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Hokum is a particular song type of American blues music—a song which uses extended analogies or euphemistic terms to make humorous, [1] sexual innuendos. This trope goes back to early dirty blues recordings, enjoyed huge commercial success in the 1920s and 1930s, [ 1 ] and is used from time to time in modern American blues and blues rock .
The term w00t (spelled with double-zero, "00"), or woot, [1] is a slang interjection used to express happiness or excitement, usually used in online conversation. The expression is most popular on forums, Usenet posts, multiplayer computer games (especially first-person shooters), IRC chats, and instant messages, though use in webpages of the World Wide Web is by no means uncommon.
The meaning of and inspiration for the song's lyrics have been subject to much interpretation. [9] One common interpretation is that the song was inspired by the 1971 science fiction film THX 1138, directed by George Lucas, which is set in a dystopian future wherein the emotions and desires of the human population are controlled by android police. [9]
A London alley contemporary with the song - Boundary Street 1890. The song is full of working class cockney rhyming slang and idiomatic phrasing.. The song tells the story of Bill and his wife who, with a lodger, live down an alleyway off the street (which were usually passages lined with crowded tenements), near the Old Kent Road, one of the poorest districts in London.
"Slang" [1] is a 1996 song by the English rock band Def Leppard and the title track from their album of the same name. It reached #17 on the UK Singles Chart.The song is the only one from its parent album to be played after the 1996–1997 Slang World Tour, with Def Leppard performing the song most recently during their concert residency of Las Vegas in 2019.
Around the same time the song came out, the expression "ballin' the jack" was used by railroad workers to mean "going at full speed." 'The 'Jack' was the slang name for a railroad locomotive, and balling meant going at high speed, itself derived from the ball type of railroad signal in which a high ball meant a clear line. [2]
Ratchet is a slang term in American hip hop culture that, in its original sense, [1] was a derogatory term used to refer to an uncouth woman, and may be a Louisianan dialect form of the word "wretched".
Rizz (/ ˈ r ɪ z / ⓘ) is an internet slang word defined as style, charm, or attractivenes. The phrase was made popular outside the African American community by American YouTuber and Twitch streamer Kai Cenat in mid-2021, though it was used colloquially long before.