Dictionary

General Sneaker Slang

1’s, 3’s, 4’s, 5’s, etc - specific Jordan model

Beaters - shoes that you wear very often and beat up

BIN - buy it now (price)

BNIB - brand new in box

Breds - black and red sneakers

Brick - not profitable

Cookgrouo - A group where resellers, sneakerheads, and sneaker fanatics meet to discuss and provide info on releases, making money, and a lot more.

Cop - to purchase or buy something

Crepes - sneakers

Crispy - clean/crisp sneakers

Deadstock - brand new, never worn (DS)

DSWT - deadstock with tag

FCFS - first come first serve

FSR - full size run

Footsites - footlocker, footaction, champs, etc

FTA - footaction

FTL - footlocker

FNL - finishline

G.O.A.T - greatest of all time

Grails - all time favorite sneakers

GR - general release, not limited

Groupbuy - access to a sold out or expensive product, usually for a reduced price.

GS - grade school, kids sizes

Gum sole - yellow/brownish sole of a sneaker

Highs - high top sneakers

Hypebeast - person into sneakers/hype

Icy - usually in reference to the clean sole of a sneaker

JB - jordan brand

Lows - low top sneakers

Mids - mid top sneakers

NIB - new in box

OG - original

PE - player edition

Retro - rerelease of a classic sneaker

Upper - upper part of a sneaker (it's material)

VNDS - very near deadstock

Washed - noob

WTB - want to buy

WTS - want to sell

WTT - want to trade

Botting Slang

AIO - all in one (type of bot that supports all types of sites)

AWS - amazon web services: server provider

Bot - auto-purchase software

Captcha - "picture quiz" used to try and stop bots

Cook group - discord group with sneaker info (helpful when botting or reselling)

Delay - time delay used in bots when running tasks

DC - datacenter proxies: faster, but easily bannable

Early Link - a link to a product before its live (speeds up checkout process)

GB - group buy

GCP - google cloud: server provider

OOS - out of stock

Proxy - virtual IP address that avoids bans on a site

Resi - residential proxies: slower, but generally more reliable

Server - an off-site computer with good specs (usually used to run bots)

Site list - list of all sites releasing a given product

Task - one attempt to cop (using a bot)

Variants - a code for each size of a product (helps speed up checkout process)