(UK, informal, derogatory) The city of Nottingham, England in reference to its historical high gun crime rate.
(UK, informal, derogatory) The city of Nottingham, England in reference to its historical high gun crime rate.
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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(Australia, UK, slang) A shotgun.
In Australian and British slang, a shotgun — the firearm. Also used in drug culture for a type of bong where smoke is forced through a small hole to produce a quick, concentrated hit. The two senses are unrelated in practice; context makes the meaning clear. The firearm sense is broader; the drug-use sense circulates mainly in cannabis subcultures.
MLE (Multicultural London English) slang for a drug dealer — specifically someone who sells drugs on the street, often in a housing estate or urban neighborhood. The term is deeply embedded in UK grime, drill, and rap culture, and has spread through music into broader youth slang. A shotter operates at the street level of the drug trade, and the word carries the gritty realism of inner-city life that characterizes the music scenes that popularized it. Widely recognized across UK youth culture today.
In UK slang, 'peak' describes something unfortunate, harsh, or deeply unlucky — so a peak shotter is a dealer whose situation is just grim. Maybe they're working terrible hours for someone else's profit, maybe they're deep in debt to their supplier, maybe they're the one who always takes the risk while others take the reward. It's not necessarily a dig at their skills; it's an acknowledgment that the circumstances are rough. Road culture recognises the peak shotter with a kind of grim sympathy — the person at the bottom of a chain, doing the dirtiest work, carrying the most exposure.