A to Z

The dictionary

Every term we have written up, slang and tech alike, listed alphabetically. 27 entries and counting. Terms from the Tech & AI section are tagged.

0-9

  • 5201314 I love you for a lifetime
  • 555 Change in numerology, laughter in Thai

A

  • AI agenttech An AI system that plans and carries out tasks
  • AI sloptech Mass-produced, low-quality AI-generated content

B

  • Baddie A confident, striking person

C

  • Clankertech A derogatory word for a robot or AI
  • Crash out To lose your temper or self-destruct publicly

D

F

  • FT Usually FaceTime

G

  • Glazing Excessive, fawning praise
  • GNG Short for gang
  • GTS Usually going to sleep

H

I

  • Ick A sudden feeling of repulsion towards someone you fancied
  • ICL Short for I can’t lie

L

  • LLMtech Large language model
  • Lock in To focus completely on a task
  • LWK Short for low-key

M

  • MBN Short for must be nice

P

R

  • RAGtech Retrieval-augmented generation
  • Rizz Short for charisma

T

  • Tokentech A chunk of text, often part of a word

V

  • Vibe codingtech Coding by prompting AI and accepting what it writes

Y

  • Yap To talk at length, often pointlessly