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产辞辞濒颈苍鈥�
or boolin [bool-n]
What does 产辞辞濒颈苍鈥� mean?
B辞辞濒颈苍鈥� means 鈥渉anging out鈥� or 鈥渃hilling.鈥� It comes from gang culture.
Where does 产辞辞濒颈苍鈥� come from?
The Bloods are a gang that formed in Los Angeles in the 1970s as a rival to the Crips. As a show of disrespect and in-group code, some Bloods replace the letter C (the first letter of Crips) with a B in speech and writing. For instance, a Blood may change chocolate chip cookie to bhocolate bhip bookie.
Using this formula, 产辞辞濒颈苍鈥� substitutes the B in c辞辞濒颈苍鈥� (a variation on 肠丑颈濒濒颈苍鈥�, which means 鈥渉anging out鈥� or 鈥渞elaxing鈥�). On his 2014 track 鈥淥ld English,鈥� for example, rapper Young Thug sings: 鈥淐atch me 产辞辞濒颈苍鈥� with them slimes, them my youngins鈥� (slimes is a slang term for 鈥渇riend鈥�).
Urban Dictionary鈥檚 first entry for 产辞辞濒颈苍鈥� is from 2005. The earliest public mention of the word on Twitter was in 2008. Apart from some spikes in 2004, search interest in the word really took off between 2015 and 2016. Compton-based鈥攐r rather, 鈥淏ompton-based鈥濃�攔apper YG released an album in 2015, Still Brazy, whose title features the Bloods鈥� letter swapping. On the album, YG replaces hundreds of other C鈥檚 for B鈥檚, including in the middle of words, as shown in a verse like 鈥淚 can鈥檛 sleep at night this shit unbomfortable.鈥�
Examples of 产辞辞濒颈苍鈥�
Who uses 产辞辞濒颈苍鈥�?
While 产辞辞濒颈苍鈥� started out as a term to identify or ally oneself with the Bloods in their slang, it started to extend beyond gang contexts in 2015鈥�16 and take on news meanings, including 鈥渢o be extremely high,鈥� 鈥渢o act silly or ridiculous (as if high),鈥� or 鈥渢o do something unabashedly.鈥� In these senses, boolin鈥� is used in expressions like straight 产辞辞濒颈苍鈥� and 产辞辞濒颈苍鈥� on Mars. The latter is sometimes intensified as straight 产辞辞濒颈苍鈥� on Mars, which is used in a number of memes.
B辞辞濒颈苍鈥� is also used in two other phrases. The first, and most often mocked or misunderstood, is 产辞辞濒颈苍鈥� in the but, which uses Bloods鈥� letter replacements for 肠丑颈濒濒颈苍鈥� in the cut, or 鈥渉anging out in one鈥檚 house or driving around in one鈥檚 car.鈥� Another is 产辞辞濒颈苍鈥� at the bando, where bando is slang for an 鈥渁bandoned house, typically where drugs are sold.鈥�
Given its gang culture history, 产辞辞濒颈苍鈥� and other B-replaced words are sometimes used to denigrate African Americans. It鈥檚 been also appropriated by non-Bloods members who may not be aware of its gang-related roots.
B辞辞濒颈苍鈥� is sometimes shortened to bool, for 鈥渃ool.鈥�
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