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bullet past through my lung"_ -- Cypress Hill (Lick a Shot
[1993])
_38_
1) (n) 38 caliber pistol. _"38 still shootin' real straight"_
-- Cypress Hill (Make a Move[1995])
2) (n) _"38 hot"_ means very angry.
_187_
(n) Californian penal code number for homicide. The police in
California uses the penal code numbers as shorthand on the
radio. Eg. in Oregon the code for homicide is _"163.005"_,
different from California. _"LA-14 in pursuit of two immigrant
suspects armed on 187"_ -- Cypress Hill (Locotes[1995]).
_380_
(n) A handgun.
_4 pound_
(n) 45 caliber (1 caliber = 1/100th inch) gun.
_40_
(n) A 40-ounce bottle of malt liquor. _"Get your 40 and your
blunt and your Glock and your bulletproof vest"_
-- Cypress Hill (Boom Biddy Bye Bye [1995]).
_9, 9mm_
(n) 9 mm gun. _"As I pull the trigger on my nine"_ -- Cypress
Hill (Boom Biddy Bye Bye[1995])
- A -
_afro_
1) (n) Hairstyle like the Jackson Five had, much hair and
round like a ball.
2) (n) Person with an afro.
_AK/AK-47_
(n) Assault rifle of Russian origin, nowadays produced in
China. The letters stand for Alexander Kalashnikov, who
invented the gun in World War II. _"Wanna get that punk with
my AK"_ -- Cypress Hill (Lick a Shot[1993])
- B -
_bang_
1) (v) To fight to kill. _"Flash back on the skills when I
used to bang"_ -- Cypress Hill (Lick a Shot[1993])
_beef_
(n) And argument or discrepancy with another individual or
group of individuals. The following citation is from the book
Juba to Jive: the dictionary of African-American slang, by
Clarence Major. Beef n. (1930s-1940s; 1960s-1970s) an _"old"_
word dating back to general criminal use in the thirties. For
young black in the sixties and later it meant roughly the same
as it had earlier: a complaint or argument; a disagreement in
progress. _"Well if ya' got beef son, tellia tella vocta"_
-- Cypress Hill (Boom Biddy Bye Bye[1996] (featuring Fugees))
_bitch_
1) (n) Prostitute; girls call each other _"What's up, bitch?"_
Doesn't necessarily have to be negative. Doesn't have to mean
females either. _"Bitch niggas can hide, But I'll find they
ass some day"_ -- Cypress Hill (Stoned Raiders[1995])
2) (v) To curse or nag about something.
_bite_
1) (v) To copy lyrics from other people. _"How many ways will
you bite my shit?"_ -- Cypress Hill (No Rest For The Wicked
[1995])
2) (v) To steal
_blast_
1) (v) To smoke crack.
2) To kill someone. _"Didn't have to blast him but I did
anyway"_ -- Cypress Hill (How Could I Just Kill a Man[1991])
_blend_
(n) See marihuana.
_blunt_
(n) See marihuana. Marijuana cigarette, herb stuffed cigar,
generally phillies. _"Left hand on a forty, puffin' on a
blunt"_ -- Cypress Hill (Hand on the Pump[1991])
_blunted_
(v) Under influence of a blunt. _"Take a lot of mental for the
blunted to chill with"_ -- Cypress Hill (Hand on the Pump
[1993])
_boat_
(n) Marijuana laced with embalming fluid.
_bone_
1) (v) To have sexual intercourse. _"She wanted me ta bone
her"_ -- Cypress Hill (Stoned is the Way of the Walk[1991])
2) (n) Penis.
3) (n) One dollar.
4) (n) Core, soul.
5) (v) To bone out, as in leaving.
6) (n) A joint.
_bong_
(n) A waterpipe for smoking marijuana. The marijuana is
filtered through the water. When you suck it decreases the
pressure in the chamber so the smoke get pulled through the
water so it looks like it boiling. It is good because it
filters out some of the bad stuff like tar. It also cools the
smoke to make it less harsh. _"Let's smoke that bowl, hit the
bong"_ -- Cypress Hill (Hits from the Bong[1993])
_boo-yaa_
1) (n) Totally dope, incredibly fine. Probably orignated from
the _"Boo-yaa Tribe"_.
