Opposition. In drill and street slang, your enemies or rival crew.
He was spotted on the opps block, big mistake.
Add your own interpretation of "opps".
Slang from Black American Vernacular English (AAVE), hip-hop, drag and ballroom culture, the Caribbean, and NYC street vocabulary. The single largest source of new mainstream English slang in living memory.
See all Black culture & AAVE slang on Slangora.
Browse all slang words starting with O.
Short for "opposition" — an enemy or rival. Originally drill and Chicago hip-hop; standard hip-hop slang now.
An opponent; an enemy; the opposition.
Short for "opposition research" — the campaign-staffer tradecraft of digging up damaging information about political opponents. Standard shorthand in US political-Twitter / Bluesky discourse since at least the late 2000s. Wider sports use: in British football, "the oppo" = the opposing team ("watching the oppo on tape this week"). Context disambiguates.
(MLE, slang) Characteristic of an opp; inimical, hostile.
No comments yet — say something.
Any person on unfriendly terms.