AK 47 gas-operated assault rifle.
You think you hot, or the hottest, or the coolest.
An east coast term short for brother, or bro.
A person you had a child with.
To Leave, or go. Short for leaving someplace (usually
Serious trouble with an individual, or group, or gang. It’s to have arguments or war.
High Off of marijuana rolled in a Philly blunt (cigar).
A person who is fake, phony, or a punk who can’t fight, or snitches.
When someone, something, or someone’s Hip Hop skills are great and smooth.
1- When someone, someone’s skills or something is not good or is lacking.
2- Someone’s butt
Punch someone in the chin/ face, To test someone’s chin with a punch to see if they can take it.
Referring to casino chips, money, cash.
1- Killin time
2- Punch someone in the head.
New young Hip Hop dance style. Uses allot of footwork.
To buy, originally a term for buying drugs.
Crackin/ What’s crackin/ Crackalackin
Refers to gettin down, dancing.
Old school term for something great.
Ghetto way of saying the number 2
22 caliber gun = deuce deuce
42nd street = forty deuce
Whats the deal?, whats going on?.
1- Another word for someone or something great
2- Drugs, heroin
Slang for Bedstuy Brooklyn. Do or Die Bedstuy.
A back and forth game of making fun of each others mothers, family, disabilities. This is no holds bar jokes where people get there feelings hurt, but you have suck it up. Mama jokes seem to be the most common and popular.
-Your girlfriend is so stupid, the first time she used a vibrator she cracked her two front teeth.
-Your sister is so stupid, she went to the baker for a yeast infection.
-Your mother is so dumb, she couldn’t pass a blood test.
Your mother is so ugly, when he sits in the sand the cat tries to bury he
To teach street knowledge to other people, knowledge of self
Short for make ends meet, to have or keep money.
To be phony or acting phony.
A person telling lies.
To be desperate for something, like a crackhead.
Referring to flexing muscle. To try and intimidate someone, or to prepare to fight someone.
Referring to a forty ounce of beer.
1- Original term for a style of dance that came before house dance.
2- Off the top of the head, when an MC (rapper) rhymes with no pre written rhymes.
3- term for a form of Hip Hop dance that borrows from many styles of dance in and outside of Hip Hop and then freestyle’s it off the top of the head with no routines.
To fake something your not. Pretending to be tuff. To not show up for a situation or a fight.
1- It refers to a music style that originated with drummers in New Orleans like earl Palmer describing the type of sound they want to play.
2- It was a term also coined by James Brown referring to the music making people move and dance so much that at the end of the night the club would be/ smell funky from all the sweating and perspiration. so James Brown would say
3- refers to a style of music originated by the African American community. heavy bass, syncopated drums, and funky grooves.
JAMES BROWN, PARLIAMENT FUNCADELIC, SLY STONE.
4- FAKIN THE FUNK means to be fake in music or Hip Hop or on the streets. Or not really funky.
Foreally/Foreals/Foriila/Forealdo.
1- short for gangsta
2- short for grand, $1,000
To rob a house. And fly like geese.
They all mean to dance, jam, rock turntables, rock a graffiti piece.
To disappear, to leave inconspicuously, without know one seeing you.
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Ghetto tuff, gutter, raw, gangsta.
An old school term for a New York thug or gangsta.
1) To stare at or be stared at hard.
Originally this was from people of color who were stared at by store or shop owners/ workers who thought that you were gonna steal something. So the shop owner/ worker will follow you around the store and stare at you.
referring to a bird of prey with great vision.
2) Weapon
To call someone out, or contact someone.
1- A punk, or someone who is soft.
2- Marijuana, weed.
Short for neighborhood, but refers to ghetto neighborhood.
Mid eighties term for a fine young lady. meaning she’s hot, She’s a hottie.
1- Rhymes with bummin so was used to call someone a bum.
2- Person with bad breath.
Short for “I ain’t the one to be messed with”.
Way of saying something is so great it is sickening.
1- Term for robbing a person, or car jacking, steeling someone’s car.
2- Also a word similar to dude.
To have knowledge or self and everything around you, to have street knowledge
1- Short for elevated train platforms. Outside train stations.
2- joint
A person who is high off drugs or liquor.
Master of ceremonies. In Hip Hop an MC was the original term for Rapper. Mic Controller.
A term used to explain when something is extra huge, or great.
A person wet behind the ears, who has no street experience, a rookie.
Street way of saying good bye. Bidding someone peace.
Latino people will say Uno.
When a fad is over and old, and no one is doing it no more.
1- To shoot someone
2- To get busted by the police and sent to jail.
To beat someone in a Hip Hop Battle. MC battle, BBOY battle, Graffiti battle, DJ battle.
A home made knife made in prison out of any object that can be sharpened.
1- Originally a gang term for a young kid from the neighborhood.
2- A cute/ fly ghetto girl/ honey.
To sneak a punch or an attack on someone when there not lookin.
