Slang

Words classified as "Slang": browse meanings, regions, and examples.

This page brings together every word tagged "Slang" across the dictionary. A category like this travels — pop in the Midwest, soda in the Northeast, coke in the Deep South — and the listing shows just how wide that travel goes.

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12 words

bet Slang

OK / agreed / sounds good.

Georgia · New York · California · Texas

finna Slang

About to do something (from "fixing to").

Georgia, Atlanta · Mississippi · Louisiana · Texas · +1 more

gnarly Slang

Extreme — context dictates whether good or bad.

California

hella Slang

Very (NorCal intensifier).

California, San Francisco · California, Oakland

jagoff Slang

An annoying or contemptible person.

Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh · Illinois, Chicago

jawn Slang

A universal noun: thing, place, person, situation.

Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

no cap Slang

No lie / for real.

Georgia, Atlanta · New York · California · Texas

packie Slang

A liquor store.

Massachusetts, Boston · New England

shaka Slang

A friendly hand gesture / greeting (also said aloud).

Excited, pumped.

Detroit.

Very (intensifier).

Massachusetts, Boston · New Hampshire · Maine · New England