Tagged NYC

The NYC tag covers slang minted in or strongly associated with New York City: the five-borough vocabularies that travel up through hip-hop, drill, and Twitter into wider US usage, usually with a one-to-three-year lag. The tag overlaps with AAVE (especially for Harlem and Brooklyn coinages), Hip-hop, and the Caribbean (Queens and Brooklyn West Indian diaspora). Notable: yerrr, mad, bodega, jake, dolo, hella (originating West Coast but rephrased in NYC speech), grimy. NYC English sociolinguistic prestige in 2020s rap means a New York phrase often becomes a national phrase within a year of the first hit single using it.