Slang Help Thread (like an updated Underground Dictionary)

[sus]

but then, i don't hang out with the kind of people who would know or say a word like that. actually there's a lot of similar friends that over the past five years or so people have started telling me off for saying, and i've stopped. even ironically 'slut' doesn't pass without comment. maybe rightly so, i never know with these things

Yeah "thot" is a bit softer, as "slut" has become cruel and harsh, "thot" is more playful and casual. Part of usage treadmills.

 

[sus]

went to London once, to see Andy C, didn't take to the place

Why would you type the extra letter when you can write "Londy" instead

 

[shakahislop]

'Andy C' is london ghetto slang for 'Andrew C', think the american contingent would need that explanation, i asked about it when i was there. at the big train station. they call it london paddington coz they're quite pretentious in that city, really it should be called London West Station

 

[william kent]

Gus signs off emails with "Thots and prayers,".

 

[yyaldrin]

i had to look up the word sassy the other day, a lot of people describe theirselves that way on dating apps

 

[Murphy]

Sassy Justice!

 

[shakahislop]

i would've called this thread 'Under Mi Slang Teng'

 

[Murphy]

Scundered @shiels

 

[william kent]

Why would you type the extra letter when you can write "Londy" instead

 

[woops]

 

[Murphy]

Plus Ian! The sassiest boy in America @mvuent

 

[Leo]

Sassy used to have a monthly "Cute Band Alert" where they would feature pix and Q&A with some indie band like the Lemonheads and Das Damen. It was like that generation's Tiger Beat.

 

[IdleRich]

i would've called this thread 'Under Mi Slang Teng'

But it's my thread so slang yer hook!

 

[shiels]

Scundered @shiels

beamer!

 

[shiels]

Street slang does fascinate me. As probably the most fluid and influential pressure on language evolution. But How does it evolve, is it trickle down from the hardest man? Are there singular sources or collective misinterpretations?
It especially makes me very sensitive and uncomfortable when it comes to the linguistic dynamics of class. I come from a working class background and have become middle class, and feel like I can empathise with the performativity and restrictions at play from both directions. This might sound strange but I spend a lot of time listening to people and feeling like they sound trapped. Does anyone else feel that? Maybe people read or listen to me and feel that way!

 

[Murphy]

spend a lot of time listening to people and feeling like they sound trapped. Does anyone else feel that?

being around English people? always

 

[shiels]

I realise that post sounds arrogant and also
Very basic but you can add something clever to it and teach me something

 

[Murphy]

Trapped

Synonyms & Near Synonyms for trapped

• ensnared
• bound,
• enslaved,
• indentured
• abducted,
• kidnapped
• (also kidnaped)
• apprehended,
• arrested,
• captive,
• captured,
• caught,
• confined,
• imprisoned,
• incarcerated,
• interned,
• jailed
• subdued,
• subjugated
• occupied

Antonyms & Near Antonyms for trapped

• free
• unconfined,
• unrestrained
• delivered,
• emancipated,
• enfranchised,
• freed,
• liberated,
• paroled,
• released

trapped
verb
past tense of trap
Synonyms & Antonyms of trapped (Entry 2 of 2)
1to catch or hold as if in a net

• an ambitious young man who was now trapped in a series of shady business deals

Synonyms for trapped

• caught up,
• enmeshed
• (also immeshed),
• ensnared,
• ensnarled,
• entangled,
• entoiled,
• entrapped,
• meshed,
• netted,
• snared,
• tangled

Words Related to trapped

• bagged,
• birdlimed,
• captured,
• collared
• embroiled,
• implicated,
• involved,
• mired

Near Antonyms for trapped

• detached,
• disengaged,
• extricated
• cleared,
• freed,
• liberated

Antonyms for trapped

• disentangled,
• untangled

2to take physical control or possession of (something) suddenly or forcibly

• finally trapped the annoying fly in the palm of his hand

Synonyms for trapped

• bagged,
• captured,
• caught,
• collared,
• copped
• [slang],
• corralled,
• glommed,
• got,
• grabbed,
• grappled,
• hooked,
• landed,
• nabbed,
• nailed,
• netted,
• nobbled
• [British slang],
• rapped,
• seized,
• snagged,
• snapped (up),
• snared,
• snatched

Words Related to trapped

• gloved,
• haltered,
• lassoed,
• roped
• apprehended,
• arrested,
• detained
• bayed,
• cornered
• clasped,
• clutched,
• fastened (on),
• fisted,
• grasped,
• gripped,
• held,
• latched (on or onto),
• secured
• rent
• (also rended),
• wrested
• enmeshed
• (also immeshed),
• ensnared,
• entangled,
• entrapped,
• meshed
• abducted,
• kidnapped
• (also kidnaped),
• spirited (away oroff)

Phrases Synonymous with trapped

• took hold (of)

 

[IdleRich]

Thou

Street slang does fascinate me. As probably the most fluid and influential pressure on language evolution. But How does it evolve, is it trickle down from the hardest man? Are there singular sources or collective misinterpretations?
It especially makes me very sensitive and uncomfortable when it comes to the linguistic dynamics of class. I come from a working class background and have become middle class, and feel like I can empathise with the performativity and restrictions at play from both directions. This might sound strange but I spend a lot of time listening to people and feeling like they sound trapped. Does anyone else feel that? Maybe people read or listen to me and feel that way!

Well as a very middle-class person from Oxfordshire I certainly find myself at times unable to avoid code-switching - I think that's what you call it right? Though that may be more to do with the way I pronounce words than the words I use... but it's all related of course.

I do like the idea of a guy - Eugene Landy - who I suppose sort of straddled two worlds (or at least certainly saw himself as doing so) in that he was an academic but also had some sort of background in show business and knocked around with Brian Wilson and other celebrities, writing a book for straights dealing with the underground. I think that most of us read this stuff for the sake of learning, seeing how much we already know... what's changed and what has stayed the same and basically cos we are all interested in and in some cases part of subcultures - that's what dissensus is, a load of people who are fascinated by that kind of thing. But just imagine a lawyer trying to represent a biker gang and he's negotiating with them with the book in one hand so he can translate or a doctor trying to revive a collapsed hippy desperately clutching this book as he does so... I strongly suspect however that it would have been unwise to rely on such a book in a true life and death situation....

 

[Mr. Tea]

Thou

I understand the hep young cats today generally say "you".