The Ghetto Dictionary

Beckiboo

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Quite long, but had me in tears of laughter! Or should I say... Dis thread be boom ting! :lol:
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For those of us who feel out of touch with lyrics being spat in the ends, fear no more, this group will help you regain face in your manor, giving you the vocab to impress even the most discerning of rudeboys.

Members are encouraged to keep an ear to the street and report novel usage.

A

ah nam - tell on, rat on.

armshouse - used in the context of a confrontation or altercation with an individual or a group: "Do you want armshouse? If so, then bring your mans for armshouse!"

B

back slang - a code which uses the original spelling of words and adds extra letters and syllables for effect or to disguise the real meaning. The rap lyric "shizzle my nizzle", which confounded a High Court judge, is one such example.

bait - obvious, as in "that's so bait".

bare - a lot of, very. In the case of a man or woman described as bare butters, see below.

batty don - gay boy literal transation - boss of the arse.

bayden - rich, financially stable, solvent.

beast - an adjective to describe something that's really cool.

beef - a hostile disagreement that may result in violence.

bennin - to be in a state of extreme laughter.

blam - gun, also blammer.

blazing - to smoke a spliff

book - cool. The first option given in predictive text when trying to type c-o-o-l.

booooom booooom - a slogan of approval in inner-city London. There was much debate during the election campaign about whether Tony Blair was booed or boomed at the Lilian Bayliss Technology School in London.

boyed- u got boyed. same as getting merked.

brap - [burrrr-AP] often used repeatedly and loudly. A sign of approval. Roughly translates as "i do approve my dear fellow". Probably not a norfolk colloquialism, but something you might hear down shicagooos on a Saturday night.

breeze - ****, as in "manz chattin bare breeze cuz."

buff - sexy, fit.

build - [bill] to roll a spliff:"my grandma taught me to build zoots, get me."

bum - to enjoy something: "he bums that game so much".

bummage - to really like something is to "bum it blue", but "he bummed it black" means he used to like it but has since gone off it.

butters - ugly (pronounced without sounding the t's).

buzzing - cool.

C

chief - an idiot: "look at dat chief man, finkin hes all bad."

chirps - chat up: "we chirps some buff gals last night."

criss - good, sharp, new. almost onomatoepaeic as in 'crisp'.

chung - extremely sexy. If someone is described as "chung", that's better-looking than
their "buff" friend.

clappin' - out of date or worn out, usually to describe attire or accessories, as in "man, my tracksuit is clappin'. Gotta get down JJB Sport and buy a new one." Also means tired out.

cotch - to hang out, relax, chill out or sleep. Possibly derived, via patois, from the French "se coucher", meaning to lie down. See also kotch.

crepes - shoes or trainers: "check out deez heavy crepes." assume its as you 'wrap your feet' in them.

crump - a multi-purpose term which can be an insult, an exclamation and a rather explicit sex act. It generally means bad, but can also mean good, depending on the context: "that ain't good man, it's crump" or "that's one crump message you left there".

crutterz - mashed up, worn out "That girls looking crutterz/ that car is crutterz"

D

dash - to dash is to pass something to somebody - but it can be "pass" in the broadest possible sense, including to throw violently with the intention of causing hurt or damage.

dred - dreadful, terrible, bad, cruel.

drum - humble abode, home.

dry - dull, boring, stupid, unfunny. A bad joke might be described as "dry".

F

fassy - a fellow renound for cowardice also vagina (see pussy). Fassy is patois and a term originating from Jamaica where the original term fassy hole referred to a womans vagina that was covered with an eczema type rash.

feds - police. Taken from the US word for the FBI.

flat roofin' - to be overworked and stressed, as in "I was flat roofin for my GCSEs". Probably comes from flat out.

fo sho - "urban" version of yes, for sure, certainly.
from ends - one who is "from the streets" and so knows what's going on.

fudge - a very, very stupid person indeed - the implication being that these letters will be their GCSE results.

G

garms - clothing.

ghetto gagger - a hoodrat bitch who gives head to many men. Legend has it that a mysteriously ****ing wierd looking batty named Bashir Falconer is the most prolific ghetto gagger ever to have worked the streets of London, clocking up 12,000 blowjobs on men, dogs and other membered beast. You will recognise this ghetto gagger from his strange pasty complexion and his rat like features caused by his myriad drug habits.

ginuls/jinels - fixed up or conned by someone/something, or, used to describe something that is a con: " dem phones 4 u deals are a jinels". Also to "bump".

grimy - good, or may describe a practical joke or amusing - and probably unsavoury - act.

