Dictionary for the White and Clueless

• Beef - unresolved issues (The Young Melph Mafia and the Blood Hound Gang have beef)
• Black – the darkest skin color (My students use this term to describe African Americans with skin that is so dark, it’s almost black. It may also be a term of pride because it suggests that there has been no white ancestry. Seal is probably the celebrity with the closest skin color, but it’s actually even darker.
• Blow – to bother someone or yell at someone (ex: Ms. Kuhne be blowin’. She been yellin’ at us and workin’ us all day.)
• Bricks – the projects (Not to be confused with “a Brick” which would be a measurement of unsold drugs)
• Brown – a skin color slightly lighter than “Black” (P. Diddy is brown)
• Brownstones – the projects
• Coolin’ – someone who is calm, unbothered, and laid back (I had some purp’ this morning. I be coolin’. I ain’t trippin’.)
• Cherry – cigar
• Click out – go crazy; become violent (Ima click out!)
• Clique - gang
• Cookie bush – little afro
• Cold - heartless (That Ms. Kuhne be cold-cold when her nerves be bad.)
• Dawg – someone who dates and flirts with multiple people but is not monogamous; a friend
• Down bad – someone who has done something to hurt or make things difficult for another person (Ms. Kuhne, you be down bad for giving us so much work!)
• Duck ass – stupid
• Flightin’ – high on marijuana (I be flightin’. Don’t blow my high.)
• Flipper – a girl who sleeps with many men (Paris Hilton’s a flipper.)
• Fly - cool (this should be obvious, but you never know)
• Gucci – good (I’m Gucci.)
• Hit - ugly (as in hideous? ex: That outfit be hit. You dress like yo' grandma.)
• Hood – an African American neighborhood; not the projects; not necessarily poor and/or violent
• Joe – cigarette (I got a pocket of Joes.)
• Jump – when a group of people or just one person attack another person (He got jumped at his bus stop. He didn’t even see it coming.)
• Lean – Cough Syrup (because it makes you “lean”)
• Lining - the crisp hair line created by a close shave and a razor
• Lurkin’ – loitering; hanging around; looking suspicious
• Messy - an adjective used to describe someone who gossips and/or stirs up rumors and fights
• Nerves be bad – irritated; impatient; stressed out (Ms. Kuhne, you’re making my nerves bad! Stop talking!)
• Old Lady – a girlfriend that you claim some sort of loyalty to; could be a wife
• Old Man – a boyfriend that you claim some sort of loyalty to; could be a husband
• Player – someone who flirts and dates but never settles down
• Poppin’ – loud, noisy and active environments (Ms. Kuhne’s 4^th block be poppin’ today!)
• Put on blast - to talk about other people's business loudly in front of others. (Man, Ms. Kuhne, why you gotta put me on blast like that?)
• Punk – gay male
• Purp’ - marijuana
• Red – a skin color lighter than “Brown” but darker than “yellow”; almost a golden color (Rihanna and Lil Wayne are red.)
• Rollin’ deep – traveling with a large number of people (We’re rollin’ deep in Ms. Kuhne’s class today. There are 18 of us!)
• Scary – someone who is scared of someone or something (Scary ass don’t even know who hit him!)
• Serenity – incense that is both legal and used as a drug much like marijuana
• Snow - crack
• Swagga – style; confidence; the way someone walks and talks
• Tracks – a strip of hair that can be glued to the scalp
• Trade – boyfriend; the boy you are currently interested in
• Trifflin’ – dirty
• Trippin’ – someone who is giving someone else a hard time; someone who is wrong; someone who is becoming agressive
• Twisteses - little nubby dreads; starter dreads
• Yurt - marijuana
• Weave – see Tracks
• Wiggaz - pills
• Wrong for that – someone who made a mistake that caused someone hurt or extra work (Ms. Kuhne you were wrong for that test.)
• Yellow – the lightest skin color (Mariah Carey and Vin Diesel are yellow.)
• Zank – sink (Put it in the zank!)