thizz
v.— «True to the night’s theme, the two are indeed thizzin’—meaning, in hip-hop patois, that they’re high on the drug Ecstasy.» —“Feelin’ Their Thizzle” by Arch Stanton Infoshop News Mar. 20, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
We’ve talked before about dog rescue groups’ convention of naming litters of puppies according to a theme. Any idea why a recent litter of pups included Ramp, Slingshot, Kicker, and Flipper? They were all named for terms involved in pinball. This is...
Acclaimed Jamaican poet Safiya Sinclair’s sumptuous memoir, How to Say Babylon (Bookshop|Amazon) tells the story of her struggle to break free from a rigid Rastafarian upbringing, and how her discovery of poetry, both memorizing it and writing it...