bitch slap, pimp slap
Have heard the former a good deal lately, the latter I only saw in a political blog recently. Are these terms from some TV show or other? When did they arrive on the scene? Both sound to me like black...
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Google Groups has both back to 1991. "Bitch slap" is in a Guns 'n Roses lyric from that year."Pimp slap" is definitely black American slang. I'm not sure if "bitch slap" is purely black slang or...
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Cassell says:bitch slap v. [1990s] (US black) for a woman to hit, occas. to harangue, her male partner.
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Cassell says:bitch slap v. [1990s] (US black) for a woman to hit, occas. to harangue, her male partner. I would disagree with Cassell as does the NA editor of the OED in the article quoted below. A...
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A bitch slap is the same as a pimp slapThat was my understanding as well. I don't know whether Cassell got it wrong or whether the meaning has evolved.
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I think the term has evolved some from its original meaning. It is more general now than simply a pimp-prostitute thing. I hear more women and teenage girls using the term today than males, in the...
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The last comment fits what I heard best, I heard this "bitch slap" from my quite respectable middle aged female bridge partner, talking about wanting to "bitch slap" some obnoxious person, the "pimp...
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I'll toss two cents into the ring. In my across-the-tracks-from-the-barrio neighborhood, a "bitch" is anyone (male or female) that you can dominate. To bitch slap someone is to define this...
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That's right on, IMO, Happy. I think that is the direction inwhich the term has evolved. As I said, the term is much more inclusive than it was in the beginning.
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