Winning when it counts, against the odds — a clutch play, to clutch it — from sport into gaming and out again into anything done under pressure at the last moment. The record's entry for the word that means 'when it mattered'.
Gaming Slang Glossary: 60 Terms from GG to Skill Issue
3 Sep 2026
30 NBA Twitter Memes and Phrases, Explained
24 Aug 2026
40 Roblox Memes and Phrases Every Player Knows (Oof to Grow a Garden)
17 Aug 2026
Fortnite Slang: 35 Terms from "Sweaty" to "Cranking 90s"
4 Jul 2026
Roblox Slang: 40 Terms Every Player (and Parent) Should Know
2 Jul 2026
Goated, GOAT, "Goated with the Sauce": A Short History of the Greatest
8 Apr 2026
'Clutch' said by a surgeon, about a colleague, in an operating theatre, according to a nurse who told the record. The record does not know the outcome and hopes.
Definition by contrast: Clutch is not the older thing it gets compared to. The older thing needed context; Clutch was the context.
What does it mean? Write it the way you would say it out loud.
