London slang dictionary for SLO |WIP|

[Fraudulent]

Wagwarn, community! (lol)
Recently we’ve been discussing grime and the urban culture of modern London (specifically the Northern and Southern regions) with some members in the Discord chat. We went through how gangs operate and some other shit, but most importantly the language that circulated the urban regions.
I have decided to put together a London slang dictionary for you guys to refer to when listening to grime tracks, and more specifically drill.

Gang related
Jump Out Gang - A collaboration between Harlem Spartans, 67 and 86.
67 - Major powerhouse in London. Pretty much controls the drug and weapon exchanges in South London. Based in Brixton.
86 - Neighbouring and allied gang with 67. Based in Brixton again.
Harlem Spartans - Part of JOG. Fairly new but dangerous and recently active gang based in Kennington.
Ounto Nation - Large gang in North London. Not sure how much of an impact they have or their attitudes towards the south. Based in Tottenham.

A
Aggy – Aggressive
“Nigga, don’t get me aggy”
Aggro – Aggressive
Amm – Amnesia. A strand of Indica breed weed.
“I get loads of money from trapping Amm”
Ahlie – A London slang word for ‘I know right’
“Mars: The Shinobi exams were retarded
Snoopy: Ahlie”
Allow it – Go easy on something. Let it go.
“Misi: Give me all your SLO coins!
Jcryer: Allow it, please!”
Aired - When you get ignored, whether it be a read message without reply or in real life.
"Lol, man got aired"

B
Bare – Loads. When somebody or yourself has a lot of something.
“I got bare jewels on my neck”
“She’s chatting bare”
“Man’s got bare problems”
Bands – A large sum of money wrapped in a rubber band. Usually £1000 or more.
“This watch cost me 5 bands”
“I spent 20 bands on this whip”
Bando – The house where drugs are produced, packed and sometimes sold.
“Chillin’ in the bando”
Bredrins – Brothers.
Bells – Type of bullets for a shotgun.
Bun – Ugly or Attack
“That girl is bun, fam”
“If he acts up, we’re gonna bun him”
Bruck/Brukk – To break something.
“Bruck up man’s face”
“Got that weed, bruck it all down”
“Your bro got brukk up”
“I bruck my dik” (Requested by Accelerator)
Body – To “catch a body” means to kill somebody.
“SJ caught a body on Tuesday”
Bait – When something is obvious1, and when someone is being exposed2.
1.   “Ken: Cover yourself with a shirt if someone catches you wanking
Mars: Nah, man, that’s too bait”
2.   “Reminance: I saw Chikai give head to some guy on SLO
Nova: Bait her out fam”
Block – Neighbourhood/Estate
Bird – A girl.
“Who’s that bird?”
Batty – Big ass. Can also mean gay.
“She got that big batty”
“He’s a battyboy”
Bossman - The owner of a shop. Usually corner store. Anyone can be bossman regardless of race.
"What's up, bossman?"
Beef - Conflict between two or more people.
"There's beef on the courts"
Blanked - Ignored
Beg - Someone who is needy
"He's a beg"
Bumbaclart - Something you wipe your ass with. So the English equivalent will be 'Asswipe'. The word can also be a substitute for "fuck".
"Friend performs an evil prank on you
A: Bumbaclart..."
Bludclart/Bloodclart - Blood cloth. Bloody tampon or other substance. Used to describe an annoying person. Big insult.
"What a bludclart"
Bally/Ballie – A balaclava (mask worn to conceal identity).

C
Corn – Bullets
“Loading the iron with corn”
Crash – Raid/Invade
“We crashed the opp block”
Creps – Trainers
“Look at my fresh creps”
Case – Court Case. When someone has been caught by the police, they may get a court case depending on what crime they have committed.
“I ain’t trynna catch no case”
Chunky – Usually describes fat bullets. Wider than the standard.
“Chunky corn”
“Chunky stones”
Chase – To “Hold a chase” means to run away from someone.
“When we went through your hood, you were holding chase”
Cah – Because.
“Whatasnipe: Needa go sleep, cah man’s tired”
Can – Jail.
“Free my bros in the can”
Clip – The magazine on a gun.
“He emptied the clip on these niggas”
Crud – Shit. When somebody talks shit.
“He’s talking crud”
Cats – Drug consumers.
“I sold to dem cats”
Cheffed – Cut up/killed.
“He got cheffed up on the main road”
Clapped - Someone ugly.
"Rah, he's clapped as fuck"
'Chete - A machete

