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| 2004-12-15 - Weird News Wireless Flash News "Crack Ho" and "Hoochie" Added To Oxford Dictionary | ||
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New York, NY -- Hip hop-based words have entered the vernacular of many English speakers and now they have found their way into a prestigious dictionary. More than 2,000 new and revised word entries have been added to the online edition of The Oxford English Dictionary and a small contingent of them come from the P. Diddy and Eminem arena. For example, the word "benjamin," meaning "a one-hundred dollar bill" and more generally, "large sums of money" made its way onto the list. Other hip-hop words that were added: -- "Hoochie," which means "a young woman who is promiscuous or who dresses or behaves in a sexually provocative or overtly seductive manner." -- "Thugged out" is defined as "resembling a thug in dress or behavior, tough-looking." -- And finally, the dictionary editors have added "crack ho," which is defined as "a prostitute addicted to crack cocaine." Dictionary spokesman Jesse Shiedlowe says he expects a lot more hip-hop words to be added in future editions of the dictionary as long as the music genre continues to stay popular.
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