Etymology: Dope - English Language Usage Stack Exchange 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
etymology - English Language Usage Stack Exchange 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
Origin of current slang usage of the word sick to mean great? 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
What is a polite substitute for badass (used as a noun)? Badass is slang, so it's going to depend on where you are and who you are talking to It's simply cultural For example if you said to my grandfather that he was a badass, he would be quite upset because in he doesn't use 'bad' words to describe good things
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
The Dude abides — what does abide mean in that context? I'm unfamilar with the word "abide" which is famously used the the movie quote "The Dude abides" (The Big Lebowski) Looking it up in a German English dictionary makes me believe it's "The Dude li
Where did the phrase batsh*t crazy come from? There's anecdotal evidence scattered around the internet, like in this Straight Dope Message Board discussion, that definition #1 was in common use in the US military during the 1950s Someone else points out there that Hunter S Thompson may have picked up the term in the Air Force, from which he was discharged in 1958