1- When an MC (rapper) starts rhyming.
2- It is when a person is flirting with a female.
To make money and save it, or put it away, then go out and make more money. A term for hustlers.
Everything is OK.
An individual is OK.
Writing your nick name on a wall or train.
Forcibly take your money like the government. To rob.
When something is cool, good , or safe it’s thorough.
Security guards who act like there real cops.
Don’t get it wrong, or don’t get me wrong. Don’t mess around.
A prison North of NYC. Clinton Correctional Facility.
The upper parts of Manhattan. Anything above 100st. Harlem, Spanish Harlem and upwards.
Short for victim. A stick up kid (robber) term for a potential victim.
Not good, terrible. Referring to someone’s skills, clothes, situations.
1- An LP or record. A DJ term for records.
2- Means to keep it cool
1- a nice looking expensive car.
24 hours 7 days a week. Meaning your doing something all day and all night.
Imformation, gossip, rummors. Stems from telephone information servcice.
Don’t half step, don’t half fast. Put 100 % into your efforts not 50%.
A diamond; Marquise cut diamonds are very sparkly.
“Echelon” is a level of rank, achievement or reputation.
It is a jacket that were popular in East Coast cities in the ’70s and ’80s.
John Rivas, was a prominent hip hop radio DJ.
Nu Nile is a hair product that made African-textured hair look really slick back in the day.
It is a jive phrase that essentially means to lie.
A woman who is regarded as evil and scheming.
It’s ambiguous: It means sell drugs, but also receive thousands of dollars.
It’s the act of shooting someone in the head.
It was a popular brand of glasses.
They were shoes made of plastic.
A Jamaican term of encouragement or otherwise good cheer.
Tea
Tea is all about exchanging hot gossip. You can get tea, spill tea, and give tea. Often, the term is simply interchangeable with the letter “T.”
Skrt
this word is used to describe the sound tires make when you stop unexpectedly. In conversation, it’s a synonym for “stop.” If a friend is gossiping and you’d like them to revisit part of the story, for example, you can quickly interject with “skrt!”
Damn, Gina
Use this phrase if you’re either surprised by something or want to express approval. If someone finally earned their PhD, for instance, you could say, “Damn, Gina. Look at you!” It’s a throwback to Martin Lawrence’s ’90s sitcom Martin, in which he’d regularly use the phrase when addressing his wife Gina
Shook
To feel shook is to be shaken up by something, for better or worse. The 2017 clip of comedian Christine Sydelko saying “I am shooketh!” brought it into the mainstream.
Salty
The actual definition of the word can be used to describe something witty, racy, coarse, and humorous—and so folks use salty in relation to bitter behavior. If someone is acting salty towards you, they are likely upset.
Woke
If you’ve kept up with the latest political headlines and aren’t afraid to have an opinion against them, you’re likely “woke.” “We have a moral obligation to ‘stay woke,’ take a stand and be active,”
Mood
mood specifically is derived from Black culture and it’s used next to a meme, video, or photo to emphasize that something is relatable. This feel-good clip of Lisa and Bart Simpson dancing, for example, is a mood.
Bye, Felicia
If you’re tired of putting up with someone, tell them, “Bye, Felicia!” It’s a way of dismissing them or their request.
Receipts
It’s all about accountability here. Asking someone to show you the receipts essentially means you want proof
Beat
“Beat” can be used as a verb or adjective, and it’s all about beauty. To beat is to apply makeup, and if someone is described as being “beat,” it means they either applied their makeup well, or just applied a lot of it. Used in a sentence as a verb: “I have to meet the parents tonight so I’m going to beat my face.”
Kiki
A kiki is a party or festive gathering, though it can be used as a verb. To kiki, for instance, has a double meaning: either to celebrate, or to share gossip. This is perfectly expressed in the Scissor Sisters music video for “Let’s Have a Kiki,”
No Cap
This is used to emphasize that a statement isn’t a lie or hyperbole, so think of it as a synonym for the word seriously. Used in a sentence: Your Halloween costume is incredible, no cap.
Swerve
While there are several definitions, to swerve is to avoid something, or steer clear of an unwanted situation. Similarly to other terms on this list, it’s been historically used in Black culture.
On Fleek
This can be used as a replacement for “on point,” meaning something has been immaculately executed.Specifically, a 2014 Vine video in which a woman describes her eyebrows as “on fleek” is what brought it into the mainstream. Today, it’s used far beyond the context of eyebrows.
TBH
to be honest. Often, it’s used for emphasis while admitting something about yourself. An example? I really love Lady Gaga, tbh.
Slaps
to slap is to “strike sharply with or as if with the open hand,” so the word is now colloquially used to describe something—a song, your meal, new shoes, anything—that strikes you as good, that’s impressive. Used in a sentence. This new recipe from Oprah’s plant-based diet slaps.
