Then team this with what roadman slang actually is, and you really do wonder why these kooky words prompt so much hate. Yinged. Some notable forms of slang that have names (this isn't exhaustive): Cockney Rhyming Slang MLE / Multicultural London English / UBE / Urban British English (aka Nang Slang / Nang Teen or Jafaican / Blinglish / Tikkiny / Blockney) Polari (aka Palare / Palyaree / Palary), 1 man up / One man up 2 2 2 man step / Two man step 3 man step / Three man step 4-door / Four door 5-0 / Five O / Five-O .9 / .9mil / Nine / Nina 10 Toes / 10 Toe / Ten toes / Ten toe 12 .22 .32 .357 / 3-5 .38 .40 .44 / Four four / 4's .45 / 4's / Four fifth .50 110s 125 / 1-2's, A-Town / A Town / The A Act up Aggro Aggy / Aggiest Ain't Air / Airing Akhi / Akh All mouth and trousers Alie / Ahlie Allow / 'Low / Lowe AM / M Ammi / Am / Amm / Ammy / Amnesia Amp Armshouse / Arms Arse Bandit Arse Arsehole / Arseholes Arselick / Arse lickers Askar Astra A that ting Athens of the North Auld Reekie Awoh, Babylon Bad B / Badders / Badeen / Badina Badman / Badmans Badness Baccy Bacon Back Back it / Back / Backed it / Backed out / Back out Backshot Bae Bag of / Bagga / Baggaman / Bagga man Bag of sand Bagged Baghdad Bags Baiders / Baider / Bade / Bading Bait Bally Bam Bando Bando base / Bando basing Bang Banging Barbie Bare Bark / Barking Bars Bash / Bashing / Bashed Basic Batty / Batty boy Beam Beanie / Beanies / Beans Beat / Beater Beef / Beefing / Beefin' Begfriend / Beg friend Bell Bellend / Bellends Bells Belly Benz / Ben / Benner / Benners Big mac / Big macs / Big M Big man ting / BMT / Big man tings Big up Bill / Billing / Belling Bill / Bills Billy no mates Bin Bine Bingo wings Bird / Birds Birded Birms / Birmz Biscuit Bisaad/Bisshead Bitch / Bitches / Bitching / Bitch boy Bits Bizzies Black Maria Blag / Blagging Blam / Blammed / Blammer Blem Blench Blicky Bloke Blootered Blud Blue Borough Blue Bridge Blues and twos Bly Boat / Boat race Bob Bobbies Bocat / Bocats / Bow cat / Bowcat Bog / Bog roll Bogtrotters Bollock naked Bollocking Bollocks Bollocksed Botty Boo Boogs Booky / Bookie / Buki / Bookey Boomting / Boom ting / Boom-ting Booting Bonkaz / Bonkers Bore / Bored / Boring Borer / Bora Boss / Bossman Boydem / Boysdem Boyed Boyment Bracking Bradistan Brain Brap / Blap Bread Breading Bredrin / Bredrins Breeze off Breh / Brer / Bre Brick / Bricks Bricky / Brix Bro Brodie Brooklyn Broom Broski Brown Bruce Bruck / Bruk Bruck-back / Brucky / Bruckshot Brudda / Bruddas / Bredda / Breddas / Bruddah / Breddah Brum Brummie Bruv Bubble / Bubblin' Buck / Bucky / Bucked Buff / Buff ting Bugger all / Bugger-all Bugger off / Buggered off Buggered Buggery Builder's bum Bujj / Buj / Bujju / Booj Bully van / Bully vans Bumfluff Bummy / Bum Bun Bunda Burger Burner / Burna Burst / Bursting Buss / Bussed Bust / Bustin' Butters, Cabbaged Cack-handed Cah / Cuh Cake Cannon Can't be arsed / CBA / Can't be asked Case / Cases Cat / Cats / Catty / Kat / Kit Kat / Katty / Kitties dem Catting Catfish Certi / Certified Chatty / Chatty Patty / Chatty-chatty Charlie Charver / Charvers / Charva / Charvas Chav / Chavs / Chavvy Cheese Cheesed off Cheddar Cheff / Cheffer / Cheffed / Cheffing / Cheffers / Cheffy 'Chette / 'Chette's Chib / Chibs / Chibbed Chief Chiefed Ching Chinged Chinger / Chingers Chinging / Chingings Chip Chips Chirps / Chirpsing Chocolate starfish Choong / Choong ting / Chung / Chungting / Choong tings / Choongest / Choongers Chuntering Civilian / Civilians / Civ Clanger Clap / Clappin' / Clapping / Clappaholic / The clap Clapper / Clappers Clap Town Clapped Clart / Clartin' / Clarting / Clarter Click / Clicking / Clicker Cling Clock / Clocked Clout Clunge Cockblock Codswallop Cold Colly Cop / Coppa / Copper / Cops / Coppers Cor blimey / Corblimey / Gorblimey / Gor blimey Corn Cotch / Cotched / Cotching / Kotch / Kotched / Kotching Crackhead Crash / Crashed / Crashing / Crashing corn Crasher / Crashers Creasing / Creasing up Crep / Creps Crib Criss Chrome Crow / Cro / Chro Crud / Cruddy C Town Cunch / Country Cut / Cutting, Dank Darg / Dog / Dawg Dark Dash / Dasheen / Dashing Dead / Dead ting / Deadout Dead up Dear Green Place Dem Deyah Dibble Dickhead Dinger / Ding-Dong / Ding Dinner / Dinners Dip / Dipper / Dippers / Dipped Do road Dog's bollocks Don / Dons / Donness / Donette / Donny Don dada / Don gorgon / Dangargan Done / Dun Done out / Dun out / Done out here / Dun out here Dosh Dot / Dots Dotty / Dotties Double-Tap Dough Doughnut / Donut Dove Downsuh Draw Drop Drop top Drum Ducking Dumpies Dunkno / Dunknow / Dun know / Dun kno / Done know Duppy / Duppying Dutty Drill / Drills / Drilling / Drillings Driller / Drillers Drip, Eat Eating Ediat / Eediat / Eediyat Elizabeth / Lizzy Ends, F Faff / Faffer Fag / Fags Fairs Fam Famalam Fanny Fassy / Fassyhole / Fassies / Fass Fed / Feds / Federals / Federaly Feen / Fiend Fence Field Fishing Fit / Fitter Five O / Five-O / 5-0 Fiver Flat roofin' Flicky / Flick / Flicks Flizz Food Four door / 4-door Four Fizzy / Fizzy Four four / .44 / 4's Frass / Frassed Fries From time Fry Fryer Funds Fuzz, G / G's / OG G-Check Gaari Gaff Gammon Gangdem / Gang dem Garm / Garms Gash Gassed Gauge Gavvers Gaza / Gaza Strip Geezer / Geez Gelato Gem Gemming it Glide / Glides Glizzy Got-got / Got got Gorblimey / Gor blimey / Cor blimey / Corblimey Gov / Govs / Govy Grand Granite City Green Greeze Grind / Grinder Groupie Grub Gully Gullyside / Illyside Gunchester Gwop Gyalchester Gyaldem / Gyal dem / Girl dem / Girls dem / Gyallie / Gyal, Habaad/Xabaad Had up Hammer / Hammers Hammered Handting / Hand ting Hang tight Harlem / Harlem City Hat / Hatterz Heater / Heat Head Headtop Headtopped Hella HMP Hench Home V's Hold tight Holla / Holla'd Hooptie / Hoopties / Hoopty / Hoop Hoover Hot Hotted Hudds Hunna Hype / Hyping / Hyped, I and I IC3 Illyside / Gullyside Innit Iron Itch / Itchy Izzy, Jack Jones / Jacks Jakes Jam sandwich Jarring Jeet Jezzy / Jezzie / Jezebel Jook / Jooked / Jooks / Jooking / Jookings Joint / Joints Jugg / Juggin' Juice / Juice Junk, K / K / K's / K'd Kat / Kit Kat / Katty / Cat / Cats / Catty Ken Ketchup Khalas / Khalaas Kicks Killy Kiss my arse Kitchen KMT ("Kiss / Kissing my teeth" or "Kiss / Kissing your teeth") Koalass Kotch / Kotched / Kotching / Cotch / Cotched / Cotching Kway / Qway Kweff / Queff / Kweffer / Queffer / Kweffed / Queffed / Kweffings / Queffing Kweng / Kwenger / Kwengers / Kwengings / Kwenged, L Lack / Lacking / Slipping / Slip Lay lay ting Leg it / Legged it / Legging it / Legs it Landing / Landings Leng Lengman Lengting / Lengtings Lick Lidge Lighty Lightwork Likkle Line Link / Linking Litch Live corn Live-O Long / Long ting / Longage Loo / Loo roll Loud Low flyer 'Low / Lowe / Allow Lughole / Lugholes Lunch Lurk / Lurking / Lurky, M / AM Mac / M10 / M11 Macaroni Machine Mad Madaax/Maddakh Mains Mali / Malis Mali Strip Man Man step / Step Mandem Manky Manny Manor Marsh Mash / Masheen Mash man Mash work Matic Maud Mazza / Mazzaleen / Mazzaleeni MCM / Man Crush Monday Meady / Meedi Melt 'Ments / 'Mense Merk / Murk / Merking / Murking / Merked / Murked / Murker / Merker Mill' Mindi Minge Minging / Minger Moist Monkey Moola / Moolah / Mola / Mulla / Mula / Mulah / Mulla / Mullah Moot Moscow Mop More Time Mr Plod / Plod / Plods / The plod / PC Plod Mug / Muggin' / Mugging / Mugged Muppet / Muppets Murderzone / MZ M-Way, Nang Nank / Nank's / Nanked / Nanking 'Narm / Nizzy / Nizzy Narm / Pecky / Pecknarm / Peckyside / Pecknizzy / Pecks / Peckz Ned / Neds Neek / Neeks / Neeky New plate NFA Nitty Nick / Nicked Nine / Nina / .9 / .9mil Niz Nizzy No Cap No Face, No Case No long ting / Nothing long Noddy Nonce North Weezy / Norf Weezy / Weezy Nyash, Obbo Old bill / The bill Older / Olders On Job / OJ On road On tops One man up / 1 man up Oner Ooter / Ooters Opp / Opps / Oppers Opp Block Opping On Tag Ones OT / Outer Town Ounto, P / P's Passer Passy / Pass Pack / Packs Packed Paigon / Paigons / Pagan / Pagans Panda Car / Panda cars Paper / Papes Par / Parred / Parring Passa Pattern / Patterned / Patterned up / Pattern up / Patterning Patty Pave P Block Peak Pecknarm / 'Narm / Pecky / Peckyside / Pecknizzy / Nizzy / Nizzy Narm / Pecks / Peckz PCD / Pull Up, Crash, Dash Peelers Peb / Pebs / Pebbles Ped Pen Peng / Pengers / Pengest Pengaleng / Peng-a-leng / Peng-aleng Pengting / Peng ting / Peng tings Petty PG Pickney / Pickneys Piff / Piffting / Piff ting Pig / Pigs / Piglets Pillock / Pillocks Pinky Ping Piss Pissed / Pissed off Plod / Plods / The plod / Mr Plod / PC Plod Plonker / Plonkers Plug / Plugging Poke Pole Ponce / Ponces / Poncy / Poncing Poomplex Pork / Porkies / Porky / Porked Prang Pree / Preeing / Preed Pum pum Pump / Pumpy Punani / Punanis Pussio / Pussy'ole / Pussy'oles / Pussyoles / Pussyole / Pussy hole / Pussyhole / Pussyholes / Pussy / Pussies / Pussy dem, Rack / Racks Racket Rah / Rahs Rahtid / Raatid / Rhaatid / Rarted / Ratid 'Rales Rambo / Rambz / Rambzy / Rammy / Rambizzy / Ramsey Ramp / Ramping Ratchet / Ratch' Rass / Rarse / Raas Readies Reh teh teh Reload / Re-up Rental Ringer Rizz / Rizzla Road / Roads Roadman / Roadmen Rozzer / Rozzers Rubbed Rubbish Rudeboy / Rudegirl / Rudie Runtz Russian Rusty, Sammy / Sammi / Samurai Sauce Scatty / Skatty Score Scoreboard Scorps Scram Second City of the Empire Seen / Skeen Shank / Shanks / Shanked / Shanking / Shankings Shave / Shaving Shell / Shellings / Shelling Shh Shift / Shifted / Shiffed Shing shao/Xin Zhao Shiv Shook Shot / Shots Shotting Shotty Showerman / Shower man Sideman / Sidemen Sing Siraq Skank Skate / Skating / Skeet Skeng / Skengs / Skengaleng / Skeng-a-leng Skengman Sket / Skets / Sketty Slag / Slags / Slaggy Slag off / Slagging / Slagged Slammer Slang / Slanging Slapper / Slapper Slew / Slewing / Slewed Slipping / Slip / Lack / Lacking Slop Smackers Smoke / Smokes / Smoker Snake Snap Sneeze Snitch Spanner Spannered Sparko Spesh / Speshy Spin / Spinner / Spinners / Spin ting Splash / Splashed / Splashy Spliff Spondulicks / Spondoolicks / Spondulics / Spondulacks Splurt Stain Standard Star Step / Man step Stick / Sticks Still / Styll Stiver Stones Strally Strap / Straps / Strapped Strip Swammy / Swammies Swear down Sweets / Sweeties Swim / Swimming Swiss Sword, Tanned Tark Tapped Teef Teeth Tek / Tec / Tekky Tekkers Tenner Ten toes / Ten toe / 10 Toes / 10 toe Tester The bill / Old bill The plod / Mr Plod / Plod / Plods / PC Plod The Seven / The 7 The Six / The 6 The Sweeney Three man step / 3 man step Three-ha'pence [on] Tick Ting / Tings Tips Tit wank Toff Touched Top / Toppers Top boy Tosser / Tossers Trap Trap House Trapping / Trapper Tre Pound / Trey Trident Trip TSG TT / TT grub Tug Tum-tum Twang Twat / Twatting Two man step / 2 man step Two two / Two twos, Uck / Uckers / Ucky UDN Undies Unlimited legs Upsah / Upsuh / Upsee, Verbal Vex / Vexed Vietnarm Volts Volvo, Wagwan Waigon / Waigons Wallad Wano Road Wank / Wanks / Wanker / Wankers / Wanking / Wanked Wank bank Wank mag Wankered Wankstain / Wankstains Wap / Waps Washed / Washed up Wass / Wassy Wasteman / Wastemen Wet wipe Wet / Wetty / Wet up / Wetted Wetter / Wetters Wham Whip Whistle / Whistles White Whizz / Whiz Wing Woi-oi Wok house Wooly Road / Wooly Hood Woosh Woosher Wonga Worksy Wrap / Wrapped, Yard Yardy / Yardie / Yardies / Yardman Yat / Yatty Y Yellow Brick Ying / Yinged / Yingers / Yings Yob / Yobbo Yola Yute / Yutes / Yout' / Youts YG / Young G, Z / Zed / Zeds Zait Zanco Zesser / Zessed out Zombie Knife / ZK Zoobie Zoop Zoot, To learn more, check out our transcription guide or visit our transcribers forum. You don't want to be called a wasteman. Trizzac (a UK rapper) and many gangs use the word like this: he got tingd in front of his bae (pronounced like thing without the h). These rappers dont do facades. Think of this as the Drill way of saying on point or just how I like it. Getting a good sense of UK slang terms that describe everyday actions will help prepare you to understand what the locals mean when they're describing actions. I think the term stems from specific groups of Jamaican immigrants who were relatively poor and housed in their own type of estates/Section 8 housing called "yards". Did that just happen?. Thats right. Something hell probs use to get his hands on your hard-earned gwop, especially if youre one of his opps. Heres an example, google the following: And youll see that most of the results are slang related. To teach or inculcate something to someone by constant, intense repetition: The teacher drilled the multiplication tables into the bored students. Of course, bars like "suttin in my coat" would obviously point to a strap, but definitely worth nothing that it's not uncommon at all for this word to be used in many other contexts. 1) To murder or otherwise severely injure someone; slang associated with gang violence. And more on the cross-influences between UK and US Drill from Kit Mackintosh in August 2021: Some of these definitions are false. Couldn't read this without laughing after you put "12 - 12 gauge shotgun" my nigga 12 is cops specifically narcs. It is sonically similar to the trap music subgenre and lyrically similar to the gangsta rap subgenre. It is important to recognise that if a young person uses this language, it does not necessarily mean they are being exploited. I'll get rid of it bc it's not Your slang it's ours. Theater of popular music. I was trollied.". However, today another two meanings have spawned. 04. Instrumentals often also have a sliding bass, hard hitting kicks, and dark melodies. 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