2) (n) Impression of the sound of a shotgun. _"shotgun goes
boo-ya"_ -- Cypress Hill (Hand on the pump[1993]).
3) (n) Marijuana, probably derived from Buddha.
4) (n) Crack, probably related from the fact that smoking
crack is sort of equivalent to putting a shotgun to your
head and pulling the trigger.
_bounce_
1) (v) To leave, to get up, to break.
2) (n) Form of music from New Orleans.
3) (n) A reference to the Banhead Bounce, a dance made famous
in Atlanta rap music.
_boy_
(n) Friend, possibly short for homeboy. That's my boy.
_break off_
(v) Marijuana is sometimes sold as little blocks. So, breaking
off some means to share the good stuff with others. _"I'll hit
dat bond and break ya off something soon"_ -- Cypress Hill
(Insane in the Brain [1993]).
_brother_
(n) Man of the same group; friend. In the Bible you will read
_"brethern"_, which is used in the same meaning. _"But it's
obvious, isn't it my brother?"_ -- Cypress Hill (Make a Move
[1995])
_bucket_
(n) Old car in bad shape. _"I'm out here risking my dome, Just
for a bucket or a fast ducat"_ -- Cypress Hill (How Could I
Just Kill a Man[1991])
_buddah_
(n) See marihuana. _"I be smokein' this, indo-blazin',
funk buddha"_ -- Cypress Hill (Spark Another Owl[1995]).
_bust this_
(interj) Pay attention.
- C -
_-cha_
You. _"When I see ya punk ass, I'm gonna getcha"_ -- Cypress
Hill (Hand on the Pump[1993])
_cheeba_
1) (n) See marihuana. Company inscriptions on pharmaceutical
drugs read "ciba", pronounced "cheeba".
2) (n) Black, sticky, gooey Brazilian marijuana often sold in
pounds.
_chill_
1) (n) Relax. _"'Cause I'm the chill one, know to get ill
one"_ -- Cypress Hill (Hand on the Pump[1993]).
2) (adj) Mellow.
_chronic_
(n) See marihuana. Incredibly potent marihuana, it started out
as weed laced with coke. _"To my gatt to my money and I'm
hooked on chronic"_ -- Cypress Hill (Spark Another Owl[1995])
_claim_
1) (v) To say one allies oneself with a gang or set.
2) (v) To claim membership in a gang. _"Betta be the same set
I'm claimin"_ -- Cypress Hill (Throw your Set up in the Air
[1995])
3) (v) To say something that is not necessarily true.
_clip_
(n) Gun or holder of bullets to load a gun with. _"I'm the one
flippin', Keepin' the clip on my hip..."_ -- Cypress Hill
(Lick a Shot[1993])
_cock_
1) (n) Penis.
2) (n) Vagina.
3) (v) To pull the hammer of a gun. _"Cock the hammer, it's
time for action"_ -- Cypress Hill (Cock the hammer[1993])
_crazy_
1) (adj) Besides meaning insane or extremely daring, it is kind
of synonymous with mad. _"Who you tryin' to get crazy with
ese?"_ -- Cypress Hill (Insane in the Brain[1993])
2) (adj) Extremely or very.
_crew_
(n) Group, band. _"When I roll with my crew, I bet ya One-Time
can't find my hoota!"_ -- Cypress Hill (I ain' goin' out like
that[1993])
- D -
_dime_
1) (n) Ten dolar bag of marihuana. Due to price variations the
price may actually be higher for the same bag. _"First it
started with the nickel, then the dime, then the twenty,
spendin' up all my money"_ -- Cypress Hill (Spark Another Owl
[1995])
2) (n) "To drop a dime", to fink. The term has probably
descended from the time when phone calls were 10 cents, and is
related to the notion of moving gossip quickly, as one would
drop a dime into the phone to make a call.
3) (n) Ten as in a rating on a woman's beauty.
_dog_
1) (v) To tear something up like a dog would do.
2) (v) To insult someone in front of his friends.
3) (v) To have sex the doggy way.
4) (p) a form of addressing: "What's up dog?", not meant to
be offensive
5) (n) a friend, "That's my Dog".
