Results for “Speak to the manager”

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Speakeasy
noun

A hidden illegal bar of the Prohibition era where you spoke easy to get in.

#1920s#flapper#jazz-age#prohibition
Dortspeak
noun

The mocking name for the affected South Dublin accent — 'Dublin 4' becomes 'Dortspeak'.

#irish#dublin#accent#class
Yatspeak
noun

The whole bundle of New Orleans pronunciations and grammar — 'where y'at?'

#nola#yat#new-orleans#dialect
Karen
noun

A stereotype of an entitled, demanding person — often a middle-aged woman who wants to "speak to the manager."

#karen#meme#internet#american
acoustic 18+
adjective

Mature content — open to view.

#tiktok#algospeak#insult#ableist
sybau 18+
interjection

Mature content — open to view.

#tiktok#acronym#gen-z#comments
danger noodle
phrase

Cutesy doggo-speak for a snake.

#reddit#doggolingo#animals#cute
crachach
noun

The Welsh-speaking establishment elite — Wales's own snob class.

#welsh#wales#class#politics
barrio
noun

The neighbourhood — Spanish-speaking, often working-class.

#la#chicano#hip-hop#spanish
ya mom'n'em
phrase

NOLA-speak for 'your mom and the rest of the family'.

#nola#family#southern#everyday
pop-trunk
noun

Remote-popping trunk rigged with neon, amps and speakers.

#texas#houston#slab#car-culture
so don't I
phrase

Paradox Boston-speak for 'so do I' — somehow agreeing by negating.

#boston#new-england#regional#grammar
papasan
noun

The male manager of a massage parlor.

#sex-work#massage#management#japanese-loanword
house mom
phrase

The dressing-room manager who looks after the dancers.

#sex-work#stripping#club#staff
gag / gagging / gagged
verb

To be so stunned by something fierce you can't speak.

#ballroom#drag#lgbtq#rupaul
pocho
noun

Assimilated/Americanized Mexican; Spanglish speaker

#spanish#spanglish#latino#identity
gaffer
noun

The manager or head coach.

#sports#manager#british
hairdryer treatment
noun

A furious face-to-face dressing-down from the manager.

#sports#manager#discipline#british
tea pad
noun

1930s-40s speakeasy for smoking cannabis.

#weed#cannabis#420#jazz
direct report
noun

An employee who reports to a given manager.

#corporate#office#work#management
skip level
noun

A meeting with your manager's manager.

#corporate#office#work#management
hedgies
noun

Dismissive nickname for hedge funds and their managers.

#finance#stocks#wsb#institutions
Big Voice
noun

The base loudspeaker (or IDF warning) system.

#military#army#basecamp#comms
Silent Disco
noun

A party where everyone dances to music through wireless headphones, not speakers.

#american#gen-z
Hyung
noun

Korean for 'older brother' used by men — fandom-speak for the elder male members.

#kpop#korean#pop#fandom
Roxxor
verb

Leetspeak for 'rocks' — to be excellent — using the '-xor' suffix, as in 'j00 r0xx0r'.

#leet#1337#gaming#internet
Cut Whids
phrase

To speak or talk in the cant — and to 'cut bene whids' was to speak fair and friendly.

#thieves-cant#cant#historical#british
Govoreet
verb

Nadsat for to speak or talk, from the Russian 'govorit'.

#nadsat#clockwork-orange#fictional#literary
Hooch
noun

Cheap bootleg liquor, the rough stuff that flowed through Prohibition speakeasies.

#1920s#flapper#jazz-age#prohibition
J00
phrase

Leetspeak for 'you', often paired with taunts like 'j00 got pwned'.

#leet#1337#gaming#internet
Suxxor
verb

Leetspeak for 'sucks' — to be bad — the counterpart to 'roxxor'.

#leet#1337#gaming#internet
Phreak
noun

A phone-system hacker; the 1970s subculture whose 'ph' spelling seeded later leetspeak.

#leet#1337#gaming#internet
El-Rig
noun

Cockney back-slang for 'girl' — 'girl' reversed and split to make it speakable.

#cockney#back-slang#british#uk
Talmbout
verb

A smashed-together way of saying 'talking about' that AAVE speakers use all day.

#aave#american#gen-z#hip-hop
Haxor
noun

Leetspeak respelling of 'hacker', often written h4x0r, used admiringly or mockingly.

#leet#1337#gaming#internet
Boundaries
noun

The limits you set on how people can treat you — therapy-speak's MVP word.

#gen-z#american#texting
Touch Base
phrase

Corporate speak for briefly checking in with someone.

#gen-z#money#internet#meme
Unnie
noun

Korean for 'older sister' used by women — fandom-speak for an older female idol.

#kpop#korean#pop#fandom
Haunting
verb

When an ex or ghost keeps a creepy quiet presence on your socials, watching but never speaking.

#gen-z#dating#internet#ghosting
Oppa
noun

Korean for 'older brother' used by women — turned into stan-speak for an older male idol.

#kpop#korean#pop#fandom