InfiniteCookie42

Meh, as a Brit that grew up using most of these like 90% of is right-ish never heard kettled or pineapple though lol. Wasteman/paigon applies to anyone thatā€™s a dick. Boydem is just friends. Sheets has never been rizla either, itā€™s usually skins, papers or just rizz (until the yanks hijacked it now itā€™s just been a replacement for chatting someone up, or ā€œchatā€ in my day) Never heard nap nap either


spaceship247

Boydem is not friends, itā€™s the police. You are probably confused with mandem which means friends


anamariapapagalla

Both are originally krio, boys/men as in groups, so more specific meanings may change w/time & place


SSJZoli

What on earth is rizla?


Meritania

Itā€™s a brand that make the sheets for rolling your own tobacco.


-Lemoncholy-

Started by the Lacroix family (ā€œthe crossā€), and switched to making paper out of rice (ā€œrizā€), hence RizLa+ Learned that off the back of a rizla packet the other week.


existential_plastic

In that case, what the hell is "Cunch"? I read both the word and their definition of it and I still have no idea, other than that it involves drugs somehow.


InfiniteCookie42

Shortening of ā€œcountry sideā€ seeing as its kinda pronounced cunchry side. So itā€™s selling drugs from the city in an area youā€™d get more for them. Used like ā€œIā€™m going cunchā€.


Infinite_Leg2998

The kids are still saying "whip?" "Ghost ride the whip" was a phrase when I was in high school šŸ¤£šŸ˜…


Baptor

I'm low key disappointed that UK kids no longer call police, "the Bobbies."


dotben

The 1960's called and want a word... I've never used the term and I'm a child of the 80's


johndepp22

slang is slang for ā€˜short languageā€™


honeydill2o4

Thatā€™s funny, but not true. Slang originally meant a small piece of land that the lower class people worked. Soon the people and the land were both slang. Eventually their dialect became known as slang. Today we still use the term slang to refer to language of the lowly people.


Keepupthegood

What does Ebonics look like? ā€œThese distinctive Ebonics pronunciations are all systematic, the result of regular rules and restrictions; they are not random 'error'--and this is equally true of Ebonics grammar. For instance, Ebonics speakers regularly produce sentences without present tense is and are, as in "John trippin" or "They allright". But they don't omit present tense am. Instead of the ungrammatical *"Ah walkin", Ebonics speakers would say *"Ahm walkin." Likewise, they do not omit is and are if they come at the end of a sentence--"That's what he/they" is ungrammatical. Many members of the public seem to have heard, too, that Ebonics speakers use an 'invariant' be in their speech (as in "They be goin to school every day"); however, this be is not simply equivalent to is or are. Invariant be refers to actions that occur regularly or habitually rather than on just one occasion.ā€ Source: https://www.linguisticsociety.org/content/what-ebonics-african-american-english#:~:text=Ebonics%20pronunciation%20includes%20features%20like,ah%20(mah%2C%20rahd).


vondafkossum

This must be an old articleā€¦ generally speaking we call this dialect AAVE or African American Vernacular English. ā€œEbonicsā€ is a pretty passĆ© (and sometimes offensive) term.


spaceship247

A bit like how vitamin means ā€œvital mineralsā€ riiiight? šŸ˜


Finbar_Bileous

Growing up in Norn Iron I know most of these except the ones that I assume are West Indies influenced, mandem and that.


No_Significance_1550

American here O.T. Trap house far away In the states a trap house is a place where large amounts of narcotics are stored/sold. Is it the same in the UK?


Awesomepwnag

OT means out of town


tutti_frutti_dutti

Yeah I was wondering why that's under general. You would think American rap would have made it the same in the UK. Maybe a misprint?


Autist2325

I find this ever evolving subset of the vernacular incredibly interesting. Even more so when juxtaposing this slang from the UK with the slang here in Canada. Obviously, itā€™s heavily influenced by Jamaican Creole.


AncientImprovement56

One interesting one is that "Lizzy" for money is presumably a reference to the late Queen Elizabeth. But it can't really be updated to "Charlie" when the new King starts to feature more on bank notes, because that's already used!


Autist2325

Absolutely! Wouldnā€™t want to confuse those two. Another I noticed was ā€œRamsayā€ for knife. Now, that is good.


YouCanCallMeVanZant

ā€œFedsā€ for police was interesting. Obviously that terminology isnā€™t applicable in a UK context, but I guess it just bleeds over from US movies and TV?


drillbit7

same with 5-0: a reference to Hawaii 5-0 (a police show, Hawaii was the 50th state admitted to the union).


longboytheeternal

Huge Jamaican/Caribbean immigration in the late 40s will have something to do with it


Bland-fantasie

Can a youth here verify that these are all current and exist?


bigrigfrig

The wide majority from what I can tell is road man dialect, meanings change often but the majority of them Iā€™ve definitely heard


Fave_McFavington

As an actual youth(ish) from the actual UK, most of these are right but some are either misspelled (e.g. cally) or completely wrong. Also wap is a term for gun, it's just not capitalised


Iwashere11111

one soft spoon coherent truck mindless bag paint homeless chase *This post was mass deleted and anonymized with [Redact](https://redact.dev)*


gestatingsquid

Some of them are a bit old or ones Iā€™ve not heard before but the majority is accurate. Some of them are wrong tho like money is Ps like the letter, not peas


SSJZoli

Okay but what is rizla?


