# Straight Dope Lexicon - Slang Reference Guide **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 25, 2001, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-dope-lexicon-slang-reference-guide/83654 "2001-09-25T07:51:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![ninja\_rydr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/8491ac/32.png) [@ninja\_rydr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ninja_rydr)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2001, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-dope-lexicon-slang-reference-guide/83654/41 "2001-09-27T20:23:29Z")
[snoop dogg] 'sup nephew [/snoop dogg] This thread makes me wanna floss, roll on dubs and throw 'bows fo’sheazy! UHH! ---
**Author:** ![Padeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@Padeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Padeye)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2001, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-dope-lexicon-slang-reference-guide/83654/42 "2001-09-27T20:24:30Z")
I thank merciful God I’m forty and don’t have to worry about this shit. A geezer pathetically trying to be hip is worse than someone who just accepts unhipness. ---
**Author:** ![Lateralus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/35a633/32.png) [@Lateralus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lateralus)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2001, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-dope-lexicon-slang-reference-guide/83654/43 "2001-09-27T21:47:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Padeye \* > \*\*I thank merciful God I’m forty and don’t have to worry about this shit. A geezer pathetically trying to be hip is worse than someone who just accepts unhipness. \*\* Or, you could come to the conclusion that those conforming bastards are the ones who are _actually_ uncool. Either way, it’s uncool to try to coerce others into your conformist regime. Haha. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Big\_Cheese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8baadc/32.png) [@The\_Big\_Cheese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Big_Cheese)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2001, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-dope-lexicon-slang-reference-guide/83654/44 "2001-09-27T21:57:19Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by dalovindj \* > \*\* My mother was very big on propor pronunciation, so I had to learn most of my slang on the street or from songs. \*\* Dude, A song from 1990? ok. First you say you learned it on ‘The Streets’, then you lay a web address on us in the next post, and in a thread over in ‘The Pit’ you first gave us a website to learn ‘hip’. Which is it? Why do I picture you looking like Vanilla Ice… Later ---
**Author:** ![dalovindj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/65b543/32.png) [@dalovindj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalovindj)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2001, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-dope-lexicon-slang-reference-guide/83654/45 "2001-09-28T12:24:06Z")
**The Big Cheese** : It’s all of these things and more. I use references to the art of others which I have experienced and liked to make new humour. Fools who take it seriously are just that. I didn’t come up with these bits (unfortunately) but I’m keeping them going. Don’t hate, people. Just laugh. DaLovin’ Dj PS: Sorry Tuba Diva, I thought it would be cool as long as I posted where I got it from. Lesson learned. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Big\_Cheese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8baadc/32.png) [@The\_Big\_Cheese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Big_Cheese)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2001, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-dope-lexicon-slang-reference-guide/83654/46 "2001-09-28T13:46:54Z")
Sorry Mista DJ, I was a little harsh. Bad day yesterday. 5 large ---
**Author:** ![Astroboy14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2001, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-dope-lexicon-slang-reference-guide/83654/47 "2001-09-28T14:29:57Z")
No offense to anyone meant… But is it “Hip” to teach others to be “Hip”? I mean, either you are or you aren’t! (BTW: I’M hip! I got the shirt, the haircut and the viagra to prove it! …umm… nevermind…🙂 ) But seriously, let people use whatever slang/jargon/whatever they want to use! Granted, if I use the slang of MY generation, I am NOT going to fit in with the younger crowd. But why would I want to? They’re kids, and I am not! Nor am I going to fit in with my father’s generation… again, why would I want to? They’re old, and I am (sort of) young! The slang/jargon, etc. of my generation allows us (IE: those of my generation, country, culture) to speak to each other with layers of nuance and cultural texture that other generations (countries, cultures, etc.) won’t understand completely, but that’s OK… We have just plain old English to use with other generations (countries, cultures, etc.)… and that works OK for me. People of different generations, countries, cultures, religions, etc. will NEVER 100% understand each other… and that’s a good thing! It gives us a vitality… a strength as a people. This failure of homogeneity is, IMO, a GOOD thing! ---
**Author:** ![Astroboy14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2001, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-dope-lexicon-slang-reference-guide/83654/48 "2001-09-28T14:32:34Z")
Oh, BTW: Astroboy has left the house! Peace, out! **Flashing various stupid gang-symbols with my hands…** ---