_dome_
(n) A person's big head, skull, gun against your head. _"I put
my glock to your dome and you started to cry"_ -- Cypress Hill
(Boom Biddy Bye Bye[1995])
_dope_
1) (n) Narcotics. _"They say you're dope, Clef you're dope
so they offa me sess"_ -- Cypress Hill (Boom Biddy Bye Bye
[1996] (featuring Fugees))
2) (adj) Great, addictive.
_duckets_
(n) Money, from _"ducats"_: coins.
- E -
_ese_
(n) Spanish word for homeboy. _"Let's kick it ese"_ -- Cypress
Hill (I ain't goin' out like that[1993])
_elbow_
(n) From the abbreviation for pound (Lb.), usually referring
to a pound of marijuana.
_"Now I roll with an elbow"_ -- Cypress Hill (Spark Another
Owl[1995])
- F -
_fade_
1) (n) The hairdo (see high top fade).
2) (v) Means to not listen to, erase, or get rid of (kill).
Has mutated into various other meanings as well as has most
other hiphop lingo. It (the phrase) started from actually
pulling down the fader on a mixer, which of course, results
in not listening to whomever was on at the time. _"Bring your
cell-phone cause I fade them all"_ -- Cypress Hill (Make a
Move[1995])
3) (n) Term from from the dice-game craps, related to losing.
_finger on the trigger_
(n) Someone prepared to shoot if necessary. _"Get ya hands out
ya pockets and your finga on the trigga"_ -- Cypress Hill
(Throw your Set in the Air[1995])
_freak_
1) (v) Dance in a provocative way.
2) (v) Have sex.
3) (n) Person who practices the above things; sexually
aggressive female (never missing a beat).
_fuck_
(n,v) This is the most powerful word in the American English
language. It can be the very best or the very worst. You might
enjoy getting your brains fucked out, but then again you might
not.
_funk_
1) (adj) Malodorous.
2) (n) The essence of being, as in faking the funk.
- G -
_G_
1) (n) Anything that starts with a G. E.g. God, Gangsta, Girl,
Guy. As in "Whatup, G?". _"Pigs often site me, that's not
polite G"_ -- Cypress Hill (Pigs[1991])
2) (v) To have sexual intercourse.
3) (n) Money, from Grands or thousands.
_gat_
1) (n) A very small, easily concealed gun used by government
spies and, of course, gangsters. It originates from Gatling,
the name of the man who invented the machine gun (the Gatling
gun). _"Grab my gat, and load up the steel"_ -- Cypress Hill
(I ain't goin' out like that[1993])
_gauge_
(n) A shotgun. _"But I ain't fuckin' 'roun with the gauge or a
rope"_ -- Cypress Hill (Illusions[1995]).
_get busy_
1) (v) Have sex. _"Born to get busy"_ -- Cypress Hill (Born to
get busy[1991])
2) (v) to eat.
_Glock_
(n) Manufacturer of guns. People usually mean the 9mm glock,
which can hold up to 20 rounds, plus one in the chamber. With
an extended clip they can hold up to 33 rounds. Most of the
Glock is made of steel, but it is wrapped in a plastic cover,
giving the gun a futuristic feel to it. _"I'll pull out my
plastic, glock automatic..."_ -- Cypress Hill (I ain't goin'
out like that[1993])
_grill_
1) _"Guard your grill"_: protect yourself, _grill"_ stands for
your teeth, protect your face from getting punched. _"I'll
bust that grill"_ -- Cypress Hill (I ain't goin' out like
that[1993])
2) Front of a car.
_grip_
1) (n) Ability on the microphone.
2) (n) Money.
3) (n) Gun. _"My grip surrounded I'm about ta get rushed"_
-- Cypress Hill (When the Shit Goes Down[1993])
- H -
_hard_
1) (adv) Tough.
2) (adv) Erected. _"On my dick so hard, now ya wanna suck
it!"_ -- Cypress Hill (No Rest for the Wicked[1995]).
_hawk_
1) (v) To look at something.
2) (v) To stare down someone. _"I'm a chicken-hawk, huntin'
for a chicken"_ -- Cypress Hill (Cock the Hammer[1993])
3) (n) The wind, especially when it is blowing hard.