Slay
Slay is to do something exceptionally well. While Merriam-Webster defines it as, “to kill violently,” and traces its etymology to the 12th century,
Read
Used as a verb, a “read” is essentially an insult, and a catty way of calling out someone’s flaws. The slang term derives from both the Black and LGBTQ communities, and is also regularly used in Paris Is Burning. Mariah Carey’s “I don’t know her” line about J.Lo is the ultimate read.
Clock
to clock is to “hit hard.” Therefore, if you clock, are clocking, or clocked, someone, you essentially strike them across the head with an insult. It’s similar to a “read,” but slightly more aggro
Realness
Executive Realness
A convincing drag queen with natural beauty that portrays a business formal look.
OMG She is so SICKENING in that business suit, giving us executive realness.
The more you mimic someone’s demeanor, the closer you’ve gotten to achieving realness.
Dead
it means that something is so funny or ridiculously good it’s forced you to be hyperbolic. Used in a sentence: Did you see that scene in that incredible Netflix comedy? I’m dead.
Shade
You can “throw shade” or “be shady,” in other words, subtly (or indirectly) disrespect someone.”Shade is, I don’t have to tell you you’re ugly, but I don’t have to tell you because you know you’re ugly.” Shade.
All Tea All Shade
A phrase that means the person is coming for and/or attacking someone purposely. The opposite of the phrase “No tea no shade” that basically means “No offense.”Usually said after someone says “No tea no shade” as a way to say that the person is actually trying to offend someone.
Alyssa: What you’re wearing is all garbage, no tea no shade.Coco: All tea all shade!
Snatched
If a person’s hair, makeup, our outfit looks particularly fab, they’re snatched. In addition, it’s also used as a verb to describe your reaction to something amazing: “J.Lo’s performance snatched my wig.”
Gag
There are two ways to use this. First, as a synonym for a punchline or joke. For instance, “La La Land was announced as the winner of the 2017 Oscar for Best Picture, but the gag is that Moonlight actually won.” The other way is based on its traditional definitions, one of which is to choke. If someone is so good, or so shocking, you’ll gag over it: “Look at Meghan Markle in that tuxedo jacket. I’m gagging!”
Basic
Anything mainstream is considered basic. Pumpkin spice lattes, for instance, are basic (to some).
Yas
To express praise for something or someone, a simple “yas,” will do.”yass Gaga, you look so good.”
G.O.A.T.
Here’s an easy one: G.O.A.T. is an acronym for greatest of all time. Commonly referenced in sports: When it comes to tennis, Serena Williams is the G.O.A.T.
Gucci
Yes, Gucci is the name of a luxury Italian fashion label, but its use in hip-hop songs like D&D’s “What’s Gucci” has made it synonymous with “good.” It can help reflect a feeling (“I’m Gucci!”) or can be used as an adjective for something you love (“That’s so Gucci!”).
Keep It 100
it basically means to be authentic.
tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. AKA “Keep it Real” or be honest with youself as well as others.
I keep it 100 with all the people I come across.She’s been keeping it 100 since the day I met her.
Lit
Often whipped out in a party context, it’s now a replacement for “really good.”
Low Key
For something to be low key, it must be secretive or “kinda” what you actually want. Used in a sentence: “I might order the salad, but I’m low key craving the pasta.”
High key
The opposite of lowkey is highkey.
“I lowkey wanna eat an entire cake.””I highkey wanna eat healthy, but lowkey wanna to eat an entire cake.””I am lowkey in love with Kevin Spacey.”
Ratchet
This is generally used to describe someone as obnoxious, rude, or trashy, though it’s also interchangeable with “cool” in a different context.
Savage
To perform a savage act is to do so unapologetically. This word is used as internet slang when describing a shocking event or a careless attitude. Used in a sentence: “Did you see how Ashley Graham shut down trolls? Savage.” Unfortunately, it was initially introduced as a derogatory way of describing Native Americans.
Stan
describes a stan as an “overzealous or obsessive fan of a particular celebrity.”
Thirsty
To be “thirsty” is to desperately want approval.
I always get thirsty looking at your fine tits
Turnt
Used as a synonym for drunk in hip-hop songs like Lupe Fiasco’s “All the Way Turnt Up” and Lecrae’s “I’m Turnt,” this one has evolved to mean extreme excitement. If you wanted to express enthusiasm over an upcoming work project, you could theoretically say, “Our launch is gonna be turnt.”
Twerk
this phrase which describes a “sexually suggestive” way of dancing
A dance that requires you to shake your booty up and down
Sus
when someone says or does something gay on accident
Kevin: i like his tight shortsJoe: thats sus
Bruh
another way of saying really, or seriously.
little brother: I want to be Snow White for Halloween!big brother: bruh.
Hunty
An amalgamate of honey and cunty. A demeaning term without being overly aggressive.
Don’t be jealous because my hair is layed, hunty
Humble brag
When someone complains about their life while sneaking in a brag
go AWOL
go missing
Slim Shady
Answer: A term of endearment used to express appreciation of someone or something. Often used to praise a person’s effort or achievement or to express sympathy.
