AAVE slang for an attractive woman — specifically one with a warm, smooth appeal that the honey metaphor captures perfectly. Sweet, desirable, effortlessly appealing. In some usages it refers particularly to a light-skinned Black woman, reflecting colorism-inflected language within AAVE. The term shows up in hip-hop lyrics and urban vernacular from the 1990s onward, used to compliment someone's appearance with that smooth, flowing energy the phrase carries.
The whole track was dedicated to the honey dip he kept seeing at the coffee shop every morning.
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(AAVE) An attractive woman.
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(AAVE) A light-skinned black woman.
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Regional slang from around the English-speaking world — British, Australian, Irish, Caribbean, Nigerian, Filipino, AAVE, and the hyphenated-English dialects that make the internet sound local.
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