slang - What is the etymology of "dope" meaning excellent, great ...
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 …
Etymology: Dope - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
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: …
What do you call slapping someone at the back of their head
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 …
etymology - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
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 …
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 …
What does the phrase "Does the Pope sh** in the woods?" mean?
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?
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 …
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 …
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, …
“John Doe”, “Jane Doe” - Why are they used many times?
Apr 12, 2017 · 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 …