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
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
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?)
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
When and from where did guns become slang for biceps? The Straight Dope discussion of guns cited in ghoppe's answer relies to a large extent on the coverage of the word in J E Lighter, Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang (1994) Here is the complete entry for meaning 8 of gun in that reference work: gun 8 Orig Baseball a strong and accurate throwing arm; (pl ) arms; biceps
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
Where did the phrase batsh*t crazy come from? 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 points out there that Hunter S Thompson may have picked up the term in the Air Force, from which he was discharged in 1958
etymology - Why is a bathroom sometimes called a john? - English . . . The straight dope has an answer to this question printed in 1985 The origins of referring to the outhouse as "john" or "jake" evidently goes back to the 16th-century The origins of referring to the outhouse as "john" or "jake" evidently goes back to the 16th-century