Slang words: R
595 slang and Internet words starting with R, each with its slang meaning. Trending slang
- R'n'RRock and roll.
- R+L=JThe theory that the character Jon Snow, initially presented in A Song of Ice and Fire/Game of Thrones as the...
- r0x0rTo rock: to be very good or favourable, to excel.
- R2-D2The Phalanx CIWS, an automated gun-based close-in weapon system to defend military watercraft against...
- rabbiA senior officer who acts as a mentor.
- rabbit onTo talk for an exceedingly long time, annoying the audience.
- rabbit trailA non-urban area that is challenging to traverse for non-local people.
- rabizA member of an Armenian hillbilly subculture embracing rabiz music, exhibiting materialistic flamboyancy...
- raccoonsonaA fursona that is a raccoon.
- race queenA glamorous model accompanying the pit crew in Japanese motor racing.
- racenicityA social construct combining race and ethnicity.
- RachachaNickname for Rochester: a city in New York, United States.
- rackA bunk.
- racketA carouse; any reckless dissipation.
- rackety-clacketyMaking or producing much noise; noisy.
- racktacularPossessing amazing, outstanding, or impressive breasts.
- racktasticPossessing especially attractive or impressive breasts.
- radblrThe community of radical feminists on Tumblr.
- radicalExcellent; awesome.
- radiclibA radical liberal.
- radicoolCool, awesome.
- radioThe continuous broadcasting of sound via the Internet in the style of traditional radio.
- radio carSynonym of police car.
- radio rentalMental; crazy; insane.
- radio shackA room for hosting radio equipment.
- radiotrackerAny of several devices that augment access to Internet radio sites.
- radnessExcellence.
- radtwtThe community of radical feminists on Twitter.
- raftA slice of toast.
- ragSanitary napkins, pads, or other materials used to absorb menstrual discharge.
- rag outTo dress up.
- rag-chewingAmong Morse code operators, a longer-than-usual conversation.
- ragamuffinA hooligan or troublemaker.
- RagapomSynonym of Jesterdoll.
- rageTo party hard; to have a good time.
- rage cleanTo clean therapeutically in order to calm down when feeling angry.
- rage comicA short cartoon strip using a growing set of pre-made cartoon faces which usually express rage or some other...
- rage hackTo blatantly cheat in an online game.
- rage hackerA hacker (cheater who uses a hacked game client) who cheats blatantly.
- rage-postingA ragepost.
- rageaholicA person with a highly volatile temper.
- ragebaitContent that intentionally provokes anger or fear in order to increase viewership or interaction.
- rageholicA person with a highly volatile temper.
- ragepostTo post on online platforms with the primary intention of expressing intense anger or frustration, often to...
- ragequitThe act of quitting an online video game in anger.
- ragequitterOne who ragequits.
- ragerA boisterous and out of control party.
- ragoWild, out of control.
- raidAn activity initiated at or towards the end of a live broadcast by the broadcaster that sends its viewers to...
- railTo snort a line of powdered drugs.
- rail hailHail accelerated to high speeds by heavy winds.
- railbirdA gambler; originally specifically a horseracing enthusiast.
- rainbowIn Texas hold 'em or Omaha hold 'em, a flop that contains three different suits.
- rainbow familyThe LGBT+ community as a whole.
- rainbow showerThe act in which a participant vomits or regurgitates on another for sexual gratification.
- raincoatA condom.
- rajamuffinSynonym of Raggastani.
- rakeA lot, plenty.
- rake it inTo make a lot of money.
- rake-steppingThe act of repeatedly making damaging and avoidable mistakes.
- ralphTo vomit.
- ramTo thrust during sexual intercourse.
- ram-donJjapaguri/chapaguri; a dish made from the combination of two Korean instant noodle brands.
- rampTo swindle or rob violently.
- randomBeing out of the ordinary; unusual or unexpected; odd, strange, bizarre.
- randumbBoth random and stupid; having the nature of a foolish non sequitur.
- randy mandiesSynonym of mandies (“the drug methaqualone”).
- rankoutSynonym of snap (“an insult of the kind used in the African-American verbal game of the dozens”).
- rantsonaA persona, typically an animated character, used on a YouTube commentary video that features rants or...
- rapA charge, whether or not it results in a conviction.
- rap atTo talk to; to communicate with; to tell of important things.
- rap downTo rappel down a mountain.
- rapedollSynonym of rapetoy.
- rapetoyA submissive sexual partner willing to be used indiscriminately by others.
- rapheadA fan of rapping or rap music.
- rapmeisterA highly skilled rapper.
- rapophileOne who loves rap music.
- raptivistA rapper who is involved in political and/or social activism.
- Raquel WelchA three and an eight as starting cards in Texas hold 'em.
