Skip to main content
Urban Dictionary Merch
Your favorite words on things you can wear, drink from, read, or give to a friend.
The Urban Dictionary Store sells gifts you’ll have to explain.

Gromming 

The act of pulling one’s hair in a downward motion to encourage hairline growth further down the scalp. Used by the looksmaxxing community to combat balding in men.
“Have you seen Mark recently, I think he got a hair transplant?”

“Nah man, he’s just been gromming a lot recently. He’s trying to looksmax.”
Gromming by S. Moomin March 20, 2024

Quarantine Grooming 

Relevant during the 2020 pandemic quarantine.

When someone comes on extremely strong with early declarations of love or possibly a future relationship together. The purpose of this is to gain confidence in order to make someone comfortable enough to eventually break quarantine and have sex with them.

(Original Source: Unzippedintentions.com)
"He told me that he could totally see a future with me and see himself falling in love. I think he's Quarantine Grooming me"

Grooming 

When a sexual or other kind of predator sets the stage for abusing another, such as a child or other person (as in the case of sex and theory human trafficking).

Trust: May give toys and/or other gifts and favors to the intended victim to gain trust.

Alienation: Settings the stage for the intended victim to become alienated from their primary caregivers/circles or family and community.

Fear/dependency: Sets up a power dynamic in which the victim feels too afraid to report the abuse, perhaps by involving the victim in activities their friends and family might judge the victim negatively for, such as drug use (or even the abuse itself).
By the time the girl understood how bad her situation had become the neighbor had been grooming her so carefuly and for so long that she felt she could not go home or to the police and so saw no way out of her situation. Thankfully a relative noticed her distress and had the sense to seek help from the county's intervention program.
Grooming by evilelove April 1, 2017
The art of casually browsing through your phone in a group of people rather than take part in the conversation. To ignore those you are with to Grom your phone.
"Wow, I can see Tom is just Groming away again instead of talking to his friends"
Groming by Brandon Brit December 12, 2019

Grooming 

Training, preparing or conditioning someone, usually over a longer period of time. Also used to refer to a paedophile's process of building trust with a child, wearing down the child's boundaries.
"The tutor we hired was a good investment; he's grooming my son for a prestigious college."
"Paul gives our daughter a lot of gifts and attention, I'm worried he might be grooming her. Do you think i should call the police?"
Grooming by AnAbundancyOfLemons February 18, 2017

Gremming 

Gremming; to be extremely skilled in a specific activity where you are mountains above others in skill level
Dude, I heard that Lana was straight gremming at COD last night

Yo Barry, I was gremming on that Maths Assessment Task, I swear I got like a 90 in that
Gremming by gangstaman24 May 24, 2021
More from Urban Dictionary

trucker's tan 

A sunburn or suntan focused on the left arm. It is caused by the left side of the body being the only half that gets exposed to sunlight while driving. Presumably, it would be located on the right side of the body in countries where they drive on the left side of the road.
I had a trucker's tan after driving for 10 straight hours on a sunny day.
Word of the Day on October 5, 2026
The phenomenon where adults salivate at children's toys
Every time I walk into the toy aisle, I catch myself kidulting over the latest action figures and LEGO sets!
kidulting by Emotional Cruiser October 12, 2025
Word of the Day on October 4, 2026
British slang for a scientist or technical expert, esp . when the speaker is not certain of the expert’s specific field of study. Not necessarily derogatory, but typically used by persons without a technical background. In the US, the equivalent would be “egghead”, “squint”, or “geek.”

Origin of the word is unknown. Started sometime in World War 2. Given the typical evolution of British slang, could easily have started because what these experts did was confusing or “baffling” to the common person.
According to the boffins downstairs, the murderer used a serrated blade.
Boffin by Agnon February 11, 2023
Word of the Day on October 3, 2026

Pee Calculus

When you have to pee in a movie but don’t want to miss anything, and must do the following mental equation: will the amount I have to pee cause enough discomfort to diminish my attention capacity for the remainder of the movie to an extent which is greater than the amount of the movie I would miss by making a mad dash to the restroom.
I saw Satantango last night, wonderful film but by the 5th hour I had to start doing pee calculus.
Pee Calculus by anorlondo October 1, 2026
Word of the Day on October 2, 2026
Literally "dirty" pronounced with a West Indian accent. Can also have a positive connotation, for example Sean Paul's album title "Dutty Rock".
"The girl is pretty but she corrupt and dutty!"

or, in a positive usage:

"Booya! That freestyle was dutty!"
Dutty by J Hall April 3, 2003
Word of the Day on October 1, 2026
Load more