_[to be] high_
To be intoxicated by a drug of somekind. Reported other terms
for it are: blazed, blunted, bombed, charged, juiced, skunked,
stressed, toked. _"I want to get high, so high"_ -- Cypress
Hill (I wanna get high [1993]).
_hole_
1) (n) Vagina.
2) (n) Gun chamber.
_homeboy_
(n) Close friend. _"This pig he killed my homeboy"_
-- Cypress Hill (Pigs[1991])
_hoodlum_
(n) A criminal; drugdealer, car thief, stick up kid. _"Comin'
out da slums, It's da hoodlums"_ -- Cypress Hill (I ain't
goin' out like that[1993])
_hook_
(n) A hook, used in load of songs, is an aspect of popular or
commercial music that _"grabs"_ people and makes it easy to
like or remember the song. For example, the riff from
_"Son of a Preacher Man"_ used in Cypress Hill's _"Hits from
the Bong"_ [1993] is an example of a hook.
_hoota_
(n) Blunt. _"I bet ya One-Time can't find my hoota!"_
-- Cypress Hill (I ain't goin' out like that[1993])
_hottie_
(n) A very attractive female. _"On the loose in the city
lookin at the ho with the big titties"_ -- Cypress Hill
(Illusions[1995])
_humming_
(v) Coming at someone. _"Hummin' coming at ya!"_ -- Cypress
Hill (How Could I Just Kill a Man[1991])
- I -
_ice_
1) (n) Diamonds or jewelry with diamonds in it.
2) (n) On ice - at the morgue.
3) (n) Ice or ice cream: drugs, or cocaine in particular.
_"Just like Cheech and Chong frontin' with Ice Cream"_
-- Cypress Hill (Stoned is the Way of the Walk[1991])
_ill_
1) (v) To be obnoxious, or to act weird, as in eating dogfood.
_"'Cause I'm the chill one, know to get ill one"_ -- Cypress
Hill (Hand on the Pump[1991])
2) (adj) Negative.
3) (adj) Positive.
_Indo_
(n) Marijuana from Indonesia. _"Let me see ya fat indo sack"_
-- Cypress Hill (Spark Another Owl[1995])
- J -
_Jones_
(n) A craving for something. It is said to come from Jones
Alley in Manhattan where junkies used to live.
E.g.: _"Baseball Jones"_: needing baseball, _"love Jones"_: a
dire craving for someone, _"Jonesing for some MJ"_: wanting
some marihuana. _"Jones house, cough without the bones"_
-- Cypress Hill (Cock the Hammer[1993])
- L -
_'lac_
(n) Short for Cadillac. _"Rollin' around with my use 'lac"_
-- Cypress Hill (When the Shit Goes Down[1993])
_loco_
1) (n) Term used for local person.
2) (n) Crazy one, from the Spanish _"loco"_, often used for
friends or locals in a positive way. _"Don't you know I'm
loco?"_ -- Cypress (Insane in the brain [1993]) Hill (Insane
in the brain [1993])
3) (n) Lock or locks, as in Jheri-curls, but always pronounced
with the long o as in _"go"_.
4) (v) To _"go loc"_ means to get ready for a drive-by or to
shoot someone. This means putting on dark glasses, skullies,
caps and generally getting hard to identify.
- M -
_marihuana_
(n) Dried leaves and flowering tops of the pistillate hemp
plant that are smoked in cigarettes for their intoxicating
effect. Other reported words for it are: bammer, bionic, blow,
bomb, brown, bud, buddha, cannabis, cheeba, chronic, dank,
doubage, ganja, grass, green, groove weed, hash, herb,
home-grown, ill, Indo, iszm, Lebanon, Mary Jane (mj), maui
wowy, pot, sess, shake, shit, skunk, stress, tabacci, Thai,
wacky and weed. _"And get weeded, somebody, everybody need it,
Marihuana, Marihuana, do ya wanna?"_ -- Cypress Hill (Spark
Another Owl[1995])
_MC_
(n) Probably Jamaican, in which case it comes from the TV game
shows, Master of Ceremonies (although the term existed before
TV). Could also stand for Microphone Controller, Mic Checka.