Smoke ‘n’ Mirrors
Answer: A euphemism for masturbation, often used when a person is sexually aroused or nervous.
Smoke Weed, Man Smoke Weed, Man
Answer: A derogatory term for someone or something of low status or value.
Slacktivism
Answer: A term used to refer to any form of advocacy of radical, leftist or liberal causes.
Snicker
Answer: An exclamation of amusement at another person’s foolishness or incompetence
Ace
Answer: Best friend, main man, a person who has someone’s back, or protection or who will go down for there friend or crew.
Aight
Answer: Short for “all right”, everything is cool,
or, a way of saying something is not great, and not bad, but in the middle like.
Ak
Answer: AK 47 gas-operated assault rifle.
All that
Answer: You think you hot, or the hottest, or the coolest.
B
Answer: An east coast term short for brother, or bro.
Baby Mama Baby Daddy
Answer: A person you had a child with.
Back/Back up
Answer: 1- Booty, but, nice looking round butt. Remember the song “Baby got back”.
2- Crew, people that will defend you and back you up in a situation.
Bail
Answer: To Leave, or go. Short for leaving someplace (usually
Bangin/ Bang
Answer: 1- Short gang term for “Gang Bangin”
2- Girl with a ghetto body, big booty, slim waist
3- Term for sexing a girl.
Banger
Answer: Knife or a sharp weapon.
Bank
Answer: Money, cash
Baller
Answer: Ghetto term for money makers in the hood, be it by legal or illegal activities.
Also a term for a street basketball player.
Beef
Answer: Serious trouble with an individual, or group, or gang. It’s to have arguments or war.
Benjamins
Answer: $100 bills.
Benz
Answer: Short for Mercedes Benz.
Biscuit
Answer: Gun/butt
Blew it up/ Blew up the spot
Answer: When a Hip Hop crew (MC’s, BBOYS, WRITERS, DJ) gives a great performance that leaves the crowd or observers screaming.
Blunted
Answer: High Off of marijuana rolled in a Philly blunt (cigar).
Bolo/ BOLOS
Answer: 1) Meaning: Be on the lookout.
2) Term used to describe a wild punch that was invented by famous boxer Kid Chocolate and used by Sugar Ray Leonard.
Bomb
Answer: 1- A graffiti rampage on trains and walls, where you try and flood as many tags and throw ups as possible.
2- When fighting to throw as many big punches as to end the fight quick.
Break
Answer: 1-The percussive part of an 70’s James Brown style record, where the drums play a funky beat. This we called the break, and is one of the key roots to Hip Hop music.
2- original NYC gang term for getting violent on someone, or a situation. Stems from the word Breaking Point.
Booya
Answer: 1- sound of a shot gun blast
2- Used as an exclamation point
3- Name of a west coast Samoan Gangsta rap group
Break it down
Answer: 1- To dissect a knowledge situation or concept, and explain it in a simple format
2- to get down in any aspect of culture, especially dance.
Buggin
Answer: Buggin means you trippin or wilen
Bust / Bus
Answer: To take action or fight/hit/punch/shoot gun.
Also can mean to dance, or get down
note: saying “bust a move” is incredibly corny and old now.
Busta
Answer: A person who is fake, phony, or a punk who can’t fight, or snitches.
Butter
Answer: When someone, something, or someone’s Hip Hop skills are great and smooth.
Buck/ Buck Wild
Answer: 1- To shoot someone, or at someone.
2- To get crazy one someone, or violent on someone.
3- To get crazy with ones Hip Hop skills.
Bum Rush
Answer: 1- When a crew or group of people rush the door or gates of a party without paying. Bum meaning person with no cash, rush meaning forcing there way in.
2- A person getting jumped/ beat up by a group of people.
But/Booty
Answer: 1- When someone, someone’s skills or something is not good or is lacking.
2- Someone’s butt
Cheese/Cheddar
Cheese/Cheddar
Money, cash
Chill
Answer: Relax, stay cool.
Chin Check
Answer: Punch someone in the chin/ face, To test someone’s chin with a punch to see if they can take it.
Chips
Answer: Referring to casino chips, money, cash.
Chrome
Answer: 1- Guns
2- Chrome car rims
Chucks
Answer: Short for Chuck Taylor Converse all stars sneakers, made popular in the 1970’s and were heavily popular in East coast Hip Hop and West coast Gangs.
Cipher
Answer: 1- refers to a circle of people where Mc’s battle, and freestyle, or BBoys battles and get down. It is where BBOYS and MC’s get there real training and work on there skills.
2- in 5% religion (an NYC based religion made popular by rap artists like Brand Nubian and Wu Tang) it refers to the chosen and the non chosen, 5% and non 5%, and angels and devils..so forth.
Clock, Clockin
Answer: 1- Killin time
2- Punch someone in the head.
