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Hip hop slang is a varied accumulation of slang terms that changes frequently and is parallel to the evolution and use of hiphop.
Alternative Pronunciation
Used to shorten, alter, or change the sound of a word. Often used for ease of rhyming or to fit into rhythm, such as placing emphasis on the "O" vowel (ex. POlice), while dropping the end consonants (ex. Foo). Can also be used as self referential humor, by adopting a known variation in pronunciation used in local or regional settings, movies or popular media, dialects, accents, etc, with the end result of an intentional adopted spelling of this pronunciation.
- aight, aite, aw-ite - all right
- aks - ask I want to axe you a question
- befo' - before I told you this befo’
- da' - the He's da' man.
- dat - that I love dat.
- dis - this I love dis.
- down - I'm up for it. I'm down.
- fiddy, fitty - fifty He's fiddy years old.
- flava - flavor
- flow - to rap, can also be used as a noun, ...listen to my flow...
- flo' - floor
- fo'(1)- For This is fo' my Aunt.
- fo'(2) - The number four. Can also refer to twenty-four inch rims.
- fo'(3) - Short for before, or any -fore suffix.
- ho - prostitute, short for "whore"
- holla - holler, to make contact via phone, sms, or any other media.
- lil' - little
- mo' - more I can't stand it no mo’
- moo' - move moo’ over there for me
- mo'fo' - mother fucker
- 'sup - what's up
- wif - with
Alternative Spelling
Spelling that alters letters in a word but results in roughly the same pronunciation. The intent is to place more emphasis on a part of the word than in the traditional pronunciation.
- biatch - bitch
- boi - boy
- phat - very cool
- becoz - because
- nethin - anything
Conjoined Words
Words that are combined for ease of pronunciation, and to reduce the total number of syllables.
- Busta - snitch, "you's a busta"
- Fugly - Fucking Ugly, She looks fugly
- Hella - Hell of, He's hella cool.
Partial Words
Uses part of a word to represent an entire word.
- bluh - a citation ( what up bluh?), bluh is usually it's Blood but the slang (" What Brackin' Bluh?")
- cuz - Short for because
- cuz(2) - A citation (what's up cuz?) / cousin, especially in Crips slang ("He's my cuz")
- feds - short for Federal Agents, refers to cops or other law enforcement agencies
- popo - cops, short for police
- po' - Poor, He's too po' to afford a house.
- sitch - situation
- 1 time - the local police
Replacement Suffix
The ending of a word is removed, and replaced with a new suffix used as a substitute, much like Pig Latin. Rap singer Snoop Dogg has popularized this form of slang in recent years.
- Bizzle - Bitch
- Fizzle - Can be female, fuck, flatulate or any number of words starting with F
- Hizouse - Mentioned by Chef in South Park, also a word for house, "so we started call it hizzle, then they called it hizzle, then we called it hizouse, then they started callin' it that, so now we call it our flippity flopty floo"
- Hizzle(1) - House
- Hizzle(2) - Hook, as in "Off the hook"
- Gizzle - Gay
- Nizzle - Nigga
- Rizzle - Real
- Shiznit - Shit
- Shizzle - Sure
- Tizzle - Tizzy, a state of agitation or nervousness.
- Whistle - penis
- Wigity - Wack
Actions
crunk- high energy
- bail - leave I'm gonna bail
- be - are, am, is - usually refers to location I be over here or He be sleeping right now.
- bent - intoxicated
- buck - to leave
- buggin' - acting in a manner which is not socially acceptable.
- bumpin' - to one's liking
- busta cap - to shoot a gun
- busta move - to act quickly, or to perform a dance move
- bust out(1) - to leave, to exit. He busted out of the club.
- bust out(2) - to show or introduce something. "He busted out a deck of playing cards from his coat pocket."
- bounce - to leave We finna bounce.
- chillin' - relaxing
- dancing to a different beat - not dancing to the same beat as the general populous
- dayton's army - to take a shit, then have a shower right after.
- deuce(1)- ugly girl
- deuce(2)- a shit Im gon' go drop a deuce
- dime - hot girl
- diss - to show disrespect His essay dissed my original thesis.
- fittin' or fixin' - going to do something I'm fittin' to buy me some cigarettes.
- funk-windlin' - to be carrying a gang coloured hankerchief
- gank - to steal He ganked my car.
- hatin' - to criticize
- jet - leave We gotta jet.
- lunchin' - behaving erratically
- mean daniel - oral sex, "girl gave me a mean daniel"
- mean suzy - to douche, "that bitch could use a mean suzy"
- murk(1) - to leave I'm finna murk, PEACE.
- murk(2) - to kill I'm going to murk this clown.
- roll out - to leave
- scrap - to fight We scrapped in the back yard.
- spit - see flow.
- spittin game - flirting.
