NP/NN: Dope

[Tim Strzechowski]

It's OK to tell your wife she looks "phat" in her tight dress. No one can blame you for liking "dead presidents." And if you want to give "props" to a "gangsta," you better be "down" with the "jam."

And asking your kid for the "411" on what's "dope" isn't bad parenting; it simply means that you want the inside information on what's excellent.

Confused?

Hip-hop words have muscled their way into the recently published 11th edition of the Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary. [...]

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/sns-othernews-dictionary-sfl,1,6260956.story?coll=chi-homepagenews2-utl



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