- 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
- Origin of current slang usage of the word sick to mean great?
I think the pattern is related, though I'm unable to substantiate that Still, I've observed it enough: some adjective is used informally to mean something different than it typically means (maybe even the opposite of what it usually means) – a cool motorcycle, a nasty curveball, a rad (ical) dress, a wicked dance move, a gnarly book, an epic sunset, a sick jump, a bad pizza, etc Somehow
- What does the phrase Does the Pope sh** in the woods? mean?
I heard this phrase in the GTA San Andreas game Sounds pretty offensive, nonetheless I don't really get what he meant to say The context was something like: "Hey do you wanna make some money?" "D
- idiom requests - Is there an expression to indicate the strategy of . . .
Rope-a-dope is a strategy Mohammed Ali (boxer) used to outfox his opponent, George Foreman, in a match called the Rumble in The Jungle He pretended to be beaten, falling on the ropes in the boxing ring so Foreman would pummel him But the ropes absorbed the shock, and Foreman got tired Ali won the match I like Torture by email Nice
- What is the origin of the expression do me a solid?
The semantic development from ‘solid dope’ to ‘favor’ is hard to work out, and solid could easily arise as a nouning by truncation independently in different contexts: from solid N (N = dope, hash, etc ) in a drug context, from something like solid favor in other contexts — and, indeed, from solid pipe in still other contexts and from
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