_"Full out search for the body of the MCs who be comin' to
disrupt the party"_ -- Cypress Hill (Killa Hill Niggas[1995])
_motherfucker_
1) (n) Respectless person with no attitude. _"A motherfucking
pig that don't fly straight!"_ -- Cypress Hill (No Rest for
the Wicked[1995])
2) (n) Also used to express a form of respect for someone.
- N -
_nickel_
1) (n) Five, as in 1995.
2) (n) A piece of money.
3) (n) Five dolar bag of marihuana. _"First it started with
the nickel, then the dime, then the twenty, spendin' up all
my money"_ -- Cypress Hill (Spark Another Owl[1995])
_nigga_
(n) Curseword used originally by white people, taken over by
black people as a name to show their proudness, and take off
the edge; positive: _"my nigga"_: my friend. _"Lench Mob is a
friend of mine, But you talk about them niggaz from behind"_
-- Cypress Hill (No Rest For The Wicked[1995])
_nina_
1) (n) [neenyah] Spanish for girl of 5 years or less. Chica is
a teenage girl.
2) (n) [neenah] 9mm. Mixture of correct Spanish pronounciation
of the i and NYC or Southern dialect ponounciation of the
final -er as -ah of the word _"niner"_. _"When I'm throwing
up a set I got my nina millimeter"_ -- Cypress Hill (Throw
your Set up in the Air[1995])
_nine_
(n) 9 mm gun. _"As I pull the trigger on my nine"_ -- Cypress
Hill (Boom Biddy Bye Bye[1995])
- O -
_O_
(n) An ounce of marijuana. _"Catch a O, and another O, merry
christmas"_ -- Cypress Hill (I wanna get High[1991])
_O'Malley_
(n) An Irish name, pointing to the traditionally strong
represented Irish in the LAPD. _"Gonna put a slug in captain
O'Malley"_ -- Cypress Hill (I ain't goin' out like that[1993])
_one-time_
(n) Police officer. _"One-time tried to come in my home..."_
-- Cypress Hill (How Could I Just Kill a Man[1993]).
_Oshea_
(n) Oshea Jackson - Ice Cube's real name _"Don't trust that
nigga named Oshea..."_ -- Cypress Hill (No Rest for the
Wicked[1993]).
_owl_
(n) Spark another blunt, another weed. _"Do you wanna spark
another owl?"_ -- Cypress Hill (Spark Another Owl[1995]).
- P -
_phat_
1) (adj) Great, addictive.
2) (adj) If a girl was phat, she had Plenty o' Hips And
Thighs, in other words PHysically ATtractive; old slang.
Think 60's or early 70's here. A bit more modern: Pussy,
Hips And Tits.
_phat pocket_
(n) A person who has a lot of money _"Livin' on phat pockets"_
-- Cypress Hill (When the Shit Goes Down[1993])
_pig_
(n) Police officer. _"pig"_ as a synonym for _policeman"_ has
been around for about two hundred years (according to
_"Partridge's Concise Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional
English"_). It did, however, disappear in the late nineteenth
century (or, as the dictionary says _"go underground"_ though
I'm not sure what they mean by that) and reappear in common
usage around 1960. I know that during Prohibition speakeasies
who had bribed the local police to not bother them were called
_"blind pigs"_ (The Blind Pig bar here in Ann Arbor actually
used to be such a place). I suspect that the term has been
used to mean any kind of unpleasant person since humans
started domesticating the things.... _"This pig harassed the
whole neighborhood, well this pig work at the station"_
-- Cypress Hill (Pigs[1991])
_pot_
(n) See marihuana. _"Must have been drinking, 'cause this
ain't pot"_ -- Cypress Hill and Sonic Youth (I Love You Mary
Jane[1993]).
_pump_
(n) Pump of a pump-action shotgun _"Sawed off shotgun, hand on
the pump"_ -- Cypress Hill (Hand on the pump[1993])
_punk_
(n) A stupid, usually irritating person. _"Didn't have to
blast him but I did anyway, that young punk had to pay!"_
-- Cypress Hill (How Could I Just Kill A Man[1991])
_pussy_
(n) Vagina. _"This pig he'Ms a fuckin' fag, So all his
homepigs they call him a pussy"_ -- Cypress Hill (Pigs[1991])
_puta/puto_
1) (n) Prostitute.
