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One slang term which is used by young people in my community rather often is “opp.”. It is clearly derived from the stem “oppose,” and is basically short for opposition or opponent. Generally, this term, which is often pluralized as “opps,” refers to people with whom one is not on good terms. They are people you have beef with ...
Whereas "off" is more unconscious, an autonomic reaction, usually to a physical stimulus, like being hit in the stomach, or dropping a brick on your foot (other times, empathetically, for someone else, sometimes of that, metaphorically)... "Oof" is what you say when someone punches you in the stomach. Literally or figuratively.
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1) Based on Random House Dictionary: Slang. a federal official or law-enforcement officer . 2) Collins English Dictionary: (US, slang) an agent of the FBI . 3) Online Etymology Dictionary: as colloquial for official of the federal government, from 1916, especially, after 1930s, of FBI agents
Jonathon Green, Chambers Dictionary of Slang (2008) offers a series of meanings for pip as U.S. slang, and conveniently includes approximate dates of first known occurrence for each meaning: pip n. {abbr[eviation of] PIPPIN n.
I believe this meaning is slang and probably dates from the early 90s or slightly before. Earliest "is hosed" I found with the meaning was from 1992, most 1994 or later. One instance, possibly related, was a rock climber being "hosed" (italics and quotes in original) in 1991, meaning wholly sore after a day of climbing. –
A similar meaning can be found in this Jamaican Slang Glossary: Ends- A place. Mi a go pon one ends still. (I am going to one place). And in Backayard Magazine's patois guide: ends, colloq. home, familiar place. Another Urban Dictionary definition includes both London and Jamaican meanings: Jamaican word for street corner London word for dodgy area
Slag was recorded meaning a cowardly or treacherous or villainous man first in the late 18th century; Grose's entry proves it was in common use in 1785. Slag meaning a female prostitute seems to have first developed much later - around the 1950s - and its more general application to loose girls or women is later still, 1960s probably at soonest.
It's a new and not yet widespread slang usage. So OP shouldn't get too hung up on the exact definition, since it's not fully crystalised. The "self-referential" meaning presumably arose from the metadata beloved of techies, but this is also a typical usage, where it simply means "ironic". –
10. Etymonline suggests that it rose from a use of Jones as slang for heroin: The slang sense "intense desire, addiction" probably arose from earlier use of Jones as a synonym for "heroin," presumably from the proper name, but the connection, if any, is obscure. Share. Improve this answer.