Tout doucement

[regal pumice]

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[latent drum]

this is verlan. The order of syllables is being reversed.
For the most part, new verlan words don't appear nowadays. The scope is mostly limited to a number of words that have basically entered common vocabulary by now (including words like téma)

If they don't know the word, and context hints it might be verlan, natives might try reversing the syllables to see if it makes sense, but that would be pretty rare

[steel berry]

ahhh okay thank you

wait so whats maté?

[latent drum]

"mater" is to look at someone/something in some form of judgmental way (usually checking out people but not necessarily)

[steel berry]

sooo "We are targeted a bit like tupac, that stares at us everywhere"?

well that last sentence sounds unnatural in English so maybe its like

we're being kept on their sights everywhere we go

[latent drum]

we're getting stares from all around us or something

[steel berry]

oh

i thought partout was meant to be everywhere they are

in the moment

[latent drum]

de partout => from everywhere (source of the stares)

"de" is important here

[steel berry]

yeah, i mean ofc with context "from everywhere" can be hyperbolic in the sense that the stares are only coming from around them and not literally everywhere or it can legit just mean anywhere they go there's lurking suspects glaring at them at all times

atleast that's how i can interpret from everywhere in English. One is just an exaggeration while another is more literal in the sense

[latent drum]

I mean your interpretation isn't wrong either