French Slang Dictionary
56 expressions
Browse the complete Slangy dictionary of French slang expressions listed alphabetically. Each entry links to a full page with example sentences, cultural notes, and explanations of register and appropriateness. Includes verlan, argot, modern colloquialisms, and French expressions from dating and everyday life.
A
Auche
Intense
Avoir le cafard
To feel down
Avoir le coup de foudre
To fall in love at first sight
Avoir le cul bordé de nouilles
To be very lucky
Avoir un cœur d'artichaut
To fall in love easily
Avoir un petit bail avec quelqu'un
To have a little "thing" going on with someone
C
Casser les pieds à quelqu'un
To annoy someone greatly
Chanmé
Wicked
Chelou
Shady
Cheum
Ugly
Choper le 06 de quelqu'un
To get someone's phone number
E
En avoir ras-le-bol
To be fed up
En faire tout un fromage
To exaggerate the importance of something
F
Faire un 5 contre 1
To mastrurbate
Fait ièch
It's annoying
L
La beuh
Weed
La reum
Mother
La teub
The penis
La teuf
A party
La tof
A photo
La zicmu
Music
Laisse béton
Forget it
Laisser tomber comme une vieille chaussette
To abandon someone
Le courant ne passe pas
There's no chemistry or connection between people
Les carottes sont cuites
It's all over
M
Mifa
Family
Méfu
To smoke
N
Nawak
Nonsense
O
Ouf
Crazy
P
Passer du coq à l’âne
To jump from one thing to another
Plan Q
A casual sex arrangement
Poser un lapin
To stand someone up
Prendre quelqu'un la main dans le sac
To catch someone red-handed
Pécho
To hook up with
Péter plus haut que son cul
To be arrogant, full of oneself, or pretentious.
R
Relou
Annoying
Renoi
A Black person
Reuf
A brother
S
Se faire ghoster
To suddenly be ignored or cut off by someone with no explanation
Se la péter
To show off
Se mettre une caisse
To get very drunk
Se prendre un râteau
To get rejected
T
Teubé
Stupid
Tirer les vers du nez de quelqu'un
To extract information out of someone
Tu me prends la tête
You're driving me crazy
Turfu
The future
U
Un keum
A guy
Un rebeu
A person of North African or Arab descent born in France
Une caillera
A delinquent
Une meuf
A woman
V
Verlan
The French back-slang system itself
Vénère
Furious
Z
Zarbi
Weird / Strange
À
À donf
Fully
Ç
Ça m’a fichu les jetons
It freaked me out
Ê
Être en kiff total sur quelqu'un
To be totally into someone
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