You're Only As Old As Your Slang
Ridin Dirty
It’s funny how age creeps up on you. While watching Q Wreck in a YouTube video the other night it became glaringly obvious that my youth vanished long ago with Milli Vanilli.
The moment Q Wreck pronounced, “I ain’t getting caught riding dirty,” my age began to rival that of a Roman statue.
What does riding dirty mean? I made this inquiry the first order of business on my morning walk with my girlfriends, but let’s face it...they’re as old as me. Poor things. They had good close guesses, but no one knew for certain. And none of them could say they had ever used the phrase nor heard it in play.
My last resort was the link to all things young and hip, the Urban Dictionary. Forget about calling it a reference site, the Urban Dictionary is tantamount to the fountain of youth. This linguistic guide does for your speech what Botox does for your face and is arguably just as essential if you want to appear young. Let’s face it, if you speak like you have one foot in the grave it doesn’t matter how much cosmetic surgery you’ve undergone, your use and understanding of modern day slang terms--or lack thereof--makes your age as obvious as the nose on your face.
And for those of you who want to know...
Riding (or Ridin) Dirty
1. Driving in an automobile while having at least a felony charge worth of illegal drugs and or unregistered firearms with you.
2. The act of driving with a illegal weapon or drugs. First coined by Houston Rap group U.G.K.(Bun B and Pimp C) in a song "ridin dirty"
3. Getting caught by the police with contraband, or in urban slang, gettin caught by da po po, wid some of dat dro dro.
When the sirens went off, all i could do was floor it cuz I was riding dirty like a muafuca. "Somebody told the laws that Bun was the one ridin dirty."
And there you have it folks...I mean “peeps.”
Au revoir for now...n
It’s funny how age creeps up on you. While watching Q Wreck in a YouTube video the other night it became glaringly obvious that my youth vanished long ago with Milli Vanilli.
The moment Q Wreck pronounced, “I ain’t getting caught riding dirty,” my age began to rival that of a Roman statue.
What does riding dirty mean? I made this inquiry the first order of business on my morning walk with my girlfriends, but let’s face it...they’re as old as me. Poor things. They had good close guesses, but no one knew for certain. And none of them could say they had ever used the phrase nor heard it in play.
My last resort was the link to all things young and hip, the Urban Dictionary. Forget about calling it a reference site, the Urban Dictionary is tantamount to the fountain of youth. This linguistic guide does for your speech what Botox does for your face and is arguably just as essential if you want to appear young. Let’s face it, if you speak like you have one foot in the grave it doesn’t matter how much cosmetic surgery you’ve undergone, your use and understanding of modern day slang terms--or lack thereof--makes your age as obvious as the nose on your face.
And for those of you who want to know...
Riding (or Ridin) Dirty
1. Driving in an automobile while having at least a felony charge worth of illegal drugs and or unregistered firearms with you.
2. The act of driving with a illegal weapon or drugs. First coined by Houston Rap group U.G.K.(Bun B and Pimp C) in a song "ridin dirty"
3. Getting caught by the police with contraband, or in urban slang, gettin caught by da po po, wid some of dat dro dro.
When the sirens went off, all i could do was floor it cuz I was riding dirty like a muafuca. "Somebody told the laws that Bun was the one ridin dirty."
And there you have it folks...I mean “peeps.”
Au revoir for now...n
