on road, on the roads (London slang adj.): involved in petty crime; in the Game. pagan (London slang adj.): Enemy. Osman warning (UK law n.): letter informing someone they are at high risk of murder, issued by British police; the black spot. creps (London n.): cool trainers. He skulked, like his creps was made out of lead. His skin, normally like polished bronze, was drained flat, as if he'd been bleached. When I smiled and said hello to him, Husayn looked at me from fifty miles away. multimessenger (astronomy adj.): other things than EM to get info about the universe (at the moment we're trying neutrinos, cosmic rays, and grav waves). (Rays are particles, not waves.) wamb (internet sociology n.): the opposite of a nerd ; an unusually intuitive, extroverted, impulsive, lookist person. Currently this is thought to be "normal person", but if the empathising-systematising trade-off is at all right, then in fact normality is in the middle o...