what are your favourite grime slang terms?

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h-crimm

Well-known member
one of the funniest things to me is when i'm listening to a song i've loved for ages and all of a sudden i get a little realisation of what some of the words mean, it can be quite shocking...

i'm quite a fan of ting like "what creps u bussin?" uhmmm .. "u cant draw gash" tho gash is quite an offensive one...

cotch is nice, link, aggie brehs, make ps, everyone inside,
bars, rammed, long, nizzer,

does anyone know what chaps means? as in "nice girl, nice car, chaps and a chain" from furys reply to demon on gash

gyalist, sconse, don, shotta, sket, sweet boy, bo'cat... types of people?

isnt boy a turning round of how police talk to yute on road... patronising like "are you boys being good?"
so in the RESPECT footage from risky roads they call the police boys, and call each other it too to disarm it

the way i understand youdunwannabringarmsouse is as 'bring arms out' with the out mixed up with the german aus (which means out) and part of that missing consonants ting... then its "you dont want to bring your weapons out with you to show off because i could take weapons around to your mums house and you wouldnt like that cos you actually arent a gangster at all" or 'if you can back armsouse who the fuck are you?' is something like "if youre carrying weapons youre giving the impression that youre going to back the show up with actual acts of violence, since youre not prepared to do that dont carry them in the first place" ... okay so i kno i'm reading them as far more anti weapons than they were meant :) ... then d double says "my mum will cause arms'aus"
it cant be arms house cos the always ryme it with house and that would make for pretty swag bars...
theres plenty of weapon words... zugga, brat, bora, gatt, cosh... not sure which is which...

did anyone ever work out what crazy titch is saying to DR at the peak of conflict when maxwell D is going lalalala to try and cover it up? it could be mutt as in mullato or mixed race but thats hardly offensive... and DR looks quite pissed off...
 
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captain easychord

Guest
h-crimm said:
one of the funniest things to me is when i'm listening to a song i've loved for ages and all of a sudden i get a little realisation of what some of the words mean, it can be quite shocking...

i'm quite a fan of ting like "what creps u bussin?" uhmmm .. "u cant draw gash" tho gash is quite an offensive one...

cotch is nice, link, aggie brehs, make ps, everyone inside,
bars, rammed, long, nizzer,

does anyone know what chaps means? as in "nice girl, nice car, chaps and a chain" from furys reply to demon on gash

gyalist, sconse, don, shotta, sket, sweet boy, bo'cat... types of people?

isnt boy a turning round of how police talk to yute on road... patronising like "are you boys being good?"
so in the RESPECT footage from risky roads they call the police boys, and call each other it too to disarm it

the way i understand youdunwannabringarmsouse is as 'bring arms out' with the out mixed up with the german aus (which means out) and part of that missing consonants ting... then its "you dont want to bring your weapons out with you to show off because i could take weapons around to your mums house and you wouldnt like that cos you actually arent a gangster at all" or 'if you can back armsouse who the fuck are you?' is something like "if youre carrying weapons youre giving the impression that youre going to back the show up with actual acts of violence, since youre not prepared to do that dont carry them in the first place" ... okay so i kno i'm reading them as far more anti weapons than they were meant :) ... then d double says "my mum will cause arms'aus"
it cant be arms house cos the always ryme it with house and that would make for pretty swag bars...
theres plenty of weapon words... zugga, brat, bora, gatt, cosh... not sure which is which...

did anyone ever work out what crazy titch is saying to DR at the peak of conflict when maxwell D is going lalalala to try and cover it up? it could be mutt as in mullato or mixed race but thats hardly offensive... and DR looks quite pissed off...
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part of me wants to believe he's caling dizzee a "mook" (a la 'mean streets').

CT: "You're a mook"
DR: "I'm not a mook!"
D Double E: "What's a mook?"
 
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Red Rooster

Well-known member
You don't wanna bring armshouse is correct.

Armshouse means beef basically. "the rave was bare armshouse"

"Chaps" is another word for a bracelet.
 