Clown walkin
Answer: New young Hip Hop dance style. Uses allot of footwork.
Cold
Answer: 1- Short for cold hearted. Not nice, that’s not cool, what you did was cold.
2- Great, nice, good. Young people now use it to mean when something is great.
3- a word that expresses an attribute of something. Cold chillin, cold knock you out, Cold gettin down.
4- When your wrist cold
Cop
Answer: To buy, originally a term for buying drugs.
Crab
Answer: 1-A ghetto girl with nothing happening and too much attitude. A slutty girl.
2- A person who has nothing to show for him or herself, and still likes to talk crap
Crackin/ What’s crackin/ Crackalackin
Answer: Whats happening.
Crew
Answer: A group of people who work together for a common cause. Originally a slang used by the Mob for a crew of men who work to rob, steel and extort money.
In Hip Hop a crew can also be a group of MC’s (rappers), BBOYS, WRITERS (graffiti artists).
Crib
Answer: A persons home.
Crooklyn
Answer: Slang for Brooklyn
Cut up/ Cuttin the rug
Answer: Refers to gettin down, dancing.
Dead Presidents
Answer: Paper money.
Deep
Answer: 1- A wise person, a person who speaks with great knowledge.
2- A large group of people traveling together to a party, or how a person rolls up to a club, or spot.
Def
Answer: Old school term for something great.
Deuce
Answer: Ghetto way of saying the number 2
22 caliber gun = deuce deuce
42nd street = forty deuce
Dilly/Dealy/What the Dealy
Answer: Whats the deal?, whats going on?.
Dip
Answer: 1- Time to go, to leave.
2- Original Hip Hop rhyme started by members of the Furious 5.
Dip dive socialize
trying to make yall realize
that we are qualified
to rectify
to satisfy
to burn in desire, set them on fire
to boogie
Digits
Digits
Phone number
Dime
Answer: 1- bag of weed
2- A snitch, the amount for a phone call in the 60’s and 70’s and that’s what it took for a snitch to make a call.
3- a way to tell a female or male to call you.
4- referring to Bo Derrick’s move TEN, a perfect woman with pretty face, and ghetto body
Dis
Answer: Short for disrespect
Dog/Dawg
Answer: 1- friend that you can count on in times of trouble. A person who watches your back.
2- Old school NYC word for beating someone up.
Dome/Dome piece
Answer: A persons head. Usually referring to fighting and punching someone in the head, or shooting someone in the head.
Don
Answer: Spanish and Italian word for God father, or person of great respect.
They will put the word before there real name.
Dope/dopenes
Answer: 1- Another word for someone or something great
2- Drugs, heroin
Do or Die
Answer: Slang for Bedstuy Brooklyn. Do or Die Bedstuy.
D.L/Down Low
Answer: To keep something quiet, to protect a secret, shhh don’t tell anyone, or to lay low and not be seen for a while because of a situation.
Down by Law
Answer: An old school term for a person who is certified, or who has great credentials, great repoir in the streets
Dozens
Answer: A back and forth game of making fun of each others mothers, family, disabilities. This is no holds bar jokes where people get there feelings hurt, but you have suck it up. Mama jokes seem to be the most common and popular.-Your girlfriend is so stupid, the first time she used a vibrator she cracked her two front teeth.
-Your sister is so stupid, she went to the baker for a yeast infection.
-Your mother is so dumb, she couldn’t pass a blood test.
Your mother is so ugly, when he sits in the sand the cat tries to bury he
Drop Science
Answer: To teach street knowledge to other people, knowledge of self
Easy, Be easy
Easy, Be easy
Be smooth.
Ends
Answer: Short for make ends meet, to have or keep money.
Fade/Faded
Answer: 1- refers to the Philly haircut where they fade the sides and the back to your skin
2- It’s to be high on drugs or liquor
Fakin jacks
Answer: To be phony or acting phony.
A person telling lies.
Fasho
Answer: For sure
Fiend
Answer: To be desperate for something, like a crackhead.
Fifth
Answer: A fifth of bacardi.
Flava
Answer: To have style, pizzazz.
Flex
Answer: Referring to flexing muscle. To try and intimidate someone, or to prepare to fight someone.
Fly/Fly Girl/Fly Guy
Answer: A person who looks, dresses, and smells good. Always got there hair done, spends allot of time and money to make themselves look good.
Flow
Answer: 1- to have plenty of money/ income flowing in due to legal or illegal activities.
2- An MC or Dancer who can move or rhyme nonstop smoothly without breaking there flow.
Forty
Answer: Referring to a forty ounce of beer.
Freestyle
Answer: 1- Original term for a style of dance that came before house dance.
2- Off the top of the head, when an MC (rapper) rhymes with no pre written rhymes.
3- term for a form of Hip Hop dance that borrows from many styles of dance in and outside of Hip Hop and then freestyle’s it off the top of the head with no routines.
