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Wait... El-Erian said "re-up". When did this urban/inner-city drug culture term become mainstream? (for the etymology geeks here, El-Erian means "of the aryan
by hackaflocka 11y ago
Wait... El-Erian said "re-up".
When did this urban/inner-city drug culture term become mainstream?
(for the etymology geeks here, El-Erian means "of the aryans", no not the nazi aryans, the original aryans)
- DevX101 11y agoThe Wire
- hackaflocka 11y agoAh -- that would explain it. I never watched that show myself.
- sremani 11y agomost def
- ghaff 11y agoI actually wasn't aware of it being either street slang or associated with The Wire. It seemed a pretty familiar term to me. A few different online sources suggest it started out as military slang to mean "re-enlist."
- greenyoda 11y agoAnd the military usage goes back to the early 1900s: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/re-up http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/re-up
- sremani 11y agoInteresting note, The earliest mentions of Rig Veda gods found thus far were not in India but in Northern Syria.
- hackaflocka 11y agoThere's a theory that "devi" and "devil" are connected. That the devis of the so-called pagans became the devils post christian conversion.
- zht 11y ago? I remember watching the episode of Simpsons where the Navy produced a series of music videos with subliminal messaging back when it first came out (apparently in 2001). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Kids_on_the_Blecch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Kids_on_the_Blecch Re-up as a term to re-enlist or re-sign up has been around for at least 15 years.
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- hackaflocka 11y agoInteresting. I first heard of this term when Nicki Minaj came out with "The Re-up."