The GramBook slang dictionary

#

6-7

Means nothing, and that is the joke. It started as a sound and a hand motion, spread through edits, and now works as pure noise for any moment that is vaguely chaotic. Asking a kid to explain it is the exact thing that makes you the unc.

Full entry →

A

aura

Your social standing, measured in vibes. You gain aura by being cool without appearing to try, and lose it the second the trying shows. Catching a dropped phone behind your back earns aura. Turning to check whether anyone saw spends all of it.

aura farming

Doing aura-positive things on purpose. The rain-window stare, the walk away from something dramatic without looking back. The system is built to punish visible effort, so a harvest survives only until somebody names it. One reply saying "farming" costs the whole crop.

Full entry →How to aura farm →

aura farmer

Someone who farms aura, said with affection or as an accusation depending on how obvious they are about it. The original is an eleven-year-old bow dancer from a pacu jalur boat race in Indonesia, who was not farming anything. He was at work.

How to aura farm →

aura points

The scoreboard version of aura, announced out loud by whichever friend is narrating your life in real time. "Minus 200 aura" is a full sentence and a final verdict. There is no referee and no appeals process. The points are invented. The points still rule your afternoon.

Full entry →

B

brainrot

Content repetitive and low-nutrition enough that watching it feels like being slowly rewritten. Also the name for the vocabulary that comes out of it. Used as a complaint and as a compliment, usually by the same person within an hour.

The 2026 roundup →

bussin

Very good, almost always about food. A 2021 word that survived by turning slightly ironic on its way out. Said straight in 2026 it reads as either nostalgic or forty. Nobody says "bussin bussin" anymore and we should all be grateful.

C

caught in 4k

Caught on camera doing the exact thing you denied, footage attached. The 4K is the point: the resolution is high enough that there is nothing left to argue about. The phrase almost never arrives without a receipt underneath it.

chat is this real

Said out loud, to nobody, when something in front of you is too stupid to process alone. Borrowed from streamers checking with their chat. Now used by people who have no chat, addressing a room, a phone, or the ceiling.

clanker

An insult for machines. Borrowed from Star Wars, where clone troopers used it for battle droids, then pointed at chatbots, AI slop and self-checkout kiosks. "Shut up, clanker" is a complete sentence. Whether it counts as a slur is the entire argument.

Full entry →Clanker insults →

clankerslop

AI output bad enough to have a smell. Clanker plus slop. It covers the six-fingered image, the 800-word answer that says nothing, and the reply that opens with "Great question!" Also written as clanker slop, which is the same word with a nap in it.

Full entry →

cooked

Finished, in trouble, past saving. "I'm cooked" before an exam. "He's cooked" while watching someone reply-guy his way into a ratio. "Let him cook" is unrelated and means roughly the opposite, which is the sort of thing English does on purpose.

crashout

A public loss of composure. Posting through a breakdown, replying to an ex at 2am, quitting a job in a quote-tweet. A crashout has a start time and an audience, and everyone watching files it under entertainment. "I'm about to crash out" is the only warning anyone gets.

D

delulu

Delusional, shortened and declawed. For anyone whose confidence has outrun the evidence, usually about a crush or a career plan. "Delulu is the solulu" started as a joke about manifesting and is now said with roughly sixty percent sincerity.

dirty clanker

The escalated form of clanker, aimed at a machine that has just wasted your time. Usually the kiosk, the chatbot that looped you back to the main menu, or the model that invented a citation. Adds no information. Helps enormously.

Full entry →

E

era

A phase, announced as though it were a season of television. "In my logging-off era." It reframes any behaviour as a deliberate arc rather than something that is simply happening to you, which is most of the appeal.

F

fairs

A flattened "fair enough," said with a small nod at something you have no intention of arguing with. Low-effort agreement. It went wide in mid-June off a handful of posts and may not survive to autumn, so use it now or skip it.

fanum tax

Taking a bite of someone's food without asking, named after a streamer who kept doing it on camera. It has drifted to mean any small toll collected on a friend, including money, fries, and half an hour of their evening.

G

glazing

Praising someone so hard it becomes uncomfortable to watch. The tell is volume: a normal compliment stops, glazing keeps going. Aimed most often at athletes, rappers, and whichever AI model somebody has decided to defend in public.

goop

Vague, gluey content you scroll past without registering. A cousin of brainrot with lower stakes. Goop is the filler between the things you actually opened the app for. You have watched an hour of it today and could not name a single piece.

gyatt

An exclamation about someone's rear, from a drawn-out "goddamn." Peaked in 2023 and now survives mostly as a punchline about people who still say it. A sighting in 2026 is either ironic or a warning sign.

