Jan 5, 2016 · In 1981, ‘dope’ made the leap from noun to adjective and, more importantly, from negative connotation to positive connotation, coming to mean excellent in the lexicon of the emerging hip-hop culture. The process by which dope became good is known as inversion or incongruity. Slang functions as an anti-language.

Sep 8, 2017 · The OED itself does not explicitly comment on how the drug-related sense of "dope" developed, but the way in which the senses are organised implies a different theory: sense 3a (1851) is a "simpleton" or "fool" (or a person under the influence of drugs, with an 1866 quote describing a "dozened" "dope", where "dozened" means stupefied or ...

Jan 22, 2014 · 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?).

Jul 11, 2018 · To some extent, the word appears to be interchangeable with dope. One thing that seems odd to me is that it often seems to occur next to the word "fam." I'm wondering what the relevance of this connection is. Examples of "fire" This song is so fire. My goodness. Twitter; I play this tune more than once each day. The whole Ep is fire!!! Twitter

This question ought to be reopened, because the current answers are basically wrong. Whether or not other usage in youth culture pre-dates it, sick became slang for pretty much the opposite of what it traditionally means in the late '90s in South London, with predominantly black kids into the 'grime' music scene, which in turn spawned the 'dubstep' music scene.

May 13, 2022 · That's clearly clipped from the common construction as there are dope heads, hip-hop heads, meth heads and so on. Accordingly, the English wiktionary defines head (slang, countable) A heavy or habitual user of illicit drugs.

Dec 16, 2010 · I was listening to John Lennon's song "Gimme Some Truth" just now, and in it there's a recurring line: ". . . money for rope."

Jun 26, 2019 · 5 adj (also phat) teenagers by 1951 Attractive; up to date; =Cool, DOPE, RAD | Fat is recorded by 1932 a[s] meaning "hot," in US dialect, and this may underlie the teenage use: If they are real fat, real crazy, naturally they're real cool—Newsweek [1951]/ Timberland boots have, in the parlance of the street, become "dope" and "phat," i.e ...

Jun 1, 2016 · 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. –

Jun 8, 2011 · It is a mixture of two sayings meaning the same thing, mixed together for comedy value: Is the Pope Catholic? Do bears sh*t in the woods?