- rareCool; excellent.
- rarepairA ship that generally receives little attention from fans and has few associated fanworks.
- rark upTo provoke or hurry (someone) into doing something.
- raspberry ripplesNipples (of a woman).
- raspberry tartA fart.
- rasperA fence that is challenging for a horse to jump over.
- rassingThe transfer of fuel, munitions, or stores from one vessel to another while under way.
- RastituteA male sex worker in the Caribbean, catering to female sex tourists.
- ratA ration.
- rat bikeA motorcycle maintained at the lowest possible cost and usually painted black.
- rat houseA mental hospital.
- rat packA juvenile criminal gang.
- rat stacheA thin, sparse, or patchy mustache; the wispy facial hair common among younger men, during the early stages...
- rat-raceTo rat run, that is, to drive on side streets, often at high speeds, to avoid traffic.
- ratbagA mischievous person, especially a child.
- ratchet jawAn excessively talkative CB radio user; a chatterbox.
- ratioTo respond to a post or message on social media in a greater number than the number of likes the post...
- ratioedHaving significantly more replies than retweets or likes, indicating a general dislike by the public.
- ratsonaA fursona that is a rat.
- rattailA towel that has been tightly twisted along the diagonal to make a rudimentary whip with a towel corner at...
- rattedSynonym of drunk.
- rattleTo experience withdrawal from drugs.
- rattle one's hocksTo hurry up; to get moving.
- rattoAn affectionate term for a pet rat.
- raunchfestA very raunchy event, film, etc.
- ravageTo have vigorous sexual intercourse with.
- rawWithout a condom.
- rawrAn expression of great appreciation, a happy imitation of a roar, often to emphasize attraction.
- raxBarracks.
- razz someone's berriesTo impress somebody.
- razzedFull of energy or enthusiasm.
- razzledDrunk.
- RCTAA person who has made such a change: a transracial person.
- re-upTo take another dose.
- reachTo arrive at a particular destination, especially to join someone; to meet up.
- reactTo post a reaction (icon or emoji indicating how one feels about a posted message).
- reactionAn icon or emoji appended to a posted message by a user to express their feeling about it.
- reaction imageAn image used in lieu of text, emoticons or emojis to express one's physical reaction or emotional state.
- read offTo scold or reprimand.
- read someone's beadsTo read someone; to call attention to the flaws of (someone) in either a playful, a taunting, or an insulting...
- read the carOf a rideshare driver, to assess the mood, energy, or preferences of a passenger immediately after they enter...
- read upTo read previous or higher-up messages in a chat; to backread.
- readaholicOne who loves to read books; a bookworm.
- readerMarked playing cards used by cheaters.
- reading is techUsed to suggest to a forum participant that reading the appropriate documentation or other material would...
- readyReady money; cash.
- ready to rollOf a person, machine, vehicle, or plan, fully prepared to begin functioning and operating.
- realSignifying meritorious qualities or actions, especially with regard to genuineness, groundedness, and true...
- real and straightTrue, authentic.
- real goneOutrageously cool, wild and carefree.
- real jamAnything exceptionally good.
- real oneA trustworthy friend.
- Real ProgrammerAn archetypal highly skilled programmer, who eschews abstractions and convenient modern tools and methods of...
- real talkSerious communication, especially (interjection) to mark such communication in contrast to previous small...
- realerA player of real tennis.
- reamTo yell at or berate.
- rear admiralA proctologist.
- rear endThe buttocks.
- Rebecca purpleA medium purple color represented by the hexadecimal RGB triplet #663399.
- rebirthingThe practice of transferring identifying parts of a wrecked car (registration plates, compliance plate, etc.)...
- reblogThe reposting of something previously posted on another blog.
- rec.gamerA participant in the Usenet newsgroup rec.games.
- recceReconnaissance.
- reccoReconnaissance.
- reccyReconnaissance.
- receipt(A piece of) evidence (e.g. documentation or screen captures) of past wrongdoing.
- reception wikiA type of informal online wiki assessing the good and bad points of a topic in bullet points.
- recessThe place in a prison where the communal lavatories are located.
- recession hairA trend or phenomenon in which women stop paying for expensive hair treatments to save money during an...
- recipromanticExperiencing romantic attraction only to people known to reciprocate one's feelings.
- recommendationContent which is automatically recommended to a user by the suggestion algorithm of a website or app.
- recommendedThe list of auto-recommended content (most often videos) presented to a particular user by a website's (or...
- recompositionSynonym of terramation (“a process for the final disposition of human remains”).
- reconReconnaissance.
- recrawlTo crawl again.
- rectangledTangled (from a rebracketing of "rectangle" as "rec tangle").
- redThe drug secobarbital; a capsule of this drug.
