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As a non-native speaker, I see OG and think "original grandfather", and that apparently isn't super far off, what does this mean? Sorry for the redirect.
by g82918 7y ago
As a non-native speaker, I see OG and think "original grandfather", and that apparently isn't super far off, what does this mean? Sorry for the redirect.
- VeninVidiaVicii 7y agoOriginally OG meant "original gangster", but now it has come to mean something like an early adaptation.
- dmix 7y agoIt’s means the original players or the previously dominant people/organizations which laid out the foundation.
- mendelmaleh 7y agoI just read it as "original"
- fenomas 7y agoI've read a number of times over the years that OG was 80s slang for "old guy" (or "an old G"), and that the 90s Ice T song was a play on the older usage. Don't know if there are any citations though.
- nvrspyx 7y agoWhile it started as an acronym for "original gangster", it's now used as simply "original".
- cesarb 7y agoI always read OG as "old guard", a literal translation of the Portuguese term "velha guarda", which has a similar meaning (the oldest people at a Samba school, something like "seniors"). Since I've grown with Samba, OG = old guard = velha guarda was an intuitive translation, I never though of looking for a different expansion.