Fresh
Answer: To be great, or brand new. To dance or rhyme, or do a great wild style graffiti piece. To dress nice and look good.
Front
Answer: To fake something your not. Pretending to be tuff. To not show up for a situation or a fight.
Funk/Funky
Answer: 1- It refers to a music style that originated with drummers in New Orleans like earl Palmer describing the type of sound they want to play.
2- It was a term also coined by James Brown referring to the music making people move and dance so much that at the end of the night the club would be/ smell funky from all the sweating and perspiration. so James Brown would say
3- refers to a style of music originated by the African American community. heavy bass, syncopated drums, and funky grooves.
JAMES BROWN, PARLIAMENT FUNCADELIC, SLY STONE.
4- FAKIN THE FUNK means to be fake in music or Hip Hop or on the streets. Or not really
funky.
Foreally/Foreals/Foriila/Forealdo.
Answer: Slang for “FOREAL”
G
Answer: 1- short for gangsta
2- short for grand, $1,000
Game
Answer: 1- To have rap or the words to talk to a fly girl. Or to have words to get out of trouble.
2- To be down to do something, or ready to forward in a situation.
3- To be good at basketball, to always have a good game.
Geese
Answer: To rob a house. And fly like geese.
Get Down/Get Loose/Get buzy
They all mean to dance, jam, rock turntables, rock a graffiti piece.
Ghetto Bird
Answer: Police helicopter.
Ghost
Answer: To disappear, to leave inconspicuously, without know one seeing you.
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Go Off
Answer: 1- To let off physical energy like a bomb. To let loose and fight or get violent on someone.
2- To get down and dance with massive energy.
Grill/Grillin
Answer: 1- another word for face.
2- To be stared at by another person with a mean face.
3-A thing in someones teeth
Grind/Grinding
Answer: When a drug dealer is on the streets selling drugs, he’s on the grind or grinding.
A person who is constantly hittin the streets to find ways to make money to survive in the hood legally or illegally.
Gritty
Answer: Street, dirty, diggin deep.
Gully
Answer: Ghetto tuff, gutter, raw, gangsta.
Hard Core
Answer: 1- Real street raw. A person into street raw style Hip Hop music about street life, guns, murder, drugs. Raw Hip Hop, Not the party stuff.
2- when a person is into something, or an activity more than others.
Hard Rock
Answer: An old school term for a New York thug or gangsta.
Hawk
Answer: 1) To stare at or be stared at hard.
Originally this was from people of color who were stared at by store or shop owners/ workers who thought that you were gonna steal something. So the shop owner/ worker will follow you around the store and stare at you.
referring to a bird of prey with great vision.
2) Weapon
Heart
Answer: To have courage, to be brave
Holla
Answer: To call someone out, or contact someone.
Herb
Answer: 1- A punk, or someone who is soft.
2- Marijuana, weed.
Home Skillet/Home Boy/Homey
Answer: 1- Close friend from around the way.
2- Used to be a dis, when calling someone homely meant like a mamas boy, who never goes out.
Hood
Answer: Short for neighborhood, but refers to ghetto neighborhood.
Hood Rat
Answer: Refers to a girl from around the way (your block, hood) who has sex with every guy on your block/ hood.
Hot 110
Answer: And old school original graffiti term. When a writer (graffiti) writer or crosses out his enemies name, or a toy (week graffiti writer). He or she will write “hot 110” over there name.
Hottie
Answer: Mid eighties term for a fine young lady. meaning she’s hot, She’s a hottie.
Hummin
Answer: 1- Rhymes with bummin so was used to call someone a bum.
2- Person with bad breath.
Hustler
Answer: Person who is always on the grind trying to make money.
A person who never sits on his or her riches, but stays grinding for more money.
A person who does what ever it takes to make money legal or illegal.
Hype/Hype Man
Answer: 1- To perform (Hip Hop)or play ball with great energy. To get hype with a burst of energy.
2- It is an MC who backs up a main rapper (in a rap group) to keep the crowd/ audience hyper during the performance.
I Ain’t the one
Answer: Short for “I ain’t the one to be messed with”.
Ice
Answer: Jewelry covered with diamonds
Ill
Answer: Way of saying something is so great it is sickening.
Iron Horse
Answer: Subway train.
Jack
Answer: 1- Term for robbing a person, or car jacking, steeling someone’s car.
2- Also a word similar to dude.
Jake
Answer: A cop, police officer.
Jam
1- Name of an old school original Hip Hop party in the parks, school yards, small night clubs, youth centers, and so forth.
2- A term for a cool funky record that someone really likes.
Jet
Answer: To leave in a hurry.
Juice
Answer: A persons street credibility. In the streets it means to have what we called Pull. Meaning we can make something happen.
Kicks
Answer: Sneakers, tennis shoes
Kickin
Answer: Good, appealing, great.