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simon silverdollar

Guest
h-crimm said:
one of the funniest things to me is when i'm listening to a song i've loved for ages and all of a sudden i get a little realisation of what some of the words mean, it can be quite shocking...

i'm quite a fan of ting like "what creps u bussin?" uhmmm .. "u cant draw gash" tho gash is quite an offensive one...

cotch is nice, link, aggie brehs, make ps, everyone inside,
bars, rammed, long, nizzer,

does anyone know what chaps means? as in "nice girl, nice car, chaps and a chain" from furys reply to demon on gash

gyalist, sconse, don, shotta, sket, sweet boy, bo'cat... types of people?

isnt boy a turning round of how police talk to yute on road... patronising like "are you boys being good?"
so in the RESPECT footage from risky roads they call the police boys, and call each other it too to disarm it

the way i understand youdunwannabringarmsouse is as 'bring arms out' with the out mixed up with the german aus (which means out) and part of that missing consonants ting... then its "you dont want to bring your weapons out with you to show off because i could take weapons around to your mums house and you wouldnt like that cos you actually arent a gangster at all" or 'if you can back armsouse who the fuck are you?' is something like "if youre carrying weapons youre giving the impression that youre going to back the show up with actual acts of violence, since youre not prepared to do that dont carry them in the first place" ... okay so i kno i'm reading them as far more anti weapons than they were meant :) ... then d double says "my mum will cause arms'aus"
it cant be arms house cos the always ryme it with house and that would make for pretty swag bars...
theres plenty of weapon words... zugga, brat, bora, gatt, cosh... not sure which is which...

did anyone ever work out what crazy titch is saying to DR at the peak of conflict when maxwell D is going lalalala to try and cover it up? it could be mutt as in mullato or mixed race but thats hardly offensive... and DR looks quite pissed off...
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bo cat= male who performs oral sex on women [derogatory]

i think 'sweet boy' is often used in a derogatory way too- often MCs have a go at Kano for being a 'sweet boy', and in one of his lyrics kano denies being a sweet boy.
 
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descending_sort

Member
I love the increasing frequency with which I hear MCs addressing people as "blood."
The mental image of a bunch of bloods and a bunch of grime MCs meeting in confusion is great.
Maybe some Eazy-E over a garridge riddim is the bridge! East LA<->East London.
 
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Fiddy

Well-known member
Ach! said:
I always thought it had a more literal meaning: "it was armshouse up in there" - i.e. the presence of guns. Maybe I'm wrong.
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I'm with you... arms relates to weapons

Also in my opinion 'road' relates to the streets 'you're on road'... that expression in itself also holds different meanings. Some would say 'I'm on road' literally meaning they're out and about while to others 'on road' means your moving in the underworld/dealing in the hustle.
 
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Melchior

Taking History Too Far
descending_sort said:
I love the increasing frequency with which I hear MCs addressing people as "blood."
The mental image of a bunch of bloods and a bunch of grime MCs meeting in confusion is great.
Maybe some Eazy-E over a garridge riddim is the bridge! East LA<->East London.
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Surely blood comes from yardie slang, nt from bloods/crips gang stuff?
 
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Brokeman

Living Too Late
I've got to throw in "mucky" as one of my new faves. As in Escobar saying "Skepta, this beat is #$!% mucky" and the beginning of his LOTD freestyle on the Big Bars riddim.
There's something so great about how Grime slang takes words and phrases which sound schoolyard and naive and makes them hard as nails. On this same tip, I love how Jammer (?) very nasally calls for the rewind on LOTD2 while feigning bewilderment.

"Uh? Uh, re reload den?!"
 
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Keith P

draw for the drumstick
IT'S NEKKLE!
SEKKLE!

Jammer came up wth nekkle right?
still no clue what it means.

I'm fond of "swagish" and "long" as well. Funny thing is I tend to find myself slippin and using these words when talking to people online or even in person. Other day I said something to a friend like "that shits long."
They had no fucking clue what I was saying. :confused:
 
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Blackdown

nexKeysound
captain easychord said:
part of me wants to believe he's caling dizzee a "mook" (a la 'mean streets').

CT: "You're a mook"
DR: "I'm not a mook!"
D Double E: "What's a mook?"
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this has always bothered me too. is it a mut? mook? mutt?

that piece of footage on Conflict is mesmerising, especially the bit when they spill out onto the roof...
 
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boy better know

I'm Serious
I love "Are You MUUUDD?!?"

also, shabby is a good one that i don't think anyone's mentioned yet.

also, a phrase which RWD forum users will be familiar with, "I Beg You upload that, Nuttin Long" includes 2 of my favourites

I like the use of "still" as well, e.g. "yeah, that set was quite big, still."


My favourite though, is "Shower"/"Showerface".
 
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