- red ballA high-profile high-priority case which draws political or media attention.
- red biddyA cheap alcoholic drink made by mixing red wine and methylated spirit.
- red devilA capsule of secobarbital sodium, especially when used as a recreational drug.
- Red Dragon BookThe first edition of Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools (1986), a notable textbook about compiler...
- red flagA cue, warning, or alert; a sign or signal that something is wrong.
- red hatA senior army officer.
- red horseCorned beef.
- red inkCheap red wine.
- red leadTomato ketchup.
- red linkA red hyperlink that directs to a potential page (one not yet created) of a wiki.
- red pillSomething that causes someone to believe in gynocentrism in modern society.
- red pilledHaving taken the red pill.
- red pillerOne who believes that society is gynocentric.
- red pipeAn artery.
- red rocketAny of the red-painted electrical streetcars and subway trams operated by the Toronto Transit Commission in...
- Red Roof InnOne of the outhouses with a red metal roof that have been built across Philmont Scout Ranch.
- red roomA purported kind of online forum where livestreams or videos of torture and murder can be viewed over the...
- red under the bedAn insidious communist presence; a communist who has infiltrated capitalist society.
- red wingsAn instance of a male getting menstrual fluid on his face while performing cunnilingus.
- red-assedVery angry; furious.
- red-eyeA strong but poor-quality whiskey.
- red-linkedMarked by a red link (a hyperlink that directs to a nonexistent wiki page).
- redbackThe yuan (CNY), the currency of the People's Republic of China (Red Chinese money).
- redbirdA capsule of secobarbital.
- redcoatA fox.
- redirectionThe automated process of taking a user to a location other than the one selected.
- redneckismThe beliefs or behaviours of rednecks.
- redophileA person who is attracted to redheads.
- redshirtAn unimportant character introduced only to be killed in order to underscore the peril to the important...
- redskirtAn unimportant or expendable female character, especially one introduced only to be killed in order to...
- redstonerA person who builds redstone contraptions in Minecraft.
- reefTo manipulate the lining of a person's pocket in order to steal the contents unnoticed.
- reef breakA wave that breaks over a projection from the seabed formed from coral reef or rock shelf.
- reeferMarijuana.
- reel pullAn extraordinarily weird, obscure, or random video on Instagram Reels or TikTok.
- reemCool, excellent; desirable; sexy.
- refbackThe use of the optional HTML referer header to obtain information about web pages or proxy servers bringing...
- referralA document used by schools detailing some form of a student's misbehavior and listing the actions taken...
- referral spamSynonym of referrer spam.
- referrerThe URL from which a user agent was referred to another URL.
- referrer spamA form of spam in which the spammer visits a site while using a fake referrer URL containing advertising...
- refsA scheduled meal break during a shift.
- refsheetAn image showing an original character from different angles, intended to be used as a reference when drawing...
- Reg GrundysUndies.
- reggieBeing regular marijuana, as opposed to good-quality marijuana.
- reginaldsUndies.
- registrarA service that manages the reservation of domain names.
- regsLow-grade or commercial-grade marijuana.
- Regulation CharlieA person who strictly enforces all rules, without exception.
- reheat someone's nachosTo recreate or emulate something done before; to rehash; usually refers to celebrities or influencers.
- rehiHello again.
- rejerkTo make a new post in or renew participation in a circlejerk again after participants had unjerked.
- relationshipperA person who supports a romantic or sexual relationship between fictional characters or real people.
- relationshippyRelating to, resembling, or describing a (romantic) relationship.
- relaxaconAn informal science fiction convention with no schedule.
- relevantFamous, popular, or noteworthy in a contemporary context.
- relfieA self-taken photograph of PDA (public display of affection).
- relieverA garment kept for being lent out.
- relogTo log out and log in again.
- remailerAn email service that forwards on the text of emails without identifying information, as a means of providing...
- RemainiacOne who opposes the idea of Brexit and wishes the United Kingdom to remain a member of the European Union.
- rememberizeTo memorize and remember.
- Remington raiderAn office clerk.
- remortTo start over or reincarnate as a beginner-level character (while keeping former classes, experience points...
- remote proxyA proxy that controls access to a remote object.
- removalMurder.
- renA non-binary parent.
- renderitePossibly ambiguous material that is depicted in a rendering of an architectural work.
- RennieA person who makes their living traveling the renaissance circuit.
- rennyA non-binary parent.
- rent-a-dreadA male sex worker in the Caribbean, catering to female sex tourists.
- rent-freeUsed to respond to a comment or post the user perceives as demonstrating that the commenter or poster is...
- rent-lowering gunshotAn action, often with a potential perceived negative quality, performed to drive people away.
- rentagubA paid spokesperson.
