Spoken Word is poetry intended for onstage performance, rather than exclusively designed for the page. While often associated with hip-hop culture, it also has strong ties to storytelling, modern poetry, post-modern performance, and monologue theatre, as well as jazz, blues, and folk music.
Due to its immediacy and direct rapport with its audience, this type of poetry often contains references to current events and issues relevant to a contemporary audience.
At its best, spoken word is a powerful, high-energy form of expression that attracts artists and audiences of all ages from a wide range of disciplines and socio-cultural backgrounds.
That spoken word artist is a cunning linguist.
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Word Up
1. A greeting.
2. Another way to say, Yeah! or Damn Right!
3. A song by the band Cameo. The song came out in 1986.
4. A cover by Korn of the song previously mentioned.
1. Hey, Word up man?
2. Word up!
3. Word up! Everybody say, we're about to go down and you know just what to do.
4. Wave your hands in the air like you just don't care.
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to keep quiet about something; my lips are sealed.
mum means mmmmmm (the sound made when putting your lips together)
came from Shakespeare quote:
"Seal up your lips and give no words but mum."
person 1: "Please don't tell anyone about my affair."
person 2: "Don't worry i won't. Mums the word."
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1. When words won't come when you want them to
2. You talk nonstop, but fail to convey your thoughts/emotions effectively
3. Being so shocked that you cannot think of an adequate word to respond to/with
"I can't believe you got lost - how did you do it! Nobody ever loses their way around here. I am lost for words!"
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When the popular app, "Words with Friends" becomes a game of malicious intent, and in turn results in the integrity of the game being soiled by Google searches. Such suspicion will lead to the inevitable dissolution of the friendship.
Jay- "Yesterday our game of 'Words with Friends' became 'Words with Enemies' when John used the word amitive to spell four other words."
Tommy-"What a scrub."
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The uncontrollable act of stating valid facts at an often inopportune time in conversation. Usually also in the wrong "Tone."
Q. Why don't you love me anymore?
A. I just have some problems to work out.
Q. Are you sure that is the real reason?
Word Vomit A. Because, you slept with my Brother. Happy Now?
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If ur trying to get at a chick and she texts u one word.
You: Hey gurlll!
Her: hey
you: what you doing tonight?
Her: nothing
You: oh, u wanna do something with me?
Her: uhmmmm. maybe.
You: Man this bitch keeps one-wording me.
Ur friend: eh, shes not that into you dude.
You: wtf?
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