Know the ledge
Answer: To have knowledge or self and everything around you, to have street knowledge
Krump/Krumpin
Answer: New Hip Hop dance that just came out of the streets of LA, made popular by the movie “RISE”. Affiliated with dances styles like clown walkin, the stripper dance.
Krunk
Answer: 1- To have a good time, and party hard
2- new style of Hip Hop music made popular in the Dirty South (Southern States) by artists like Lil John.
L
Answer: 1- Short for elevated train platforms. Outside train stations.
2- joint
Lifted
Answer: A person who is high off drugs or liquor.
Mc
Answer: Master of ceremonies. In Hip Hop an MC was the original term for Rapper. Mic Controller.
Mack
Answer: Ladies man, a guy who can get any girl he wants. Made popular by the blaxploitation movie in the 70’s.
Mad
Answer: A term used to explain when something is extra huge, or great.
Math
Answer: Phone number
Murk
Answer: 1- To kill.
2- To leave.
Newjack
Answer: A person wet behind the ears, who has no street experience, a rookie.
Non stop
Answer: Term takin from subway train terminology. Used to describe a party or situation or activity that won’t end for a long time. made popular in early Hip Hop rhymes.
Off
Answer: Shoot, Kill.
Old School/Old Schooler
Answer: A way of saying Back in the days in the streets, school of hard knocks. A person who was representing the streets back in the days. Early days of the streets.
One/One love
Answer: Street way of saying good bye. Bidding someone peace.
Latino people will say Uno.
Ox
Answer: A box cutter or razor blade
Parlayin
Answer: Chillin, relaxing
P.C
Answer: Punk City, a term for a special protective jail cell for inmates who are in danger within prison population. Usually meant for inmates who can’t fight or have no pull in the prison (they don’t know any one).
Piece
Answer: 1- A gun
2- An outlined graffiti artwork with color fill ins, and decorated on a train, wall, or black book (hardcover graffiti book)
Played/Play yourself
Answer: 1- To be discovered that your pretending your something your not, or to get caught in a lie.
2- when someone takes you for a fool. You usually get played by a so called friend or boyfriend/ girlfriend cheating on you.
Playa/Playa Hater
Answer: 1- a guy who has tons of girls and manages to play them all at the same time.
2- A person who can play the streets and system to get what he wants.
3- It is a person who down plays another playas game.
Played Out
Answer: When a fad is over and old, and no one is doing it no more.
Pop/Poped
Answer: 1- To shoot someone
2- To get busted by the police and sent to jail.
Rikers Island
Answer: A prison
Run it/ Run it back
Answer: 1-What a stick up kid (robber) would say to a victim, if it’s for a bike, or a wallet or a chain.
2- Mean rewind, or try again, or bring it back.
Saggin
Answer: Wearing you pants low and most of the time with no belt. This style of dress originated in the prison system because they confiscated belts and shoe laces so an inmate can’t hang himself.
Sawed off
Answer: A sawed off shotgun, in which the barrel(s) are sawed off to become shorter, for the purpose of the pellets inside the shells to spread out over a vast area. The accuracy is lessened by this but a sawed off 12 gauge is a gully weapon to have.
Sazon
Answer: A type of Puerto Rican food seasoning that gives Spanish food it’s flavor. The term is used by Puerto Ricans to describe someone with style and flavor.
Scrilla
Answer: Money
Scrub
Answer: 1- Originally a sports term for a person who sucks at a particular sport.
2- A term used by material girls/ gold diggers to describe A dude with no money, no car, no class, but he fronts and tries to get material girls.
Serve
Answer: To beat someone in a Hip Hop Battle. MC battle, BBOY battle, Graffiti battle, DJ battle.
Shank
Answer: A home made knife made in prison out of any object that can be sharpened.
Shorty
Answer: 1- Originally a gang term for a young kid from the neighborhood.
2- A cute/ fly ghetto girl/ honey.
Skeezer
Answer: 80’s term for slut.
Snuff/Sneak/Snuck
Answer: To sneak a punch or an attack on someone when there not lookin.
Spittin
Answer: 1- When an MC (rapper) starts rhyming.
2- It is when a person is flirting with a female.
Stack chips
Answer: To make money and save it, or put it away, then go out and make more money. A term for hustlers.
Straight
Answer: Everything is OK.
An individual is OK.
Strapped
Answer: Packing a gun.
Tag
Answer: Writing your nick name on a wall or train.
Tax
Answer: Forcibly take your money like the government. To rob.
Thorough
Answer: When something is cool, good , or safe it’s thorough.
Toy Cop
Answer: Security guards who act like there real cops.
True Dat
Answer: Means that is true.
Twisted
Answer: Don’t get it wrong, or don’t get me wrong. Don’t mess around.
Up North
Answer: A prison North of NYC. Clinton Correctional Facility.
Uptown
Answer: The upper parts of Manhattan. Anything above 100st. Harlem, Spanish Harlem and upwards.
