Cartões: Hood Slang | Quizlet

Ace

Ace

Best friend, main man, a person who has someone's back, or protection or who will go down for there friend or crew.

Aight

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

AK 47 gas-operated assault rifle.

All that

You think you hot, or the hottest, or the coolest.

B

An east coast term short for brother, or bro.

Baby Mama
Baby Daddy

A person you had a child with.

Back/Back up

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

To Leave, or go. Short for leaving someplace (usually

Bangin/ Bang

1- Short gang term for "Gang Bangin"
2- Girl with a ghetto body, big booty, slim waist
3- Term for sexing a girl.

Banger

Knife or a sharp weapon.

Bank

Money, cash

Baller

Ghetto term for money makers in the hood, be it by legal or illegal activities.
Also a term for a street basketball player.

Beef

Serious trouble with an individual, or group, or gang. It's to have arguments or war.

Benjamins

$100 bills.

Benz

Short for Mercedes Benz.

Biscuit

Gun/butt

Blew it up/ Blew up the spot

When a Hip Hop crew (MC's, BBOYS, WRITERS, DJ) gives a great performance that leaves the crowd or observers screaming.

Blunted

High Off of marijuana rolled in a Philly blunt (cigar).

Bolo/ BOLOS

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

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

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

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

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

Acting silly

Bust / Bus

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

A person who is fake, phony, or a punk who can't fight, or snitches.

Butter

When someone, something, or someone's Hip Hop skills are great and smooth.

Buck/ Buck Wild

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

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

1- When someone, someone's skills or something is not good or is lacking.
2- Someone's butt

Cheese/Cheddar

Money, cash

Chill

Relax, stay cool.

Chin Check

Punch someone in the chin/ face, To test someone's chin with a punch to see if they can take it.

Chips

Referring to casino chips, money, cash.

Chrome

1- Guns
2- Chrome car rims

Chucks

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

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

1- Killin time
2- Punch someone in the head.

Clown walkin

New young Hip Hop dance style. Uses allot of footwork.

Cold

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

To buy, originally a term for buying drugs.

Crab

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

Whats happening.

Crew

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

A persons home.

Crooklyn

Slang for Brooklyn

Cut up/ Cuttin the rug

Refers to gettin down, dancing.

Dead Presidents

Paper money.

Deep

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

Old school term for something great.

Deuce

Ghetto way of saying the number 2
22 caliber gun = deuce deuce
42nd street = forty deuce

Dilly/Dealy/What the Dealy

Whats the deal?, whats going on?.

Dip

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

Phone number

Dime

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

Short for disrespect

Dog/Dawg

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

A persons head. Usually referring to fighting and punching someone in the head, or shooting someone in the head.

Don

Spanish and Italian word for God father, or person of great respect.
They will put the word before there real name.

Dope/dopenes

1- Another word for someone or something great
2- Drugs, heroin

Do or Die

Slang for Bedstuy Brooklyn. Do or Die Bedstuy.

D.L/Down Low

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

An old school term for a person who is certified, or who has great credentials, great repoir in the streets

Dozens

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

To teach street knowledge to other people, knowledge of self

Easy, Be easy

Be smooth.

Ends

Short for make ends meet, to have or keep money.

Fade/Faded

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

To be phony or acting phony.
A person telling lies.

Fasho

For sure

Fiend

To be desperate for something, like a crackhead.

Fifth

A fifth of bacardi.

Flava

To have style, pizzazz.

Flex

Referring to flexing muscle. To try and intimidate someone, or to prepare to fight someone.

Fly/Fly Girl/Fly Guy

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

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

Referring to a forty ounce of beer.

Freestyle

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

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

To fake something your not. Pretending to be tuff. To not show up for a situation or a fight.

Funk/Funky

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.

Slang for "FOREAL"

G

1- short for gangsta
2- short for grand, $1,000

Game

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

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

Police helicopter.

Ghost

To disappear, to leave inconspicuously, without know one seeing you.
2016 Rolls-Royce Car

Go Off

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

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

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

Street, dirty, diggin deep.

Gully

Ghetto tuff, gutter, raw, gangsta.

Hard Core

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

An old school term for a New York thug or gangsta.

Hawk

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

To have courage, to be brave

Holla

To call someone out, or contact someone.

Herb

1- A punk, or someone who is soft.
2- Marijuana, weed.

Home Skillet/Home Boy/Homey

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.