2) (n) Asshole. _"How you like me now, puto"_ -- Cypress Hill
(Locotes[1995]).
- R -
_Rodney King_
1) (n) Rodney King was beaten up by police when he was placed
under arrest. The whole incident was videotaped, leading to
the infamous _"Rodney King trials"_, where the police officers
were under trial for assault and battering. The outcome of the
trial was not satisfactory to many people in LA, leading to
the LA riots of 1992.
2) (n) To pull a Rodney King: To initiate police brutality.
_"Harassed by a pig real fast, They wanna Rodney King me"_
-- Cypress Hill (Stoned is the Way of the Walk[1991])
_roll_
1) (v) To hang with a given person or crowd.
2) (v) To roll someone means to beat someone up.
3) (v) To deal drugs. _"Yes I smoke shit, straight off the
roach clip, I roll shit..."_ -- Cypress Hill (I wanna get
High[1993])
4) (v) To drive one's car in the neighborhood.
- S -
_scheme_
(v) To plan to do something to get someones money, most often
by cheating. _"Cookin' up a scheme for all them big bad
niggas"_ -- Cypress Hill (Killa Hill Niggas[1995])
_Scooby Doo_
1) (n) The cartoon character.
2) (n) A blunt. _"Scooby Doo, an' fucked down too"_ -- Cypress
Hill (Lick a Shot[1993]).
3) The B-side on Lick a Shot (US).
_set_
1) (n) A denomination of one of the larger gangs, a set is not
necessarily friendly with other sets in the same gang. _"When
I'm a throwing up a set I got my nina millimeter"_ -- Cypress
Hill (Throw your Set up in the Air[1995])
2) (n) The group of songs in a concert by a specific performer.
_skunk_
(n) See marihuana. _"Lookin for the skunk that's what'cha
want"_ -- Cypress Hill (Funk Freakers[1995])
_skill_
(n) General ability; ability on the microphone.
_slang_
(v) The act of selling drugs. _"When I hang with Stoned and
I kick that phunky slang"_ -- Cypress Hill (Real Thing[1993]
(with Pearl Jam))
_sprung_
1) (adj) Erected.
2) (adj) Obsessed with something.
3) (n) Released on bail by someone else.
_squeeze the trigger_
(v) To shoot a gun. _"Ease back, ease back or I squeeze up on
the trigga"_ -- Cypress Hill (Killa Hill Niggas[1995])
_steel_
(n) Pistol. _"Finger on the trigger with my hand upon the
steel"_ -- Cypress Hill (Hand on the pump[1993])
_straight_
(n) Okay. _"A motherfucking pig that don't fly straight!"_
-- Cypress Hill (No Rest For The Wicked[1995])
_stroll_
1) (v) To be out on parole.
2) To drive one's car.
- T -
_tight_
1) (adj) A state of mind, feeling really good at the moment.
Straight, legitimate, all-good.
2) (adj) Cool, dope, fresh. _"...and you know it's rolled
tightly"_ -- Cypress Hill (Stoned is the Way of the Walk
[1991])
_twisted_
(n) Drunk.
- W -
_weed_
(n) See marihuana.
_wet_
1) (v) Kill someone. As in wet from blood when someone is
sprayed. _"Wouldja wet me or start throwing up a set?"_
-- Cypress Hill (No Rest For The Wicked[1995])
2) (v) Excite a female.
_wreck_
1) (v) To accomplish something. _"Don't make me wreck shit
hectic"_ -- Cypress Hill (Insane in the Brain[1993])
2) (v) To destroy or break up.
3) (v) To show great freestyling skills.
- Y -
_y'all_
(n) Short for _"you all"_. Also sometimes used for _you"_,
singular. _"Hits from the bong y'all"_ -- Cypress Hill (Hits
from the bong[1993])
_ya_
1) (n) You. _"Would ya be down like a soldier"_ -- Cypress
Hill (Throw your Set up in the Air[1995])
2) (pos) Your.
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