Up/Get up
Answer: A writers (graffiti) main goal is to gain fame. To get up, is to gain fame by bombing the system (trains, walls, busses) with as many tags and throw ups.
Vic
Answer: Short for victim. A stick up kid (robber) term for a potential victim.
Wack
Answer: Not good, terrible. Referring to someone’s skills, clothes, situations.
Wax
Answer: 1- An LP or record. A DJ term for records.
2- Means to keep it cool
Whip
Answer: 1- a nice looking expensive car.
Wreck/Wreck Shop
Answer: To accomplish or destroy.
Xerox
Answer: To Copy
Youngin
Answer: A young person
Zootie/Zooted/Zootie Bang
Answer: High on angel dust, PCP.
22
Answer: 22 caliber gun
24/ 7
Answer: 24 hours 7 days a week. Meaning your doing something all day and all night.
38
Answer: 38 caliber gun
40
Answer: 40 ounce of beer
44
Answer: 44 caliber gun
411/What’s the 411
Answer: Imformation, gossip, rummors. Stems from telephone information servcice.
808
Answer: Roland 808 drum machin sounds. Refering to one particular bass beat sound made popular in early 80’s NYC Hip Hop, now used in most Dirty South music as well as Miami Bass music.
No half steppin
Answer: Don’t half step, don’t half fast. Put 100 % into your efforts not 50%.
Catch this fade
Answer: When you wanna fight
Ginsu
Answer: Knife
C4
Answer: C-4 (explosive)
RDX
Answer: RDX, an initialism for Research Department explosive,[2] is an explosive nitroamine widely used in military and industrial applications. It was developed as an explosive which was more powerful than TNT, and it saw wide use in World War II.
Marquise
Answer: A diamond; Marquise cut diamonds are very sparkly.
AMC Pacer
Answer: Ugly car.
Ford Excursion
Answer: Ugly car 2.
Toe tag
Answer: 1. A method of identification of bodies in a morgue. A label on string tied to a deceased persons toe with their name and other information on it. Anklebands (like the wristbands you get when you visit a hospital) are now more common.2. (Slang) To kill somebody.
Maafa
Answer: Maafa (or African Holocaust, Holocaust of Enslavement, or Black holocaust as alternatives) are terms used to describe the history and ongoing effects of atrocities inflicted on African people.
Echelon
“Answer: Echelon” is a level of rank, achievement or reputation.
Ted DiBiase
Answer: He was a wrestler. He was called the “Million Dollar Man”, a millionaire who wore a gold-studded, dollar-sign-covered suit.
Cheeba & Ganja
Answer: Marijuana
Strong Island
Answer: Nickname of Long Island
Sheepskin
Answer: It is a jacket that were popular in East Coast cities in the ’70s and ’80s.
New York Hot Tracks
Answer: It is another classic NYC throwback. It was a television show guest hosted by The Beastie Boys and Run DMC, among others. It was cancelled in 1989.
Mr. Magic
Answer: John Rivas, was a prominent hip hop radio DJ.
Nu Nile
Answer: Nu Nile is a hair product that made African-textured hair look really slick back in the day.
Stush
Answer: Conceited, superior, having an air of rude hauteur particularly with regard to personal appearance – but with good reason.
Sirat al-Mustaqim
Answer: It is an Arabic term for the Islamic concept of the straight path, or the way of life which makes God happy (it’s a quote from the first Surah in the Quran: Surat Al-Fatiha)
Deen
Answer: It is a common Arabic term that is associated with religion. In Islamic context, it refers to a way of life that that is pleasing to God
“Talking out your neck”
Answer: It is a jive phrase that essentially means to lie.
Jezebel
Answer: A woman who is regarded as evil and scheming.
“Poppin’ yang”
Answer: Means talking trash.
Clock G’s
Answer: It’s ambiguous: It means sell drugs, but also receive thousands of dollars.
NSFW
Answer: Not Safe For Work.
Cap peeling
Answer: It’s the act of shooting someone in the head.
Fugazi
Answer: Means fake in Italian slang.
Tanqueray
Answer: A London Dry Gin. It is sold a various proofs, but the lowest seems to be 80 (or, around 40% abv). It is, in other words, a very strong drink.
Gazelle
Answer: It was a popular brand of glasses.
Jellies
Answer: They were shoes made of plastic.
Cazal
Answer: A pair of sunglasses
Tote
Answer: Synonym for carry
Ringolevio
It is a game, in which the seeking team would try to grab kids on the hiding team and hold them Answer: long enough to say ‘Ringolevio 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3’.
Inf
IAnswer: nfrared beam
Bogart
Answer: Means to hold something, usually a drink, joint, cigarette, etc., for a long time without sharing it.
Herringbone
Answer: It refers to a weaving pattern of broken V-shapes, called such because it resembles the skeleton of a herring fish
PCP
Answer: Angel Dust
Big up
Answer: A Jamaican term of encouragement or otherwise good cheer.