Name: AMERICAN SLANG: DOPE, SAVAGE, HYPE
Uploaded: 2020-04-13T16:09:25.000Z
Duration: 3 min 21 s
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Yo, this is dope! Check it, it's the summer of slang.

Today you're learning 3 new slang words: dope, savage, and hype.

Relative clauses (Restrictive vs. nonrestrictive)

a term may only be in use for a year or two.

'Dope' is something that was around way back when I was a kid,

But a friend of mine said he heard his son use it the other day,

and then I noticed on the HBO series GIRLS,

that it was used twice in episode 1 of season 6.

It's used as an adjective to mean cool, awesome, great.

as far as marijuana, but it's still used for narcotics like heroin.

in sports to talk about athletes who take steroids,  illegally, to enhance performance.

Doping has been a big problem in American baseball.

Someone might also use the term 'bada---' you get the point.

It can also be used if you did something hard, something other people wouldn't do,

and you did it really well, making it look easy.

Like the guy who recently climbed the face of El Capitan without ropes.

If someone insults you and you come up with a great comeback,

and insult them even more than they insulted you,

You're complimenting someone on doing something really well.

I'm so hype! We're going to Disneyland tomorrow.

You're pumped, excited, you're ready to play.

Both 'dope' and 'hype' are 1-syllable words that end in P.

You may hear Americans dropping the release: dope--- dope--- dope--- dope---

But you don't have to make it a heavy P: pp— hype—  hype—

Not a strong escape of air.  It should be very light or it might be skipped.

I went over that in Summer of Slang video 2.

So click here to check out all the videos in that series.

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AMERICAN SLANG: DOPE, SAVAGE, HYPE

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awesome

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