- swaggin' lor - evading the law
Anatomy
- Booty - buttocks, especially female
- Blind Timothy - uncircumsized penis
- Gooch - choda
- Guns - Muscular arms
- DSL's - Dick Suckin Lips
- Bufferin Tupperware - prosthetic legs
- Puntang, Poontang, Punanny, Pooty, Poot, pouch, pussy - Female genitalia
- Tough Buckets - bad hearing, "stupid mofo's got tough buckets or summin"
- Schnauze - Big Nose
- pz- peace
Brand Names and Commercial Trademarks
- Benz - Short for Mercedes Benz, known for luxury automobiles
- Cristal - Roederer Cristal, a brand of champagne
- Don P - Don Perignon, a brand of champagne
- Henny, Hen - Henessy, a brand of cognac
- nobby gibble-ties - shoes that are no longer en vogue
- Lex - Short for Lexus, known for luxury automobiles
- Slade - Cadillac Escalade
- Feeding the Overweight Mule - putting gas in your car
- Cookin' Brownies - White person tanning
Consumer products
- Bub - short for bubbly, i.e. champagne
- Rims - wheels of a vehicle, often a customized wheel replacing a manufacturer wheel, with an appealing design or "bling-bling" appearance. Size is also a factor, generally twenty to twenty-four inches denotes luxury or extra expense.
- Whip - Car.
- kazoo - toothbrush
- platinum kazoo - electric toothbrush
- Timbs - Timberland boots
- Chum Shakers - gold-plated chopsticks
Drug Terms
AIGHT AIGHT MELS DOPE!!!!
- bon jovi'in - high as a muthafucka "mutha fucka be bonjovi'in like a mutha fucka"
- dime, dimebag, dimesack - a ten dollar "bag" of illicit drugs
- dub - a twenty dollar bag (also refers to twenty inch rims)
- ice, ice cream, jib, dream catcher, method, meth - crystalized methamphetamine
- mac, bleazy - blunt
- morning violence - the act of taking a shit after you have been doing drugs or drinking the night before
- nick, nickel, nickelbag, nickelsack - a five dollar "bag" of illicit drugs
- yayo, yay, yeo, shnazal, heezy, blow, snow, powder, the honky horse - Cocaine
- playing with the Asian barbie - doing heroine
- popsicle jones - craving for crystal meth
- vietnamese bean-wax - crack cocaine
- stuffed truffles - needles
- weed - herb, bhudda, shwag, mota, bud, mary jane, dodo, green, fire, smoke, peace stick, watar, bluntos, bud, chronic, doja, banga, ganja, dank, sticky icky, indo, talkin' turtle, hootith, pot
- hydro- indoor grown marijuana
- 10:30-tweaker time, time to smoke, snort, inject meth (same as 4:20 but for tweak)
- the sandwich dance - addicted to drugs
- Open up Shop - to go and sell drugs
- heroin - smack, boy
- cocaine - girl
Gang terms
- BG - Baby Gangsta, one who is a gangsta but never shot anyone.
- gangsta - member of a street gang
- playa - someone who is not monogamous / someone who's really in, someone who's got a lot of respect
- playa hata - One who hates others for having more than they do.
- Corned Beef & Ham Salad - proof of deaths of rival gang members
- chubby doctor - gang leader
- dirty patrick - local drug dealer
- mumbo jumbo - spoken lies during a business transaction " An eighth for a brown? Dis' pussy ass waffle puffin' punk is talkin mumbo jumbo"
- thug - a young person who is caught up in the urban lifestyle
- wanksta - a fake gangster popularized by the song 50 Cent - Wanksta
- P.H.D. - Player Hater Degree
- OG - Original Gangster, one who has shot someone before
- punk - someone who does not show respect
- a man in pants with small pockets - mafia member
- Crab - Derogatory term towards a Crip gangster
- Slob - Derogatory term towards a Blood gangster
- Loc (pronounced loke ) - a term describing the level of gangster That nigga is loced out gangsta
- Bitchasshoo
- cuzz - Crip
Gun Terms
- Cap - bullet
- MAC-10, Mac - gun
- Nine, nina - 9mm handgun
- Piece - gun
- Strapped up - holding a gun
- ar - AR 15 machine gun
- k, ak - ak 47
- pasta - gun
- pump, shotty - shotgun
- pistol - gun
- gat - an automatic weapon, especially a machine pistol
- heat - gun
- biscuit - gun
- ruger - gun
- bulge - gun
- processed cheese - cap gun, or artificial look-alike of an authentic gun, mainly used in armed robberies to fool merchant(s)
- 4 pounda - 40 caliber gun
- 44 - 44 caliber gun
- Fo'Five - 45 caliber gun
- Deuce Deuce - a 22 caliber gun
- Desert Eaze - Desert Eagle
- G - Gangsta
- Lackalacka Moomoo - Big shirt under which you can hide your piece
- Ratatat tat - Dis niggaz packin heat "here i come.. ratatat tat.. ima blast on dis lil pussy cat"
Locations
- areous - area
- crib - place of residence
- my room - universal signal that you still live with your parents
- hood - neighborhood
- bodega - corner store
- the shops - mall somewhere to go shopping
- Yard - home
Numbers
- 2 - a shit
- 187 - Homicide
- 213 - from, of, or referring to a southern California (telephone) area code
- 24,7 - all day hustle
- 250 - Langford, ya heard!?!