- renter(Synonym of rent boy) Male prostitute.
- reopTo restore (a previously deopped IRC user) to operator status.
- reply-pingTo ping someone by replying to a previous message of theirs.
- repo depotA replacement depot.
- repostTo post again.
- repple deppleA replacement depot.
- Republic of ExampleSynonym of Examplestan.
- reputation systemA program or algorithm that allows users to rate each other in online communities in order to build trust...
- rerockSaid about a garment, to rewear it with a different outfit, to rock it again.
- resenteeismThe fact of remaining present in a job due to job security despite feeling unhappy and unfulfilled.
- reshareThe act of sharing previously shared material again, so as to reach a further group of users.
- resimercialOf an office space: resembling an at-home working space.
- resource hogA process which consumes a large amount of system resources compared to its importance or function.
- resource pigA resource hog.
- respawnIn reality shifting and subliminal communities, to permanently leave one's current reality (often through a...
- respecTo reallocate the distribution of skill points on a character's skill tree, changing their specialization.
- respiderTo spider again.
- RESTafarianA programmer who uses REST (Representational State Transfer).
- retpolineA code construct that uses return operations to prevent speculative execution.
- retreadA person who re-entered military service in World War II after serving in World War I.
- retromodTo retromoderate.
- retromoderateTo moderate (a newsgroup) by initially allowing all posts through and later issuing cancellations of those...
- retromoderationThe process of retromoderating.
- retroslopEspecially on the video game platform Roblox, messy or inauthentic attempts at retro avatar or game styles.
- retrospectoscopeA hypothetical instrument that allows diagnostic and management decisions to be made with medical hindsight.
- retrospectroscopeSynonym of retrospectoscope.
- retrotopiaAn ideal society inspired by a premodern one.
- retrotortA witty remark that one thinks of when it is too late.
- retvrnTo return to the aesthetics or traditions of an earlier historical era.
- retweetableLiable to be retweeted.
- retweeterOne who retweets.
- rev upTo make (someone or something) more active; to energize.
- revdelThe action of deleting revisions of a page from public view, a function available to administrators.
- reverse gangbangSexual intercourse involving more than two women in which one man is the central focus.
- reverse image searchThe querying of the origin of an image by inputting the file into a search engine or database.
- reverse pedophileA young person who is physically attracted to older people.
- reverserA reverse-engineer.
- revert warA dispute on a wiki or in a source control repository where two users repeatedly revert one another's changes.
- review bombTo give something a deluge of negative user reviews.
- revoiceTo restore the voice flag to (a user), allowing them to send messages to the channel again.
- revved upEnergized.
- revvingA technique for reducing web page loading times by assigning far-future expiration dates to the resources on...
- Rex HuntAn extremely unpleasant or objectionable person.
- ReyloA shipper of Rey and Kylo Ren.
- RGBRGB lighting; lights (especially LEDs) able to display a wide range of colors by being able to individually...
- RhaenicentThe ship of characters Rhaenyra Targaryen and Alicent Hightower from Fire & Blood and its television...
- rhythm and bluesShoes.
- rib-ticklerA ball bowled short of a length that bounces up higher than expected and strikes the batter in the ribs.
- ribbieSynonym of run batted in.
- ribbonReins for a horse.
- RibbunThe ship of characters Jax and Gangle from the web animation series The Amazing Digital Circus.
- ribeyeA run batted in.
- ribroastTo beat up vigorously.
- riceAn instance of customization of a user interface.
- rice bowlA jealously defended institutional resource such as a program, project, or budget.
- rice boxA cheap Asian-made electronic device.
- rice carRice burner.
- rice outTo modify a car to make it appear faster or more sporty; to turn a car into a rice burner.
- RichonneThe ship of characters Rick Grimes and Michonne from the television series The Walking Dead.
- ricingThe act of customizing the user interface of a computer system.
- rickrollAn act of or attempt at rickrolling.
- rickrolleeSomeone who gets rickrolled; the target of a rickroll.
- rickrollerSomeone who rickrolls; a person who tricks people into listening to Rick Astley's song "Never Gonna Give You...
- Rico SuaveA snappily dressed, cool, confident Latino lady's man.
- rideTo mount (someone) to have sex with them.
- ride byTo do a drive-by shooting.
- ride dirtyTo travel in a vehicle while possessing contraband, usually firearms or drugs.
- ride down onTo approach (someone or a place) aggressively in a vehicle, such as for a drive-by; to drive up to (someone)...
- ride forTo have someone's back, support wholeheartedly.
- ride hard and put away wetTo have vigorous sex with (someone).
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Slang meanings adapted from the Wiktionary entry of each word (English slang). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the words, left out vulgar and offensive ones, and linked each to its full entry. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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