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
What do you call slapping someone at the back of their head 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?)
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 does the phrase Fee-fi-fo-fum actually mean? How about Fee, Fye, Pho, ƒum?Fee being the lesser of the Golden Section (or a value of 0 6180339), Fye being the greater of the Golden Section (or a value of 2 6180339), Pho being a shorthand for Fibonacci or Phyllotaxis, and ƒum being the word sum when written in old script
“John Doe”, “Jane Doe” - Why are they used many times? The specific of John Doe is probably that it rhymes - and John is a very common English name It's a very old (medieval) English usage but is now only really used in AE, John Smith is the typical generic name in BE, but it isn't used as a legal term in Britain
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