**Author:** ![Syzygy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Syzygy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Syzygy)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2001, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-dope-lexicon-slang-reference-guide/83654/49 "2001-09-28T14:57:48Z")
[Zaphod] I’m so hip, I have difficulty looking over my pelvis! [/Zaphod] Alright, alright. I’m willing to concede that this slang can be creative and fun. Hey, I’ve been know to throw in a “wack” or “aight” or even a “namean” into a conversation. I always get strange looks from the executive board, but it’s all good. 🙂 Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have to continue work on my Hip/Square Dictionary. Keep an eye out for the Langenscheidt pocket edition, coming to a Barnes and Noble near you! 5G. ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2001, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-dope-lexicon-slang-reference-guide/83654/50 "2001-09-28T15:17:42Z")
I don’t understand anything in this thread. I shall be over in the nerd corner. Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![anya\_marie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ebca7d/32.png) [@anya\_marie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anya_marie)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2001, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-dope-lexicon-slang-reference-guide/83654/51 "2001-09-29T12:55:47Z")
- [old Coot]\* I Know Someone Who Has Far Too Much Time On Their Hands. Idle Hands Are the Devil’s tools/toys._[/old Coot]_ ---
**Author:** ![Astroboy14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2001, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-dope-lexicon-slang-reference-guide/83654/52 "2001-09-29T13:09:28Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by GingerOfTheNorth \* > \*\*I don’t understand anything in this thread. > > I shall be over in the nerd corner. Thank you. \*\* **Ginger** , I protest! You’re _WAY_ hip! And even more importantly, you have very neat handwriting! (I still have the note you sent during the first White Elephant exchange; you’re my hero as I try to improve my own pathetic chicken-scratches…😉 ) Back to being “hip”: Ice, Ice Baby! Ice, Ice Baby! **run away!** ---
**Author:** ![kellibelli](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e480ec/32.png) [@kellibelli](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kellibelli)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2001, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-dope-lexicon-slang-reference-guide/83654/53 "2001-09-29T14:57:00Z")
as said by beatnik,or whatever > [@](#): > > Incorrect. It is intended to be a lexicon of slang used by dopers. I, a doper, post the slang I use. A couple others have added now too. I invite all who use words in ways other than found in dictionarys to elaborate up in THIS bitch. Are you calling ME a bitch, or this thread a bitch? Why is it wrong to post in foreign languages, and morse code, but hip-hop-rap drivel is ok? Witness one and all the dumbing down of the 'Dope! Soon we will be talking in ebonics. ---
**Author:** ![dalovindj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/65b543/32.png) [@dalovindj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalovindj)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2001, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-dope-lexicon-slang-reference-guide/83654/54 "2001-09-29T16:58:01Z")
> [@](#): > > Are you calling ME a bitch, or this thread a bitch? This thread. In cases like these the word “bitch” means “place we are hanging out in”. > [@](#): > > Why is it wrong to post in foreign languages, and morse code, but hip-hop-rap drivel is ok? Because these are slang words from dialects of the ENGLISH language. > [@](#): > > Witness one and all the dumbing down of the 'Dope! > Soon we will be talking in ebonics. If you want to talk in ebonics to relate a point, that’s not dumb, it’s funny. I don’t see how posting information about words and phrases that may not be commonly understood here “dumbs” anything down. Describing, using, and explaining a style of speech that relys less on the “rules” of the english language, and more on the speakers history within a certain culture, is not dumb. Trivial perhaps, but it can only add to the knowledge of people who don’t know these things already. You see, I have spent hundreds of hours hanging out with people from the “hip-hop” culture. I find them overall to be caring, fun and intelligent pepole. They do however use words and phrases in a very unconventional manner. This does not make them dumb. They have alot to say about how people should treat each other, the importance of love, the importance of art, and the importance of fun. Not dumb things at all. Actually some pretty inpiring stuff recently since all of the bulllshit the world just ended up in. It is great to understand and communicate with them. If folks here never get a chance to experience any of that culture, they have missed out. I’m trying to relate my experiences with this vibrant culture in a humourous light. But my overall reasons for starting this thread are as follows: Hip-Hop culture and the like use forms of expression that while different, are valid. Some people don’t understand the references when I speak on the terms of these cultures. And finally many other people here on this board have coined some very amusing words and phrases. I just want to catalog them here. Dalovin’ Dj [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-dope-lexicon-slang-reference-guide/83654.md?page=2)