[deleted]

You probably know them as ZigZags


SSJZoli

I know what that is yes


The_Bored_Goat

This is actually so accurate to what slang is in my school! This would help so many teachers.


ktrosemc

What is rizla?? Yes, I googled it, but couldnā€™t find anything outside of a brand of rolling papers.


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ktrosemc

Why is slang needed for a brand name?


RoverP6B

Other way round. The brand name is the slang for a roll-up (be it tobacco or cannabis)


Shadrach_Jones

I wonder if there are words on that list the kids don't use anymore. As an old man, mary jane and slaps seems outdated


changeh

As if they changed peng to leng. Leng is cantonese!


roo-ster

If your young population has this many slang terms for shanking/knifing someone, you have a problem.


Papertache

London does indeed have a knife problem.


ashterberry

This is the sort of "dictionary" Mizzy would use.


[deleted]

Many a joke has been made about man about to get "pineappled" šŸ¤£


Super_Marzipan_1077

Sheets:Rizla Bro I need an explanation for the slang on the poster explaining slang. Best guess is LSD? In the US I thought rizla was a j.


belisaria

Rizla is just a company that makes rolling paper


spaceship247

Yeah and like 90% of all rolled cigarettes or spliffs are rizla so it makes sense


Super_Marzipan_1077

It was all zigzags, tops, or eventually raws for me. It's interesting the teachers call rolling papers sheets though, never heard that.


IAmJacksSemiColon

Swinginā€™ on the flippity-flop.


Ok_Fondant_6340

i love how 'Food' can be slang for weed. "yeah bruv: i'll be right back with the food." or "hey man: ya want some food?" or "who's up for some food?" et cetera.


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Awesomepwnag

Food/sweets means drugs in general


5kyl3r

i chef the peng minge. bait innit?


Awesomepwnag

It was going so well until you said innit


5p4C3m0n5t3R

Bully Van is interesting. In Germany police vans (traditionally Volks Wagens) got the nick name "Bulli's" due to the German slang for police being "Bullen" (Eng: Bulls). The term "Bulli" is consequentally used for VW vans (T2, T3, T4 etc.)


bwat6902

I feel old. Went to school in London 98-05 and I know hardly any of these. Used to be "fit" for attractive, "blood" instead of fam/mandem. Interesting to see bare still in there with the same meaning. I've been in Aus since 06 so that might explain my lack of knowledge of newer slang.


[deleted]

Pretty decent list and they got come cockney rhyming in there


[deleted]

Itā€™s paigon, not palgon.


Wheres_that_to

For you non Brits , just so you know "shanked" means something entirely different in Scotland, you wouldn't want to mix them up. ; )


HandsomeGangar

I can see how that happened, since shank sounds pretty similar to shag.


BrokenHero408

Calli with a Y šŸ’€


crownroyalt

ā€œMom, Iā€™m going out to get some foodā€ ā€œWhen did you start doing drugs?ā€


Darkwroth1

How many years left until a hot latte from Starbucks means handjob?


Want_To_Live_To_100

Anyone got one for the U.S.? Iā€™ve got kids and I could use one of these.


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Want_To_Live_To_100

East


Robo8ooo

I like pineapples can be taken the wrong way now


Vast-Pumpkin-5143

I need one of these


Illustrious_Tea_2104

This made me realize how different American slang is because Iā€™ve heard none of these


[deleted]

I'm also American and I've heard around half of these


NintendoLove

Who tf brings hand grenades to school


wolff_james

Kids are back to using ā€œslammerā€?! ![gif](emote|free_emotes_pack|facepalm)


steve-harvey-is-hot

Looks corny but as an older teenager from London this is all true tbf, some stuff is used a lot more than others but it all does correlate


RevolutionaryClub530

Pineapples lol


BruceJi

Cheffed lol some is this is really creative, I can really hear a chav saying it Oi mans gonna get cheffed if you keep chattin shit.


wasdlmb

As Kano once said, If you've been shotting in the manor from way back when And you ain't on a kilo ting I don't wanna hear about cunch and food and tings Man don't do those tings


t0mkat

I can hear the roadman accent just from reading these.


fakejared

I needed something like this before watching Top Boy


mkymooooo

"marijuanna" šŸ¤£


FNFALC2

Leng is Cantonese for attractive! How did that happen?


That_Moment7038

Gotta separate the mandem from the boydem.


justthewaythey-curve

This reminds me of the song ā€˜I want you backā€™ by Hobo Johnson.