Hip-Hop Slang, Jargon, and New Words from Double-Tongued Dictionary

Hip-hop (rap) music and culture. This may include AAVE terms. You can also see entries assigned to this category.

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dirty dirty n. “People like to talk and divide us. People like to break us apart. But we all the Dirty South.” “Dirty, dirty.” [English United States Southern Hip-Hop Music Nickname] [full cite] (Oct. 12, 2004)

Dirty South n. “I’m from the Dirty South,” Hood quipped, in reference to the term now applied to rap music coming from this region. [English United States Southern Entertainment Hip-Hop Music Nickname] [full cite] (Oct. 10, 2004)

dunkadelic adj. The Dunkadelic terminology is the most versitle adjective in all of sports. It’s the first sports term to combine the culture of sports and music into a fashionable pop culture term. It was first created in Baltimore, Maryland by Derrick E. Vaughan as a brand name for athetic apparel and basketball sneakers. [English Hip-Hop Sports & Recreation] [full cite] (Jul. 2, 2005)

feenin n. “Feenin‘“="fiending”. you know like wanting. a crack fiend, a microphone fiend. [English United States Hip-Hop] [full cite] (Sep. 28, 2004)

fi n. Also, maybe I should keep a slang dictionary on hand for words like “crunk” and “fi.” [English Hip-Hop Slang] [full cite] (May. 4, 2004)

fiend v. I fiend for the music, but not as actively as I have in the past. I now fiend for people’s interactions with hiphop music: what it does to them, how it changes their views, how and if they feel they belong in the culture. [English United States Hip-Hop] [full cite] (Sep. 29, 2004)

fiending n. You’ve seen it, they mean it, now I’m fiending for a bum rush. [English United States Hip-Hop] [full cite] (Sep. 28, 2004)

flip the script v. phr. Now flip the tape and watch Scarface flip the script onna song called “Raise Up,” which once again was misnamed…it should’ve been “Raise Up Bitch.” [English Hip-Hop] [full cite] (Mar. 3, 2006)

floss v. The scene metamorphosed into “kind of a floss-fest,” notes R. J. de Vera, a tuner pioneer who oversees his own performance-oriented brands RO— JA and Motegi Racing. “Flossing” is a hip-hop term that means showing off, a big part of the sensibility that shaped the “dub” market. [English United States Automobiles & Transportation Hip-Hop Slang] [full cite] (Jul. 11, 2004)

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