Gyaldem - Alternative term for Girls

H

hangin - ugly, most likely with an unattractive body and bad dress sense to boot.

heavy - cool, interesting.

hectic - good

howling - ugly.

J

jack - to steal or take, as in "car-jacking".

jankro - an unfortuanetly meagre/marga individual who behaves in a manner that is deemed unnacceptable in the "manners"...i.e evades the street code.

jokes - funny or enjoyable, as in "that party was jokes".

jook - to stab or to steal.

K

kotch - sit and chill out. See also cotch.

L

laow dat - forget that.

lean - high, stoned from weed.

linkage - to meet someone, to hook up with them. Also link.

lipsed - to kiss: "dat yat is crutterz, i wouldnt lipsed dat."

long - a task that involves more effort than the object is worth: "Allow dat butters sket, shes long." (aslo longting)

lush - good-looking, sexy.

M

marga - a girl who is too skinny

mint - cool. Self-explanatory, surely.

move - criminal undertaking: "I had to do one move to get the p's, get me."

munter - ugly. An alternate to minger, which has long since passed into the mainstream since its first recorded use in 1995.

murk - to kick the **** out of someone: "watch, for I murk you. chief!."

Mandem - Alternative term for Boys

N

nang - London term for cool, excellent, brilliant. When something is very good, it's "proper nang". Originates from the surname of a chinese student in a south London school whose school friends used to say: "ahh, nang your nang".

neek - being a boring nerdy person: "Man your neek, you're not into traipsing around the streets of south-east London in a nike tracksuit with 'Lady Fiaskoe' emblazoned down the side." A neek is a hybrid of the words 'nerd' and 'geek'.

nim nim nim - blah blah blah; yadda yadda yadda. What's said when someone is talking rubbish.

O

on top - when a situation is out of control.

off the hook - cool, appealing, fresh, exceeding one's expectations. A phrase much over-used by Maxwell in Big Brother to express appreciation for his surroundings, for an attractive member of the opposite sex.

owned - to be made a fool of, to be beaten by. Can also be spelled "pwned", to denote a common spelling error in online gaming slang.

P

penging - [peng-ing] strong smelling weed and usually implies high strength:"I got some penging high grade blud".

press - to have sex, empowers male role in sex: "dat sket got pressed."

R

rago - whatever, OK. (aslo rags)

ragsed - dealt with: "That breh got ragsed up" (That youth received a hefty beating) "That chick got ragsed" (That girl got a less than romantic seeing to)

rents - parents.

rinsed - overused, used up, all gone. "That song was rinsed, I don't like it anymore."

roll with - hang out with.

S

safa - coolest of the cool, superlative version of safe (see below).

safe - cool, good, sweet.

shabby - cool, smart, "da bomb". As in "that's a well shabby suit."

shot - to sell, often used to describe selling drugs: "my man is da top shotta."

sick - interesting, cool, never seen before. The more sick something is, the better. This usage originated with skaters and snowboarders.

sick-ed - someone with an impresive aptiude or skill or slightly mad

sik - see sick.

skeen - I see. Also seen.

sket - a lady who is known for being loose of vritue.

slap up - to beat up. Hence the happy slapping craze in which feral youths attack passers-by and film it on their mobiles.

standard - goes without saying.

swag - extreme, scary. A word which once denoted ill-gotten gains and then freebies - particularly branded merchandise - it can also be used as an adjective for something frightening.

switch - to turn on someone.

T

tell over/told over - to rat on someone.

U

unass - to relinquish or surrender control of an object or person; to leave.

V

vexed - irritated, angry. An old word, it has gained new currency, as demonstrated by Science in Big Brother to express his annoyance with some triviality or other.

W

wagwaan - what's up, what's going on. Originates from
Jamaican patois.

watch - dont mess, used rhetorically. means: watch what will happen if you come barking up this tree pussy **** ill probably beat in your face with my bottle of supermalt.

wasteman - a person with little desire to achieve things in life.

wicked - cool. Yes, 30-somethings who remember it from their own school days, it has made a comeback. Can also mean very, thus something can be described as "wicked cool".

Y

yard - house, garden, where one lives and hangs out.

your mum - a comeback to a question or insult. An implied affront to one's mother, which may be taken as an ineffectual insult or may result in grievous bodily harm. All meaning is implied (see watch).

Z

zoot - a spliff:"Yo blud, send me on dat zoot." (also zootage)

Numbers

110s - Expensive trainers that cost £110 or more.

5 0 - police.
 
Which reminds of the epsiode of the Bill where the the young white copper who lived with a black girl and smoked the odd spliff defused a riot on the Broadwater Farm-alike 'Jasmine Allen' Estate by speaking da lingo to da yoot!
 
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