Found on SJ today………

(these are mostly from London, England and surrounding cities)

Urban Slang For Young People In The Noughties Volume 1

Skeng-gun (‘skeng blaze on a regular basis’ diamond clik)
Benners-ten pounds worth of weed, about one and a half grams (‘I’m where50 cent be, in da club with no bub, just Hennessey and benners of weed’ kano)
Chung-good, potent, good weed, stoned. (‘chunged out, smoking chocolate, commerch’ shark major)
Shot/blot-sell drugs (‘shotters, blotters and HMP’ dizzee ras)
Eat/yam-rob (‘like Monopoly I’m eating your propety’ Capo)
Work-cocaine/crack, or, more generally, drugs (‘’I can see the work in your face’ crazy titch)
Bait-dodgy, suspect (‘you look bait on road’ fuming)
Bow cat-cunnilingus practitioner (‘I ain’t a bowcat, I don’t like the smell’ dizzee ‘heads high, kill em with the no, just mek a boy know you nah bow’ mr vegas)
Blurt-leave
Merk-murder, kill, destroy, literally or in a clash (‘merk dem quickly, merk dem slow, watch their soul go straight below’ lady fury)
Bubbles-nike airs
Buff-good, good looking, sexy (‘she might be buff but she’s not rough’ dizzee)
Commersh/commercial-shit bush weed (‘you get blazed like commercial, I ain’t gonna lie I take that shit personal’ demon)
Ash-hash
Ends/manor-your area (‘are you really from the ends?’ the ends)
Feds-police
Bore-stab
Rags/raggo/aggie-aggressive, uncompromising
White-coke/brown-heroin (‘white and brown bring trouble, and boy you’re left in blood puddle’ doogz)
Bare-a lot of
Yatties-girls (‘big laces, low batties, that’s how I go when I’m drawing the yatties’ storming)
Rebore-coverted airgun (‘you got a rebore, bus’ that’ demon)
Monk/punk-skunk
On road-out and about
Speng-fool
Flopping-failing (‘I can’t really see us flopping’ shark major)
Armour-bullet proofs
Switch-get angry, flip (‘tell them to free titchie my little bredder, before I switch like English weather’ doogz)
link-meet up with
par-hang around with (‘we don’t link with them we don’t par with them’ armour)

some of them are funny – although in a way depressing to see so many references to crime, violence and firearms.

OK Cockney rhyming slang and old skool london street talk / ravers talk had plenty of chat about crime, doing time etc but “shooters” were still rare even 10 years ago.

dis is what da yout is chatting about – & I thought socciety is supposed to progress over the years… :confused: