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Definition: A code-mixing term used by working class Hong Kongers to refer to the rules being set on how you should wear for a situation or event.
Usage: E.g. 聽晚要去公司function？有冇話咩dress code呀?
Synonym: 服裝規範
Reference: https://www.englishok.com.tw/toeic/toeic-issue/crystal_lee_english_speaking
Definition: Derived from '落狗屎‘, this is a Kongish code-mixing term that refers to raining very heavily, which is equivalent of the phrase 'raining cats and dogs' in English.
Usage: E.g. Wa! Right now is really drop dog sh*t ah! (哇！兒家真係落狗屎呀！)
Synonym: 落狗屎
Reference: https://ling-app.com/yue/cantonese-slang-words/
Definition: A code-mixing term that is often misused by Fake ABC’s to mean 'jot down'.
Usage: E.g. 老師，唔該等一等。我要ｄｒｏｐ ｄｏｗｎ埋Ｄ ｎｏｔｅｓ先擦黑板。
Reference: https://www.hk01.com/開罐/128449/你是否-偽abc-chill-中文意思係咩-10個港人常用錯英文字
Definition: A code-mixing term that native Hong Kongers use to describe someone or something as dull and boring such as having no relationship, which definitely has nothing to do with 'dry dating' in native English.
Usage: E.g. 我近排冇拖拍好dry呀。(I recently haven't been dating, so dry!) E.g. 唔好成日自己一個人咁dry啦。(Don't be always by yourself, so dry!)
Synonym: 沒新鮮感，很無聊，枯燥乏味
Reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtwE7IA18CY&t=50s
Definition: A slightly more polite sounding code-mixing term that real ABC's in Hong Kong like to use instead the Cantonese equivalent '大佬', meaning 'big brother', even though the literal meaning is usually not taken when used, just like the word 'dude'.
Usage: E.g. Dude，你係到搞D咩呀？ E.g. Dude，你好還錢喇喎？ E.g. Dude，你以為你自己好型呀？
Synonym: 大佬
Definition: A code-mixing term that is used in place of '交'.
Usage: E.g. 同學：份功課幾時due呀？你：好似聽日due得喇喎。
Definition: A euphemistic way of telling somebody to eat sh*t (食屎).
Usage: E.g. 咁巴閉?! Eat c la!
Definition: Known as Kongish, this is a code-mixing phrase used by native Hong Kongers to describe someone who is useless and is a waste of money to raise him or her up. (食濕米 or 食塞米)
Usage: E.g. You cannot get anything done at all today? Do you eat wet rice? (你係咪食塞米?)
Synonym: 食濕米, 食塞米
Reference: https://shyyp.net/hant/phrase/%E9%A3%9F%E5%A1%9E%E7%B1%B3
Definition: Pronounced as 'N-call', this is a code-mixing term used to get the performer to sing one more time at the end of a concert.
Usage: E.g.今次演唱會唔知會ＥＮＣＯＲＥ幾多次呢？ E.g. Encore!!!我今次要encore到爆為止！
Synonym: 唱多一次
Definition: A euphemistic way of refering to the end of something, as saying something is at a final stage is considered bad luck in Cantonese sometimes.
Usage: E.g. 唔知佢end up會做D咩呢? E.g. 上次個project end up成點呀? E.g. 佢上個暑假end up左去台灣。