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  2. Cholo (subculture) - Wikipedia

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    Prayers coined the term cholo goth to describe their electronic rock sound. [23] [24] Hip-Hop artists Delinquent Habits and Control Machete have been described as representing the Cholo subculture. [1] Cholo gained even further notoriety in 2007 in the United States with the song "Lean Like a Cholo" by Down AKA Kilo.

  3. Bad Girls Club - Wikipedia

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    Quitting the job or failure to attend resulted in removal from the show. The girls were given the jobs of planning, decision making, and building cooperation. Season two was the first and only season of the Bad Girls Club to do this, and also the last to air 30-minute episodes. [8] The Bad Girls Club creed, introduced in season three, is: [9]

  4. Banjee - Wikipedia

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    Banjee (as in: "banjee boy" or "banjee girl") is a term from ball culture describing a person embodying an urban, tough swagger. The term is mostly associated with New York City and may be Nuyorican in origin. [a] [1] [b] Attitude, clothing, ethnicity, masculinity, physique, and youth are all elements of what has been called "banjee realness".

  5. How Polari, the ‘lost language’ of gay men, inspired much of ...

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    Paul Baker, author of “Polari: The Lost Language of Gay Men,” wrote that the language emerged in part from the slang lexicons of numerous stigmatized groups, which made it a popular option for ...

  6. Basic (slang) - Wikipedia

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    Before the 1980s, "airhead" was general American slang for a ditzy, clumsy or stupid person. [10] With the rise of the valley girl [11] and preppy subculture however, the term was applied to cheerleaders [12] and nouveau riche or middle class hangers-on who imitated the uptalk speech [13] and clothing of the upper class popular girls.

  7. Hella - Wikipedia

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    This article is about the word. For other uses, see Hella (disambiguation). 'Hella' as used in Northern California Hella is an American English slang term originating in and often associated with San Francisco's East Bay area in Northern California, possibly specifically emerging in the 1970s African-American vernacular of Oakland. It is used as an intensifying adverb such as in "hella bad" or ...

  8. What is 'preppy'? The old slang has a new meaning

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    A TikTok video of three young girls promoting Texas clothing boutique Dear Hannah Prep, gave their thoughts on "preppy." "It's fun and colorful," explained a girl. "Exciting and very girly," one said.

  9. How 'Gen Z Slang' Connects to Black Culture Appropriation - AOL

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    In text threads, social media comments, Instagram stories, Tik Toks and elsewhere, more people are using words like "slay," "woke," "period," "tea" and "sis" — just to name a few. While some ...