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  2. Slay (slang) - Wikipedia

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    Slay is a slang colloquialism that possibly originated during the 1600s, but gained its current LGBT connotation in the 1970s from ball culture.Originally having a meaning similar to "that joke was killer", slay has since gained a definition meaning being impressed or term of agreement.

  3. 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 ...

  4. 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]

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

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    Both actors were members of the LGBT community, performing in a time that being gay was illegal. The show was extremely popular and boasted an audience of 9 million listeners a week.

  6. Paradise Garage - Wikipedia

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    The unique and eclectic styles of disco and dance music featured at the Garage gave rise to descriptive encompassing terms like New York house, "garage", "garage style", and "garage classic" (to describe a record that was made famous at, or associated with, the club). Although the term "garage music" (not to be confused with UK garage) does not ...

  7. 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".

  8. 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 ...

  9. 20 iconic slang words from Black Twitter that shaped pop culture

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    The term has been around in Black American communities since the 1990s, appearing as early as 1992 on "It Was a Good Day" by Ice Cube, who raps: "No flexin', didn't even look in a n----'s direction."