Russiaбратан (bratan)
noun · Informal · bra-TAN
Bro. An augmentative of брат 'brother', used to address a male friend or, pointedly, a stranger you are trying to keep on side.
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Russian Slang for People
9 Russian slang terms for people, each with its meaning, how it is pronounced and an example of it in use.
Labels for social types: the show-off, the country cousin, the city sophisticate, the freeloader. These words tell you what a culture notices about its own members.
чувак (chuvak)
noun · Informal · choo-VAK
Dude; mate. Used both as a label for a man and as a form of address between friends, with чувиха as the female counterpart — though чувиха sounds cruder and more dated than чувак does.
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флексить (fleksit)
verb · Informal · FLEK-seet
To show off — money, clothes, a holiday. Borrowed from American rap slang and given a standard Russian infinitive, so it conjugates like any native verb: флексю, флексишь, флексил.
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фраер (frayer)
noun · Colloquial · FRA-yer
Originally, in camp argot, anyone outside the thieves' world — a civilian, and by extension an easy mark. The sense survives in the proverb жадность фраера сгубила, 'greed was the sucker's undoing'.
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гопник (gopnik)
noun · Colloquial · GOP-neek
A young man from a rough housing estate who hangs around in a tracksuit, squats on his heels and asks passers-by for a cigarette in a way that is not really a question.
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лох (lokh)
noun · Colloquial · LOKH
A sucker; a mark; someone who can be taken for a ride and does not see it coming. The insult is about being naive and socially weak rather than unintelligent.
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мент (ment)
noun · Colloquial · MYENT
A cop. Disrespectful but so widespread that a long-running television series about decent detectives was called Менты — which took much of the sting out without removing it.
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мудак (mudak)
noun · Vulgar · moo-DAK
A contemptible idiot — close to 'arsehole' in force and in usage. The charge is not stupidity so much as behaving badly and not noticing.
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стукач (stukach)
noun · Colloquial · stoo-KACH
An informer; a grass. One of the heaviest accusations in the language, carrying the full weight of the Soviet century behind it.
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