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- What is the etymology of dope meaning excellent, great . . . - slang
Dope is a rather new slang word that is used to define someone or something excellent, great, impressive OED says that it is originally in African-American usage and chiefly among rap musicians and
- Etymology: Dope - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Dope in the sense of information, particularly information that isn’t widely known or easily obtained, came directly from this practice A whisper from the stables or some confederate telling a gambler which horses were being drugged was potentially worth a lot of money, so dope came to mean knowledge that drugs had been employed
- What do you call slapping someone at the back of their head
Dope slap is the most common expression I know for striking someone in the back of the head with an open palm The b -expression, which I will not repeat, usually refers to a different kind of strike, typically a backhand across the face (or am I thinking of the pimp slap?)
- etymology - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Fire as a slang adjective appears to be the bleeding-edge version of "cool " To some extent, the word appears to be interchangeable with dope One thing that seems odd to me is that it often seem
- When and from where did guns become slang for biceps?
Both the Straight Dope commenter and ghoppe note the 1973 instance from Andrews Owens as the first cited occurrence of guns in the sense of "the biceps and triceps " Google Books has a copy of Black Language, but the book is available for snippet searches only, and I couldn't call up the quoted language about guns in multiple attempts
- etymology - Origin of phrase put one over on? - English Language . . .
The exact phrase "put one over on" in the sense of "get the better of"—through superior skill, superior strategy (or trickery), or the element of surprise—appears to have caught on quickly in the United States, emerging in the early 1900s and becoming very popular by 1910 The earliest matches that I've been able to find come from the period 1903 to 1905 from various sports milieus
- Term for when a negative word is used positively?
geek (see ‘Word Story’ notes) nerd wicked (the) dog's bollocks sick bad, badass dope In linguistics, amelioration is the upgrading or elevation of a word's meaning, as when a word with a negative sense develops a positive one Also called melioration or elevation Amelioration is less common than the opposite historical process, called
- american english - Why does to dip mean to leave? - English . . .
Dalzell notes that in the hiphop slang of the same era, dip (along with dap and dope) could also mean "Good with a fashionable twist," The term dip then crossed over into white interracial U S youth slang in the 1990s, as Dalzell memorializes in this exceedingly brief entry: dip To leave
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