Hood Slang Part 2
Slang for “all right,” meaning everything is okay or cool. Can also express something that’s just average—not great, but not bad either.
Hood Rat
Refers to a girl from around the way (your block, hood) who has sex with every guy on your block/ hood.
Key Terms
Hood Rat
Refers to a girl from around the way (your block, hood) who has sex with every guy on your block/ hood.
Hot 110
And old school original graffiti term. When a writer (graffiti) writer or crosses out his enemies name, or a toy (week graffiti writer). He or she ...
Hottie
Mid eighties term for a fine young lady. meaning she's hot, She's a hottie.
Hummin
1- Rhymes with bummin so was used to call someone a bum.
2- Person with bad breath.
Hustler
Person who is always on the grind trying to make money.
A person who never sits on his or her riches, but stays grinding for more money.
<...Hype/Hype Man
1- To perform (Hip Hop)or play ball with great energy. To get hype with a burst of energy.
2- It is an MC who backs up a main rapper (in a ra...
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Term | Definition |
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Hood Rat | Refers to a girl from around the way (your block, hood) who has sex with every guy on your block/ hood. |
Hot 110 | And old school original graffiti term. When a writer (graffiti) writer or crosses out his enemies name, or a toy (week graffiti writer). He or she will write "hot 110" over there name. |
Hottie | Mid eighties term for a fine young lady. meaning she's hot, She's a hottie. |
Hummin | 1- Rhymes with bummin so was used to call someone a bum. 2- Person with bad breath. |
Hustler | Person who is always on the grind trying to make money. A person who never sits on his or her riches, but stays grinding for more money. A person who does what ever it takes to make money legal or illegal. |
Hype/Hype Man | 1- To perform (Hip Hop)or play ball with great energy. To get hype with a burst of energy. 2- It is an MC who backs up a main rapper (in a rap group) to keep the crowd/ audience hyper during the performance. |
I Ain't the one | Short for "I ain't the one to be messed with". |
Ice | Jewelry covered with diamonds |
Ill | Way of saying something is so great it is sickening. |
Iron Horse | Subway train. |
Jack | 1- Term for robbing a person, or car jacking, steeling someone's car. 2- Also a word similar to dude. |
Jake | A cop, police officer. |
Jam | 1- Name of an old school original Hip Hop party in the parks, school yards, small night clubs, youth centers, and so forth. 2- A term for a cool funky record that someone really likes. |
Jet | To leave in a hurry. |
Juice | A persons street credibility. In the streets it means to have what we called Pull. Meaning we can make something happen. |
Kicks | Sneakers, tennis shoes |
Kickin | Good, appealing, great. |
Know the ledge | To have knowledge or self and everything around you, to have street knowledge |
Krump/Krumpin | New Hip Hop dance that just came out of the streets of LA, made popular by the movie "RISE". Affiliated with dances styles like clown walkin, the stripper dance. |
Krunk | 1- To have a good time, and party hard 2- new style of Hip Hop music made popular in the Dirty South (Southern States) by artists like Lil John. |
L | 1- Short for elevated train platforms. Outside train stations. 2- joint |
Lifted | A person who is high off drugs or liquor. |
Mc | Master of ceremonies. In Hip Hop an MC was the original term for Rapper. Mic Controller. |
Mack | Ladies man, a guy who can get any girl he wants. Made popular by the blaxploitation movie in the 70's. |
Mad | A term used to explain when something is extra huge, or great. |
Math | Phone number |
Murk | 1- To kill. 2- To leave. |
Newjack | A person wet behind the ears, who has no street experience, a rookie. |
Non stop | Term takin from subway train terminology. Used to describe a party or situation or activity that won't end for a long time. made popular in early Hip Hop rhymes. |
Off | Shoot, Kill. |
Old School/Old Schooler | A way of saying Back in the days in the streets, school of hard knocks. A person who was representing the streets back in the days. Early days of the streets. |
One/One love | Street way of saying good bye. Bidding someone peace. Latino people will say Uno. |
Ox | A box cutter or razor blade |
Parlayin | Chillin, relaxing |
P.C | Punk City, a term for a special protective jail cell for inmates who are in danger within prison population. Usually meant for inmates who can't fight or have no pull in the prison (they don't know any one). |
Piece | 1- A gun 2- An outlined graffiti artwork with color fill ins, and decorated on a train, wall, or black book (hardcover graffiti book) |
Played/Play yourself | 1- To be discovered that your pretending your something your not, or to get caught in a lie. 2- when someone takes you for a fool. You usually get played by a so called friend or boyfriend/ girlfriend cheating on you. |
Playa/Playa Hater | 1- a guy who has tons of girls and manages to play them all at the same time. 2- A person who can play the streets and system to get what he wants. 3- It is a person who down plays another playas game. |
Played Out | When a fad is over and old, and no one is doing it no more. |