- 313 - from, of, or referring to a Detroit (telephone) area code
- 411 - information, from the telephone directory service in the US
- 420 - Marijuana related
- 5-0 - In reference to the police (as in the television show Hawaii Five-O) or the 5 liter Ford Mustang
- 808 - In reference to the Roland TR-808 drum machine.
- 806 - Lubbock, Texas... Represent. Dirty 8-0-6.
- 730 - the code for crazy
- 817 - Telephone area code for Fort_Worth,_Texas (funkytown, murderworth, and partyworth)
- 10:30 - tweaker time, time to smoke, snort, inject meth (same as 4:20 but for tweak)
- 650 - B-Town repruhsent
Concepts
- African chicken bucket - piece of ass (flor de culo)
- a can of whoop ass - a can of refried beans
- beaten sandals - a dope cd
- ballin' - "I'd explain the definition of ballin' to you white folks... but naw"
- benjamins - Refers to 100$ bills after the American statesman Benjamin Franklin, whose face is on them. "It's all about the benjamins".
- brown - $100 bill
- brown belt - once one has experienced anal sex, he has achieved his "brown belt"
- bling bling - expensive jewelry or other expensive material possessions, refers to the imaginary sound of glistening metal or other shiny surfaces.
- straight blingin' - made of or decorated with tinsel; glittering metal foil.
- bo janglin' – stupid, not paying attention
- busted - ugly Nigga, yo' girl is BUSTED
- dope - cool, tight
- dime - a very attractive woman, a "ten" on a scale of one-to-ten
- Dutch-oven - to flatulate under the containment of a blanket used by one slowly waking from a slumber, then to pull the blanket over his head.
- fan-tatty bagging - fine girl "that bitch is fan-tatty bagging"
- fly - appealing She is so fly.
- koolin' it - kickin' it. chilling.
- fishing for pirates - acting inappropriately. "that foo' is fishing for pirates, mackin' on my DSLs."
- kickin' - appealing Those rims are kickin.
- posse - one's crowd; suggests readiness to back each other up in trouble, but not necessarily a gang.
- puffin' waffles - to be gay "dude must be puffin' waffles"
- pussy - lil' punk ass bitch
- straight - okay
- the shit - awesome, great. That man is the shit.
- stroke the imaginary lady - make yourself dinner
- the sunken ship knows no mercy - (no record of where this phrase came from)
- tight - attractive Your car is tight.
- wack (or whack) - not to one's liking This relationship is totally wh/wack.
- ba-donka-donk - an incredibly attractive ass
- wallop dangle - a fight
Relationships
- baby mamma - referring to the mother of one's child, specifically not referring to one's wife, and often not referring to one's current girlfriend
- bitch - girlfriend (Just me and my bitch)
- boo - boy/girlfriend, beau
- boyz - gang friends
- brurva - a male acquaintance
- crew - One's good friends (similar to boyz)
- funky fog chocolate - a good friendship "me and charlie gooch are like funky fog chocolate, nah mean"
- haps - mother
- hoodrat - girl with loose morals
- homie, homey, homeboy - friend
- jigga - a rapper of limited skill (also nickname for rapper Jay-Z)
- nig-nugget - a friend of a younger age
- peeps - people, acquantainces
- shorty - girl, or girl on the side
- folk - southern slang for friend or acquaintance
- whoady - friend (once common in the south, now deprecated.)
Miscellaneous
- Money - [ boodle, booty, bread, cabbage, clams, craft, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, lucre, loot, moolah, mozza, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum, Jewish]
- Jakes, fuzz - cops
- Jonx - belongings
- Junk - stuff, belongings, male or female genitalia
- Starching the Bronze Weasel - buying groceries
- Shit - stuff, belongings. Get away from my shit.
- lowckin - checking out the scene
- alabama pork machine - cellular phone
- gelded goose - whack emcee
Phrases
- da bomb - the bomb, i.e. cool, appealing, or popular
- fo shizzle my nizzle - undoubtedly, my nigger, I agree whole heartedly my African-American comrade
- Elvis has left the building - this is said after a shit which somewhat resembles the appearance of the late Elvis is flushed
- my bad - my mistake
- off the hook, off the chain - Unbelievable, outrageous, wild, etc.
- peace out - good bye
- pubic diesel - Bull Max Malt Liquor
- rise up, foo - "bring it on." I am prepared to fight.
- gassy 38 year old - embarrassed "i feel like a gassy 38 year old"
- whas goin' down? - what are we doing tonight ?each a lesson, to win a confrontation
- sku me - excuse me
- what tha dilly yo? - what is going on?
- what up? - hello, how are you?
- word up - got that straight, that's right or how's it going
- cracker - white male ( usually friendly term)
For a list of additional terms, see the song "Ebonics" from Harlem rapper Big L (Lamont Coleman, 1974-1999).
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