crabcore

(gambling, slang) A dice roll of two aces.

In gambling slang, 'crabs' refers to rolling a two in craps — specifically a pair of aces, the lowest possible dice roll. It's an automatic loss on the come-out roll and one of the most dreaded results in the game. The term likely comes from the sideways-moving shape of the two dice side by side resembling the legs of a crab. In broader slang, 'crabs' can also refer to pubic lice, but in gambling contexts it specifically means snake eyes or the losing dice result.

(internet slang) An intense or hardcore idealized form of the scene youth subculture of the 2000s and early 2010s.

Cringe core is the aesthetic that leans fully into embarrassment as its artistic identity. Think early-2010s scene kids, MySpace angles, Hot Topic poetry, and the particular sincerity of someone who was extremely online before being extremely online was cool. Cringe core doesn't try to be good — it commits to being earnest in a way that older internet culture would have mocked but Gen Z increasingly reclaims as authentic. The cringe core aesthetic is characterized by unfiltered emotion, maximalist personal expression, and a refusal to be embarrassed by your own feelings. It's cringe reclaimed as charm.

(Internet slang, music) A plunderphonic style of music in which a song is slowed down and lowered in pitch.