Jan 2, 2016 · According to OED, lit (slang. Drunk Freq. const. up.) is from 1914: Lit up, intoxicated. ‘High Jinks, Jr.’ Choice Slang 14 From 1933, it refers to someone under the influence of a drug: When one has contracted the habit or is under the immediate influence of the drug, he is all lit up. American speech (American Dialect Society) In 1971, it also appears in Eugene E. Landy's The underground ...

Jul 11, 2018 · It appears that the related terms lit and fire developed their current slang connotations of hot, cool, excellent during the ‘90s. The use of the fire emoji in text messages probably contributed to their diffusion.

Mar 23, 2024 · The first citation in print with the meaning "to shoot, destroy with gunfire" is from 1967, in Puerto Rican writer Piri Thomas's Down These Mean Streets: You’d smack him down like Whiplash does in the cowboy flick or really light him up like Scarface in that gangster picture — swoon, crack, bang, bang, bang, short-nose, snub-nose pistol, and a machine gun, and a poor fuckin’ loudmouth is ...

Jan 19, 2019 · The following discussion is from my AmE experience and Green's Dictionary of Slang The only distinctions I sense between turnt and lit: lit, adj.: wide-spectrum term of approval, used of events, objects, individuals. ( a second sense - more recent) and seems to be unconfined to describing inebriation/ celebration.

Sep 2, 2014 · The form lil is used, but the most common variant seems to be lil' (capitalized when it is a name). Wikipedia "Lil" is a kind of prefix and is the short form of "little". It is often spelled with an apostrophe as "Lil'" or "Li'l". When used as a prefix in comic or animation it can refer to a specific style of drawing where the characters appear …

Feb 25, 2016 · The formally intransitive multi-word verb 'light up' is very-informal-to-slang, certainly used in the UK, for 'light one's cigarette / cigar ...'. It is a disguised transitive usage, as opposed to 'light/lights/lit... up' in say 'the screen lit up'. The type of DO appearing here is seen in 'light a beacon / lamp ...', but is semantically subtly different from 'fire' in 'light a fire' (the ...

Oct 10, 2013 · I'mma is a slang contraction of I'm gonna. It's common in some dialects; others use it only in an affected manner similar to lolspeak. It's good to know what it means, but I would only recommend adopting it yourself if you're quite comfortable with using slang and know when it's …

A comment in “What is a feminine version of guys?” got me wondering: how derogatory is the use of chicks to refer to women (either in general, or to a specific group). To me (I'm a man), it was quite

I see and hear two general slang usages of cool - one meaning great (illustrated by a and b below), and one meaning acceptable/okay (illustrated by c and d). The following are Dictionary.com's four (

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. Dubstep has since become popular ...