D
Driller – A driller is a respected gangster, known for committing crimes like robbery, murder and trapping and most of all sticking with his gang and repping his ends.
“Krazyy: You know Abz, yeah?”
“Snoopy: Yeah bro, he’s a real driller”
Dotty – Street term for a shotgun.
“Got tha’ Dotty in the bag”
Ding-dong – A cheap car.
“Skrr round with the ding-dong”
Dash – Also known as “Dasheen” or “Dashing”. When someone runs away in fear.
“Them man dasheen”
Dough – Money/Drugs
“I make that dough”
Dead up – Killed.
“Someone’s gonna get dead-up”
“He got dead-up”
Dip – Stab. Can also mean to run away or hide.
“Dip man down”
“He got dipped”
"He dipped from the area"
Dashed - When something gets thrown
"He dashed a chair out the window"
Dun Know! - Almost like... "Cmon!" or "You know it!" a celebration of sorts.
"A showing off muscles
B: Big guns bro!
A: Dun know!"
Dead - When something is unwanted/unattractive/unfitting. For example, a 'dead ting' would be someone unattractive. Or, if you went for a party that was boring, or even heard an unfunny joke, you'd say 'that's dead'.

E
Ends - English equivalent to the American 'Hood'
"These are my ends"
"What ends are you from?"

F
Fry – To shoot someone up. (Past tense|Fried)
“He got fried”
Fields – In a field or a less populated place. Definitely not main road.
“Don’t leave your Gs when you’re in the field”
Fam - Family or friend
"What's up, fam?"

G
Gyaldem – Group of girls. Opposite to ‘mandem’.
Grub - Drugs
"I'm selling grub"

H
Head – Blowjob.
Hench - Strong/Muscly
"Fuck, that guy's hench"
Hollow tips - Types of bullets that expand on impact to cause maximum damage.
"My hollow tips will put man down"

I
Iron - Gun
"There's live corn in the iron"

J
JOG – Short for ‘Jump Out Gang’. A collaboration between Harlem Spartans, 67 and 86.

K

L
Lurk – Going round searching for opps to kill.
“Lurking round with the gang”
Likkle/Lickle – Small or young. Often used when talking about people.
“Likkle man sit down, you don’t wanna get skied”

M
MAC – MAC-10, a machine pistol often mentioned in drill songs.
“Bro put 20 in the MAC”
Mandem - Group of males, usually referring to your friends but can also refer to opps.
"Free up the mandem"
Man-like! - When you praise someone, usually your bro for doing something that will give him rep.
"A: I just got the new Js and a bird
B: Man like!"
Myth - A lie
"Lol, nah fam, that's a myth"
Merk/Murk - When something/someone is almost if not completely destroyed
"He merked it"
"He got merked"
Mazza - Madness. When something is too much.
"A: Rah, you see all dem yutes beefing?
 B: Yeah g, it's a mazza"
Mash/Masha - Gun
"I raise my mash on the streets"

N
Noddy – Blowjob. Because the head nods during the process.
"She gave me noddy"

O
Opps – Opposition. The rivals.
“Splash an opp boy”
On my ones – Going somewhere alone.
“I was on my ones”
Ounto – Arabic for ‘food’, also used as a reference for drugs by gangs in the North.
“I smoke on the Ounto”

P
Peng – An attractive person.
“He/she is peng”
Pum – Jamaican slang for ‘vagina’ or ‘pussy’.
“She has a smelly pum pum”
Pagan/Paigon - A traitor
"How can man be wearing Adidas AND Nike? What a paigon!"
"Don't trust that yute, he's a paigon"
Pole – Shotgun.

Q
Qwengerz – An ugly girl.

R
Racks – Loads of money.
Rushed – Beaten up. Warning shots.
“He came to the wrong block and got rushed”
Rambizzy - Another word for 'Rambo', a knife.
"Big rambizzy by my side"
Roadman - A young adult or man in his 20s who generally has no education and has joined a gang. A real roadman is equipped with weaponry, not afraid to get jailed and is involved with trapping.

S
Skrr – Also known as ‘Skrt’ is the sound the wheels of a vehicle makes when it starts to drift. This is used in drill tracks to show that a car is being used.
“Skrr round your block”
Spinner – A revolver.
“My bro got the spinner”
Smoke – Gunfire / to kill someone.
“He got smoked”
“We ain’t leaving till we see smoke”
Scoreboard – The imaginary scoreboard of gang rivalry, who’s leading in territory, trapping etc.…
“67: Scoreboard is looking great”
Splash – To stab someone to the point where he’s flowing in blood.
“Splash man down then leave”
Sprayed – When someone is showered in bullets.
Skeng - A knife
"Skeng in my pocket, can't you see he bulge in my coat?"
Sket - A slut
Slag - A slut
Shook - Scared
"He was shook"
Shank - A knife. Also means stab.
"He's got a shank in his pocket"
"He got shanked"
Skududu – Sound of rapid fire. Gunfire.
"Skududu with the 10"

T
Tum-tum – Gun.
“Got that loud tum-tum”
Ten-toes – Walking.
“We went ten-toes in the opp block”
Trapping – The exchange of drugs for money.
Traphouse – The building in which drugs are made and packed.
T-Side – The Tottenham region of London. AKA Snoopy’s residence.
“Don’t come to the T, head back”
Tops – Blowjob.
“She gave that sloppy toppy”
Trek - A long journey
"Walking over there is a trek"

U
Uck/Uckers – Blowjob.

