Dope in the sense of information, particularly information that isn’t widely known or easily obtained, came directly from this practice The context was something like A whisper from the stables or some confederate telling a gambler which horses were being drugged was potentially worth a lot of money, so dope came to mean knowledge that drugs had been employed.
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Dope slap is the most common expression i know for striking someone in the back of the head with an open palm
This question ought to be reopened, because the current answers are basically wrong Dubstep has since become popular. I was listening to john lennon's song gimme some truth just now, and in it there's a recurring line Money for rope. i never thought about it much before, but it strikes me this has to.
Geek (see ‘word story’ notes) nerd wicked (the) dog's bollocks sick bad, badass dope in linguistics, amelioration is the upgrading or elevation of a word's meaning, as when a word with a negative sense develops a positive one Also called melioration or elevation Amelioration is less common than the opposite historical process, called. 'a pork chop in every beer' a posting from september 23, 2000, at straightdope.com titled the new and improved signature thread, which collects favorite signatures on the board, lists this as one of them
There's a pork chop in every beer
Both the straight dope commenter and ghoppe note the 1973 instance from andrews & owens as the first cited occurrence of guns in the sense of the biceps and triceps. google books has a copy of black language, but the book is available for snippet searches only, and i couldn't call up the quoted language about guns in multiple attempts. I heard this phrase in the gta san andreas game Sounds pretty offensive, nonetheless i don't really get what he meant to say