Pop/Poped | 1- To shoot someone 2- To get busted by the police and sent to jail. |
Rikers Island | A prison |
Run it/ Run it back | 1-What a stick up kid (robber) would say to a victim, if it's for a bike, or a wallet or a chain. 2- Mean rewind, or try again, or bring it back. |
Saggin | Wearing you pants low and most of the time with no belt. This style of dress originated in the prison system because they confiscated belts and shoe laces so an inmate can't hang himself. |
Sawed off | A sawed off shotgun, in which the barrel(s) are sawed off to become shorter, for the purpose of the pellets inside the shells to spread out over a vast area. The accuracy is lessened by this but a sawed off 12 gauge is a gully weapon to have. |
Sazon | A type of Puerto Rican food seasoning that gives Spanish food it's flavor. The term is used by Puerto Ricans to describe someone with style and flavor. |
Scrilla | Money |
Scrub | 1- Originally a sports term for a person who sucks at a particular sport. 2- A term used by material girls/ gold diggers to describe A dude with no money, no car, no class, but he fronts and tries to get material girls. |
Serve | To beat someone in a Hip Hop Battle. MC battle, BBOY battle, Graffiti battle, DJ battle. |
Shank | A home made knife made in prison out of any object that can be sharpened. |
Shorty | 1- Originally a gang term for a young kid from the neighborhood. 2- A cute/ fly ghetto girl/ honey. |
Skeezer | 80's term for slut. |
Snuff/Sneak/Snuck | To sneak a punch or an attack on someone when there not lookin. |
Spittin | 1- When an MC (rapper) starts rhyming. 2- It is when a person is flirting with a female. |
Stack chips | To make money and save it, or put it away, then go out and make more money. A term for hustlers. |
Straight | Everything is OK. An individual is OK. |
Strapped | Packing a gun. |
Tag | Writing your nick name on a wall or train. |
Tax | Forcibly take your money like the government. To rob. |
Thorough | When something is cool, good , or safe it's thorough. |
Toy Cop | Security guards who act like there real cops. |
True Dat | Means that is true. |
Twisted | Don't get it wrong, or don't get me wrong. Don't mess around. |
Up North | A prison North of NYC. Clinton Correctional Facility. |
Uptown | The upper parts of Manhattan. Anything above 100st. Harlem, Spanish Harlem and upwards. |
Up/Get up | A writers (graffiti) main goal is to gain fame. To get up, is to gain fame by bombing the system (trains, walls, busses) with as many tags and throw ups. |
Vic | Short for victim. A stick up kid (robber) term for a potential victim. |
Wack | Not good, terrible. Referring to someone's skills, clothes, situations. |
Wax | 1- An LP or record. A DJ term for records. 2- Means to keep it cool |
Whip | 1- a nice looking expensive car. |
Wreck/Wreck Shop | To accomplish or destroy. |
Xerox | To Copy |
Youngin | A young person |
Zootie/Zooted/Zootie Bang | High on angel dust, PCP. |
22 | 22 caliber gun |
24/ 7 | 24 hours 7 days a week. Meaning your doing something all day and all night. |
38 | 38 caliber gun |
40 | 40 ounce of beer |
44 | 44 caliber gun |
411/What's the 411 | Imformation, gossip, rummors. Stems from telephone information servcice. |
808 | Roland 808 drum machin sounds. Refering to one particular bass beat sound made popular in early 80's NYC Hip Hop, now used in most Dirty South music as well as Miami Bass music. |
No half steppin | Don't half step, don't half fast. Put 100 % into your efforts not 50%. |
Catch this fade | When you wanna fight |
Ginsu | Knife |
C4 | C-4 (explosive) |
RDX | RDX, an initialism for Research Department explosive,[2] is an explosive nitroamine widely used in military and industrial applications. It was developed as an explosive which was more powerful than TNT, and it saw wide use in World War II. |
Marquise | A diamond; Marquise cut diamonds are very sparkly. |
AMC Pacer | Ugly car. |
Ford Excursion | Ugly car 2. |
Toe tag | 1. A method of identification of bodies in a morgue. A label on string tied to a deceased persons toe with their name and other information on it. Anklebands (like the wristbands you get when you visit a hospital) are now more common. 2. (Slang) To kill somebody. |
Maafa | Maafa (or African Holocaust, Holocaust of Enslavement, or Black holocaust as alternatives) are terms used to describe the history and ongoing effects of atrocities inflicted on African people. |
Echelon | "Echelon" is a level of rank, achievement or reputation. |
Ted DiBiase | He was a wrestler. He was called the "Million Dollar Man", a millionaire who wore a gold-studded, dollar-sign-covered suit. |
Cheeba & Ganja | Marijuana |
Strong Island | Nickname of Long Island |
Sheepskin | It is a jacket that were popular in East Coast cities in the '70s and '80s. |
New York Hot Tracks | It is another classic NYC throwback. It was a television show guest hosted by The Beastie Boys and Run DMC, among others. It was cancelled in 1989. |
Mr. Magic | John Rivas, was a prominent hip hop radio DJ. |
Nu Nile | Nu Nile is a hair product that made African-textured hair look really slick back in the day. |
Stush | Conceited, superior, having an air of rude hauteur particularly with regard to personal appearance - but with good reason. |