V

W
Whip - Car
Wagwarn/Wahgwan - When you greet someone. Jamaican slang again.
"Wagwarn, where're you?"

X

Y
Yute(s) – Young people.
Yard - A house
"I have a free yard" (Implies your house is empty and can host friends over)
Z

This is still work in progress. Message me if you have something to add.

Tracks where some of these words are used:


https://youtu.be/x8bQ92tWjTU?t=20


Big shout out to those who contributed to the dictionary!
Contributors:
@RyanFlashfire
@jedikan

[Toratsume Nyshn]

Them bare slangs jus crashed mah brains nigga. Need to smoke on the ounto but I ain't got nones.

The traphouse's a mile away, mah ding dong's broken. Need racks to fix it so gonna go ten toes on mah ones.
:/
Imma likkle nigga gonna skip the T-side. But jus in case opps on lurk, mah MAC shall smoke 'em.
Ciao Yutes.
o/

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Good enough? :3

[Fraudulent]

Them bare slangs jus crashed mah brains nigga. Need to smoke on the ounto but I ain't got nones.

The traphouse's a mile away, mah ding dong's broken. Need racks to fix it so gonna go ten toes on mah ones.
:/
Imma likkle nigga gonna skip the T-side. But jus in case opps on lurk, mah MAC shall smoke 'em.
Ciao Yutes.
o/

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Good enough? :3

Not bad, but you've overused the words and the way you've formatted it makes you seem weird.

[AbeMelbs]

Merk - To get rekt

[America]

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nigga

[Fraudulent]

TUM TUM TUM TUM TUM TUM TUM TUM TUM TUM TUM TUM TUM TUM TUM TUM




nigga

https://youtu.be/B4-UtR1vExc?t=120

[RyRy]

dip - also means to leave something/somewhere ngl

[Fraudulent]

dip - also means to leave something/somewhere ngl

That is correct. I completely forgot about the other meaning lmao.
Added.

[RyRy]

you're missing a lot of words, looks good tho

[Fraudulent]

you're missing a lot of words, looks good tho

I'd appreciate it if you let me know what they are so I can add them.
Obviously the thread is WIP so there's others that I can't think of just yet.

[RyRy]

you're missing a lot of words, looks good tho

I'd appreciate it if you let me know what they are so I can add them.
Obviously the thread is WIP so there's others that I can't think of just yet.

aight, i'll pm you on discord or something

[jedikan]

I thought it was 'wagwan' not 'wagwarn'??

ALSSOOO don't forget 'leng' (gun). Funny enough, people often confuse skeng with leng, so skeng could be seen as a weapon in general to be honest.

And for E, don't forget 'ends' (equivalent to the American 'hood').

Murk (beat up someone really badly)

All the different clarts (bombaclart, rassclart, pussyclart etc). All high insults. Like you'd get murked in certain places that are aware of jamaican patois for calling anyone any of these.

'Dun Know' (a sort of celebration like 'Of course')

In grime music, girls are usually referred to as 'tings' or 'gyals', so you'd here something like 'peng ting' which means an attractive woman. Females could use tings when referring to guys as well. Oh yeah and a word you could use in place of 'peng' is 'piff' which just means something of high quality. So a 'piff ting' could be same as a 'peng ting' (in the same context of course).

Besides those, I think you got most of them down. Sorry my post is a bit messy, feeling slightly sick.


EDIT: When I wrote this reply, nobody had posted here. It posted late for some reason 

[Toratsume Nyshn]

...and the way you've formatted it makes you seem weird.

#GoalAchieved

[jedikan]

Would anybody be interested in grime recommendations???

[Fraudulent]

I thought it was 'wagwan' not 'wagwarn'??

ALSSOOO don't forget 'leng' (gun). Funny enough, people often confuse skeng with leng, so skeng could be seen as a weapon in general to be honest.

And for E, don't forget 'ends' (equivalent to the American 'hood').

Murk (beat up someone really badly)

All the different clarts (bombaclart, rassclart, pussyclart etc). All high insults. Like you'd get murked in certain places that are aware of jamaican patois for calling anyone any of these.

'Dun Know' (a sort of celebration like 'Of course')

In grime music, girls are usually referred to as 'tings' or 'gyals', so you'd here something like 'peng ting' which means an attractive woman. Females could use tings when referring to guys as well.

Besides those, I think you got most of them down. Sorry my post is a bit messy, feeling slightly sick.


EDIT: When I wrote this reply, nobody had posted here. It posted late for some reason 

Safe bro
I was hesitant when it came to the clarts, because I thought that it would be a stretch too far.
I'll include them though, it'll be hard to explain to non-London people what they are though.