The
SLANG
Dictionary
This slang dictionary seeks to support parents,
carers and professionals to better understand the
language young people may be using and support
them to safeguard young people.
It is important to recognise that if a young person uses this
language, it does not necessarily mean they are being exploited.
This resource aims to support parents, carers and professionals
to start conversations with young people and raise awareness
around this language.
Young people from the Birmingham Disrupting Exploitation
Programme have been consulted and their feedback has been
inputted into the resource. As there are regional dierences in the
language that young people use, this resource is tailored to those
from Birmingham and surrounding areas. However, it can be
used to inform parents, carers and professionals from dierent
areas as well.
Drugs
All White Bricks/Nose Whiskey/
White Chalk
Cocaine.
Bagging
Used to describe someone
packaging drugs for distribution.
Bando
A trap house (short for
abandoned house).
Bottle
To insert something into your
rectum or vagina for later retrieval
eg drugs.
Box
Large quantity of drugs (usually
costing thousands of pounds).
Bust
To do lines of cocaine.
Cunch – Country
Used to denote going to a
faraway area in order to sell
drugs (county lines).
Cunch
Out-of-town locations where
drugs can be sold.
Door/Key
A kilo of drugs.
Flippin Chickens
A ‘chicken’ is another word for
a kilo of cocaine. In some cities
the word is reserved specifically
for a kilo of crack and a ‘bird’
would be used for a kilo of raw
powder cocaine. The act of ‘flippin
chickens’ can simply mean
selling kilos of cocaine or crack
for a higher price than they were
purchased for. In some cities
‘flippin chickens’ is the act of
buying a kilo or more of cocaine
and cooking it and transforming
it into crack cocaine, this process
actually adds weight and volume
to final product, making it much
easier to turn a profit.
Going Country/Going Long
Going to a faraway area to
sell drugs.
Holding
Possessing drugs.
Hot Heroin
Poisoned to give to a
police informant.
Hustle
Attempt to obtain drug
customers.
Joey
A person employed by gang to sell
to customers.
Kester Plant
Drugs hidden in the rectum.
Light Tan Bricks
A brick of heroin.
Link
A contact or source for drugs.
Longline
A long line of cocaine.
Lucy
Another name for acid or LSD.
Make Up
The need to find more drugs.
Man
A source of supply or drug dealer.
Mule
A carrier or supplier of drugs.
OT
Out trapping/Out there.
Pass
A transfer of drugs or
drugs money.
Pebs
Class A drugs broken down
for distribution.
Pebs/Pebbles
Pellets of heroin, crack or steroids.
Pranging out
Paranoia coming from a drug
induced state.
Pusher
Seller of drugs.
Drugs
Rails
Lines of cocaine.
Scene
A place where drugs are used.
Score
To buy drugs.
Serving/Slanging/Flipping
The act of selling drugs.
Stu/Plug
To insert something into your
rectum or vagina for later retrieval
eg drugs.
Tra p
The area where drug deals are
carried out.
Trap House
Area or house usually and
frequently occupied by drug
dealers/drug users.
Trapping
Selling drugs on the street.
Woolies
A marijuana cigarette laced with
cocaine.
Wrap
Street quantity of heroin or
cocaine sold in small folded paper
bag or foil packets.
Weapons
April
A weapon.
Bells
Bullets.
Chete
Machete.
Bora/Borer/Ching/Dipper/
Rams/Ramsay
Knife.
Burner/Iron/Machine/Mash/
Matic/Scram/Spinner/Stick/
Strally/Strap/Tum-Tum/Wap
Gun.
Corn
Ammunition.
Dottie/Dumpy
Shotgun.
Hand Ting/Trey
Pistol.
Mac(k)
Automatic firearm.
Mop
Large gun.
Ox
Razor or blade.
Rambo
Large knife or machete.
Shank/Sword
A knife or blade weapon.
Spinner
Revolver.
Stones
Bullets or pellets of crack.
Strapping
Carrying a gun or firearm.
Te c
Handgun.
Violence
Bagging
Stabbing in the lower body.
Beef Tings
To start a conflict or fight.
Burst/Woosh
Shoot.
Cheng/Dipping
Stabbing.
Dipped/Swimming
Stabbed.
Driller
Shooter or gang member.
Drilling
Attacking, aggressing or invading.
Duppying
Killing.
Finessed/Stained/Sucked
When an individual has been
robbed for his possessions
eg drugs.
Frying/Wooshing
Shooting.
Got
Attacked or robbed.
Hitter
Gunman.
Ketchup
Blood.
Kwef
Violence.
Kwe
Kill with gun or knife.
Kweng
Cut or stabbed.
Leng
To shoot someone down.
Nank
Knife or stab
No Face
Masked or with identity
concealed.
Ooters
Shooters.
Op(ps)
Enemy.
Opp-block
Enemy territory.
Que
Kill with gun or knife.
Score
Kill or injure an enemy.
Scoreboard/Scorecard
A list of enemies killed, injured
or defeated.
Smoke
Kill.
Snitch
Informer.
Splash/Splash up/Splash down
Stab.
Squirt
Spray acid over someone.
Sticky
Dangerous.
?!*@
Prison
Police
Bird/Stretch
A term used to describe an
individual serving a long
prison sentence.
Box
Prison.
Can
Someone serving time in prison.
Canned/Nailed/Bagged
To be arrested.
Feds
Police.
Matrixed
Placed on the London Met police
gang database.
Ride Out For (Someone)
To defend, even if guilty.
Turn A Drum Over
Police search of a house.
Additional slang
24s
All day.
Active
Dependable associate.
Bait
Obvious.
Bare
Many.
Breeze O
Leave town/Disappear.
Certy
An individual who has gained
respect from his peers.
Cunther
Used by gangs to describe a
woman who is inferior to dogs.
Dinger
Stolen car used on a ride out
or glide.
Drawn Out
Involved in gang culture or under
pressure from street crime.
Fishing
Looking for victims.
Glide
Drive into enemy territory.
Gliding
Entering enemy territory.
Heeled
Possession of drugs or a weapon.
OJ/One Job
An individual who is proactive in
drugs supply or raining havoc on
his enemies.
Pave
Streets.
Riding dirty
Going out armed and/or in
possession of drugs.
Road
A person that makes money
illegitimately on the streets ie
selling drugs, cultivation etc
Additional slang
Scratch/Lizzies/Gwop/P’s
Money
Skate/Skeet/Leggin/
Ten Toes/Dasheen
Run away or escape.
Touring
Entering enemy territory.
Twanged
To coerce someone into doing
something or believing a story.
Washed
A term used to describe someone
who isn’t held in high regards.
Zanged
A term used for individuals who
have been deceived.
References
safeguardinghub.co.uk/gone-cunch-what-does-it-mean/
urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=flippin+chickens
telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/6521753/Drugs-slang-
what-police-must-learn-E-to-H.html
gq-magazine.co.uk/article/british-criminal-slang
theconversation.com/i-research-slang-to-help-solve-gang-crime-and-
its-clear-how-little-politicians-understand-115485
language-and-innovation.com/2019/03/06/knife-crime-and-gang-
slang/
language-and-innovation.com/2018/04/19/a-drill-dictionary/
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