H

hits different

Better than it has any right to be, in one specific set of circumstances. The same song at 3am hits different. It is a claim about the situation rather than the thing, which is why nobody argues with it. You cannot fact-check a vibe.

huzz

A stretched-vowel shortening of "hoes," from the same family that produced bruzz and chuzz. Mostly heard from boys narrating their own night like a nature documentary, and mostly repeated by people making fun of them.

I

ick

The small, specific thing that instantly ends an attraction. Rarely a real flaw. The way he ran for the bus. The way she said "yummy" about a salad. Icks are irrational by definition and non-negotiable in practice.

it's giving

Followed by whatever the thing resembles. "It's giving job interview." "It's giving hostage video." Out of ballroom and drag culture, now fully mainstream, and it works because the noun does all the insulting for you.

L

let him cook

Leave them alone, something is happening. Said about anyone mid-attempt whose plan you do not understand yet. The sarcastic version, deployed when the plan is visibly terrible, has almost overtaken the sincere one. Watch the tone.

looksmaxxing

Systematically optimising your appearance, from the reasonable end (sleep, sunscreen, a haircut that fits your head) to the deranged one. The suffix comes from gaming, where you max a stat. The community treats a face as a build.

lore

The accumulated backstory of a real person, discussed as if they were a franchise. "What's your lore?" means explain yourself from the beginning. Dropping lore is oversharing reframed as world-building, which makes it much easier to do.

M

mewing

Pressing your tongue flat against the roof of your mouth to sharpen your jawline. The science is thin. The gesture, a finger raised to the lips to signal "I cannot talk, I am mewing," has long outlived any interest in whether it works.

mid

Aggressively average, and somehow the most damning word in circulation. It works because there is no energy behind it. Something genuinely bad is still fun to argue about. Mid is just there, taking up space. Calling a film mid ends the conversation.

mogging

Standing next to someone and beating them on looks so plainly that the photograph does the talking. Out of looksmaxxing vocabulary. Usually claimed by the person who believes they won, which is its own kind of losing.

N

npc

Someone running on script: same opinions, same phrasing, no evidence of an interior life. From the non-player characters in games. A 2022 word that has settled into a stock insult, and it overlaps hard with clanker.

O

out of pocket

Wildly inappropriate, usually said with admiration. Reserved for the comment nobody expected and nobody can defend. Different from rude, which is boring. Out of pocket means the person cleared the bar for shocking and kept going.

P

pookie

A pet name applied to a boyfriend, a friend, a cat, or a stranger you are about to be condescending to. Affectionate on its face and devastating with the right delivery. There is no safe reading, only context.

R

ratio

When the replies to a post outnumber its likes, meaning the internet has collectively decided you are wrong. Typed as a reply, "ratio" is an attempt to start one. Getting ratioed for saying "ratio" is a documented outcome.

rizz

Charisma, specifically the romantic kind, with the useful syllables removed. You can have rizz, lose rizz, or be accused of unspoken rizz, which means it worked and you did nothing. Oxford made it word of the year in 2023, which started the clock.

S

sigma

The lone-wolf tier invented to sit outside the alpha and beta hierarchy, for men who wanted to win without joining anything. Now used almost entirely as a joke, in the tone of calling someone's awkward silence "sigma behaviour."

skibidi

From a series of shorts about singing heads in toilets. It means whatever the sentence needs it to mean, up to and including nothing. Its main job in 2026 is signalling that a piece of writing was made for children, or by an adult imitating one.

soft launch

Posting a partner without showing their face. A hand, a sleeve, a second coffee. The point is deniability: enough evidence for the people who already know, not enough to require an announcement. The hard launch, if it comes, is a separate event.

T

tin-skinned clanker

A clanker with an extra layer of contempt, lifted from trooper dialogue and aimed at machines that have failed at something a person would find easy. It sounds antique on purpose. That is half of why it lands.

Full entry →

touch grass

Go outside. Your opinion has been assembled entirely indoors. Aimed at anyone arguing too hard about something small. It works as a diagnosis rather than a counterargument, which is precisely why it is so annoying to answer.

U

unc

Uncle status, conferred on anyone whose references have aged out. You do not apply for it. You are informed. Saying a slang word correctly but a little too carefully is the fastest route, which is the main occupational hazard of reading a slang dictionary.

Y

yapping

Talking a lot, to no clear end. A "yap session" can be affectionate. "Stop yapping" never is. It has quietly become the standard complaint about any block of text longer than four lines, including this one.