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定義: Often used as a bilingual pun that rhymes with '分' meaning 'points' or 'share' in Cantonese, this is a code-mixing term that working class Hong Kongers use in advertising to attract people to attend an event for the sake of having fun and earning points together.
用法: E.g. 100FUN樂滿紛 ｜6週年齊FUN享 (100 Fun-Filled Fun | Let's Share Our 6th Anniversary Celebration)
同義詞: 分; 樂趣
定義: A code-mixing term used by working class Hong Kongers as a less explicit way of referring to the period of time a person has not worked especially to employers because it tends to sound small and tiny like a door gap.
用法: E.g. 如果兩個都差唔多，先揀冇gap個個，因為有gap個個驚佢太自由奔放走左去 (If both candidates are almost the same, I'll choose the one without a gap first, because I'm afraid the one with a gap will leave the company quickly like he has too much freedom.)
同義詞: 間隔；空窗期
定義: A code-mixing term used by working class Hong Kongers to refer to examining something in detail.
用法: E.g. 老闆：開會時記住同大家go through一下今個week既items。
參考: https://www.story001.com/post-196.html
定義: A code-mixing term used by grassroots class Hong Kongers to refer to how thoroughly cooked a steak is, which is equivalent to ‘well done’ in native English.
用法: E.g. 個鬼佬轉另轉頭問我: whatxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx? 我好自豪 充滿自信 大大聲答: GOOD JOB!! 個鬼佬就呆哂 唔明我無啦啦做乜講GOOD JOB咁 女友見到 即刻幫我答:WELL DONE (The western waiter then asked me: whatxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx? I was proud and confident and answered loudly: GOOD JOB! The western waiter was speechless and didn't understand why I said good job. When my girlfriend saw this, she immediately helped me answer: WELL DONE)
同義詞: 全熟
參考: https://amp.lihkg.com/thread/561255/page/1
定義: A code-mixing term used by working class Hong Kongers as a milder way of calling someone a newbie or referring to someone who is new or inexperienced at something.
用法: E.g. 上次份banking工有feedback話我太green，想問我有無興趣去compliance到做。(There was feedback from my last banking job saying that I was too green, and they asked me whether I had an interest to work in compliance.)
同義詞: 新手; 缺乏經驗
參考: https://lihkg.com/thread/3981656/page/39
定義: A code-mixing term used by working class Hong Kongers to refer to a relatively small number of people or things being put together but probably not big enough to be an organisation or entity.
用法: E.g. 我地間公司係一個group，不如加入我地既whatsapp group再傾吓我地可以點合作？(Our company is a group. What about joining our Whatsapp group so we can talk about how we can work together?)
同義詞: 組, 組織, 集團
參考: https://resources.ctgoodjobs.hk/article/23487/職場熱話-被迫加入廿個公司group-員工-不停彈訊息-連apple-watch都壞埋
定義: A code-mixing term used by working class Hong Kongers to refer more specifically to the legal promises made by a company, especially in a contract or agreement.
用法: E.g. bonus guarantee 有3個月？有d 公司好仆街係咪都話生意唔好減咁d 架wor (Is it guaranteed to have 3 months of bonus? Some companies are really an epic fail and say their business is not doing good then lower your salary.)
同義詞: 保證
參考: https://lihkg.com/thread/2863234/page/3
定義: A code-mixing term that working class Hong Kongers use to refer to computer that has become unresponsive, due to a halt or freeze.
用法: E.g. 部電腦新買架喎，咁易hang機？！ E.g. 係咪唔夠RAM所以hang左呀？
同義詞: 當機
定義: A code-mixing term used by working class Hong Kongers to avoid the use of sensitive negative vocabulary when they want to describe a situation where there can be anger or resentment involved when disagreement happens.
用法: E.g. A: 雖然我地達唔到共識，但係大家都唔好有hard feeling, ok? B: OK，明白。 (A: Even though we did not reach a consensus, we should not have any hard feelings okay? B: Okay, understood.) E.g. A: 雖然我地達唔到共識，但係大家都唔好有怨恨, ok? B: 講咩呀你？我幾時有怨恨？！ (A: Even though we did not reach a consensus, we should not have any resentment okay? B: What are you talking about? When did I have resentment?!)
同義詞: 憤怒, 怨恨, 不快
參考: https://lihkg.com/thread/3777161/page/1
定義: A code-mixing term used by working class Hong Kongers as a more technical and corporate way of referring to the number of employees in a company because '人數' sounds too everyday in Cantonese like when getting enough people to play Mahjong together.
用法: E.g. 大家公司最近咩環境 有冇freeze headcount? (How is everybody's company doing recently? Any company is freezing headcount?)
同義詞: 人數
參考: https://lihkg.com/thread/3674159/page/1