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- Etymology: Dope - English Language & Usage Stack ExchangeThe OED itself does not explicitly comment on how the drug-related sense of "dope" developed, but the way in which the senses are organised implies a different theory: sense 3a (1851) is a "simpleton" or "fool" (or a person under the influence of drugs, with an 1866 quote describing a "dozened" "dope", where "dozened" means stupefied or ...
- etymology - English Language & Usage Stack ExchangeTo some extent, the word appears to be interchangeable with dope. One thing that seems odd to me is that it often seems to occur next to the word "fam." I'm wondering what the relevance of this connection is. Examples of "fire" This song is so fire. My goodness. Twitter; I play this tune more than once each day. The whole Ep is fire!!! Twitter
- The meaning of "What's she gonna look like with a chimney on her"From the Straight Dope Message Board: That's a line from Urban Discharge's 1996 release "Drop A House (On That Bitch)", so they're basically saying, "This woman's a real witch...wonder what she's gonna look like with a house on her?" Like the Wizard of Oz.
- Where did the phrase "batsh*t crazy" come from?There's anecdotal evidence scattered around the internet, like in this Straight Dope Message Board discussion, that definition #1 was in common use in the US military during the 1950s. Someone else points out there that Hunter S. Thompson may have picked up the term in the Air Force, from which he was discharged in 1958.
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