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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grill n. What would be “Hello, my name’s Billy. What’s yours, my new friend?” becomes “Sup,” followed by a long, hard stare (a grill).… Even though most of us have never been in a real fight, the ice grill has been perfected over the years, and can be unleashed in Red Square at a moment’s notice. [English Hip-Hop Slang] [full cite] (Mar. 8, 2005)

grill n. Ranging in price from about $200 up to $50,000 or more, grills, also known as golds or fronts, are removable gold or platinum teeth that fit over real teeth that became popular in the ’80s among underground hip hop artists [English Apparel, Appearance, & Fashion Hip-Hop] [full cite] (Apr. 12, 2006)

guap n. Need dat guap nigga. Niggas out here hungry we tryn to eat nephew. [English Hip-Hop Money & Finance Slang] [full cite] (Apr. 24, 2007)

guap n. Ask me what I paid and I say yeah I paid a “guap.” [English Hip-Hop Money & Finance Slang] [full cite] (Apr. 24, 2007)

guap n. Workin 9 to 5, punchin the clock/It’s all good/It don’t matter how you get that guap/It’s all good/It’s all good. [English Hip-Hop Money & Finance Slang] [full cite] (Apr. 24, 2007)

guap n. I put the guap up, get the boy popped. [English Hip-Hop Money & Finance Slang] [full cite] (Apr. 24, 2007)

guap n. I doubt fab needs to steal a chain. That nigga got guap. [English Hip-Hop Money & Finance Slang] [full cite] (Apr. 24, 2007)

guap n. Late last night I was watching some rap star or hip hop mogul on Carson Daly, and Carson asked him about “new cool urban” words. The guy told him that the new word for “Money” is “Guac” as in short for Guacamole. Some people sometimes refer to this as “Guap.” [English Hip-Hop Money & Finance Slang] [full cite] (Apr. 24, 2007)

hiplife n. Hiplife was almost solely the brainchild of Reginald “Reggie Rockstone” Osei. Memory lane: Whilst we were both in Accra from London on Christmas holidays in 1994, I vividly recollect meeting Reggie at a friend’s place and hearing him rap in Twi. I was quite taken aback, for I’d never heard it done before—and it was effortlessly good. “I’m not new to this rap thing,” hiplife’s founding father—who also coined the genre’s name—tells me almost nine years later. [English Ghana Entertainment Hip-Hop Music] [full cite] (Jul. 27, 2004)

homohop n. Call it gay hip-hop. Or, as some of the artists themselves refer to it, “homohop.” [English Hip-Hop Music] [full cite] (Apr. 30, 2006)

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