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Glossary of Terms
| Term/Phrase | Meaning |
| All White Bricks | Cocaine |
| April | A weapon |
| Bagging | Used to describe someone packaging drugs for distribution. |
| Bagging | Stabbing the lower body |
| Bando | A building used as a base from where drugs are sold (or sometimes manufactured). These houses usually are occupied by someone (usually adult drug users but sometimes young people are forced to stay in trap houses). |
| Bando | A trap house (short for abandoned house). |
| Beef Tings | To start a conflict or fight |
| Bells | Bullets |
| Bora | A Knife |
| Borer | A Knife |
| 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 |
| Catfishing | Catfishing is when someone uses false images and information to create a new identity online. It is technically not a crime but elements of the activity can be criminal. If a victim hands over money, the “catfish” could be prosecuted for fraud, or if someone uses a fake profile to post offensive messages or doctored images |
| Cheffing | Stabbing |
| Chete | Machete |
| Ching | A Knife |
| Cocaine | an addictive drug derived from coca or prepared synthetically, common slang terms are All White Bricks/Nose Whiskey/White Chalk |
| Corn | Ammunition |
| County Lines | County lines is a form of Child Criminal Explotation where criminal gangs set up a drug dealing operation in a place outside their usual operating area. Gangs will move their drug dealing from big cities (e.g. London, Manchester, Liverpool etc.) to smaller towns in order to make more money. This can have a really big effect on the community who live there and bring with it serious criminal behaviour. |
| Cuckooing | Cuckooing is when drug gangs take over the home of a vulnerable person through violence and intimidation, using it as their base for selling/manufacturing drugs. |
| Cunch | Out-of-town locations where drugs can be sold. |
| Cunch – Country | Used to denote going to a faraway area in order to sell drugs (county lines). |
| Debt Slavery / debt Bondage / Drug Debt | These are terms used to describe a type of financial exploitation of a young person. A young person may be forced to work to pay off a debt that they owe. However, sometimes a County Lines group may use deception to trick a young person into believing they have a debt to pay when in reality they don’t. |
| Dipper | A Knife |
| Door/Key | A kilo of drugs. |
| Driller | Shooter or gang member |
| Fishing | Looking for victims |
| Flippin Chickens | A ‘chicken’ is another word for a kilo of cocaine. The act of ‘flippin chickens’ can simply mean selling kilos of cocaine or crack for a higher price than they were purchased for or the act of buying a kilo or more of cocaine and cooking it and transforming it into crack cocaine |
| G | A gram of illegal drugs |
| G – Checked | To test someones G or Gangsta. To ensure they are indeed the gangsta they are presenting themself as. Often seen as highly disrespectful. |
| Glide | Drive into enemy territory |
| Going Country | This is the most popular term that describes county lines activity. It can also mean the act of travelling to another city/town to deliver drugs or money. |
| Going Cunch | This is the most popular term that describes county lines activity. It can also mean the act of travelling to another city/town to deliver drugs or money. |
| Going Long | Going to a faraway area to sell drugs. |
| Home Invasion (Cuckooing) | Taking over the home of a vulnerable member of the community to use and sell illegal drugs from. The person whose home has been taken over may be exploited in a number of different ways by the County Lines group, including criminally, sexually and financially. |
| Joey | A person employed by gang to sell to customers. |
| Kester Plant | Drugs hidden in the rectum. |
| Ketchup | Blood |
| Key/Door | A kilo of drugs. |
| Knife Crime | Any crime that involves the use of a sharpened weapon or blade |
| Kwef | Violence |
| Kweng | Cut or Stabbed |
| Nank | Knife or stab |
| Nose Whiskey | Cocaine |
| OBS | This refers to opposition as in a rivalling neighbourhood gang. |
| OPPO | This refers to opposition as in a rivalling neighbourhood gang. |
| OT | This is the most popular term that describes county lines activity. It can also mean the act of travelling to another city/town to deliver drugs or money. |
| Ox | Razor Blade |
| Pebbles | Pellets of heroin, crack or steroids. |
| Pebs | Class A drugs broken down for distribution. |
| Plugging | This is where things have been concealed for transporting usually inserted into the rectum or vagina. |
| Q | A quarter of an ounce of drugs |
| Ramsay | A Knife |
| Sexting | Sexting is when someone sends or receives a sexually explicit text, image or video. This includes sending ‘nude pics’, ‘rude pics’, or ‘nude selfies’. |
| Shotter | A drug dealer |
| Show us your bar-code’ | which is a reference to asking to see a person’s self-harming scars or wounds |
| Spinner | Revolver |
| Strapping | Carrying a gun or firearm |
| Tec | Handgun |
| Trap House | A building used as a base from where drugs are sold (or sometimes manufactured). These houses usually are occupied by someone (usually adult drug users but sometimes young people are forced to stay in trap houses). |
| Trap Line | This refers to when someone owns a mobile phone specifically for the purpose of running and selling drugs. |
| Trapping | The act of selling drugs. Trapping can refer to the act of moving drugs from one town to another or the act of selling drugs in one. |
| White Chalk | Cocaine |
| Woolies | A marijuana cigarette laced with cocaine. |