Jan 5, 2016 · Dope is a rather new slang word that is used to define someone or something excellent, great, impressive. OED says that it is originally in African-American usage and chiefly among rap …

Sep 8, 2017 · Dope in the sense of information, particularly information that isn’t widely known or easily obtained, came directly from this practice. A whisper from the stables or some confederate telling a …

Jul 11, 2018 · Fire as a slang adjective appears to be the bleeding-edge version of "cool." To some extent, the word appears to be interchangeable with dope. One thing that seems odd to me is that it …

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 different kind …

Jun 1, 2016 · Rope-a-dope is a strategy Mohammed Ali (boxer) used to outfox his opponent, George Foreman, in a match called the Rumble in The Jungle. He pretended to be beaten, falling on the …

Dalzell notes that in the hiphop slang of the same era, dip (along with dap and dope) could also mean "Good with a fashionable twist," The term dip then crossed over into white/interracial U.S. youth …

Jul 25, 2024 · Instances of "shoot the bull [con]" appear as early as 1906. From " Dope of the Day," in the Minneapolis [Minnesota] Journal (August 25, 1906): Is it loyalty to the club that represents their …

Apr 14, 2025 · From Word Net Search: Boob Noun S: (n) dumbbell, dummy, dope, boob, booby, pinhead (an ignorant or foolish person) S: (n) breast, bosom, knocker, boob, tit, titty (either of two …

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 …

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 …