Are you Streetwise? 

Streetwise is for young people like you between 12 and 18. It's about peer to peer grooming, sexual bullying and healthy and unhealthy relationships. Streetwise deals with difficult personal safety and awareness issues head on.

Young people from Croydon kick-started Streetwise for their peers. They covered everything from slang, stereotypes, staying safe offline and online to building an emotional and physical resilience in very challenging situations. Streetwise is also now down in Barking and Dagenham, Camden and Merton. Next up is Bexley and Southwark. What you see here is a coming together of all the boroughs who have taken part so far - their ideas, their thoughts, their photos, their films, their lives.

Don't forget to check out the Bebo Streetwise site.

Street Talk

chappin' \adj.
cold, freezing

dread \adj.
bad, awful as in; *That's dread* 

cream \adj.
good, cracking

peng \adj.
Nice, lovely, good, excellent

skeen, skeenage \excl.
I see, OK

prang \adj.
scared

shook \adj.
scared, frightened

get lick off \expr.
Get drunk or beaten up

B \n.
Babe, boo

G \n.
Friend or fellow gang member, as in; “What up G”

Yute, ute \ n.
Youth younger than you. Sometimes used to talk about an unknown person, as in; “Who was that yute I see you with the other day”

Nanked \n.
Stabbed

Swagga \expr.
To look good, as in; “That boy’s got swagga”

Swag \n.
Rubbish, crap

Slipping \v.
Doing something you shouldn’t be doing, as in; “I caught my man slipping”

Boydem, 50, po po \n.
The police.

Blenny \n.
Hench

Co-d \n.
Best Friend

Burn \v.
To get an STI/STD, as in; “That girl burnt me“

Food \n.
Cannabis

Buck up \v.
To meet up

Link up \v.
To meet up to have sex

Linq \n.
A sexual partner

Boops \v.
When a guy is being used by a girl for his money

Loose \adj.
To sleep around, as in; “That is one loose yute”

Sket \n.
Tart, prostitute

Can you add to this list?