Rural Dictionary

Educated Hood sentence

A Educated Hood Sentence: is when you can use a high level vocabulary word and add a slang Hood word in the same sentence or switching the slang word out for a high level vocabulary word.

Educated Hood Sentence Examples

" I need an Explanation foreal!"

" Damm that ass is Stupendous!"
" Hey fam let's get Elevated "

by Azul Rizada November 7, 2016

one-word-sentences

when one word sufficiently meets the requirement of a sentence- having a subject and a verb

Would you like to get some dinner?
Let's.

verb= let
subject= us

GO!

verb= go
subject= you (implied)

I think it's brilliant that you used so many one-word-sentences in your poem.

by Allen Wilson February 7, 2008

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garden path sentence

A sentence that when read, causes unintentional confusion because the reader thinks it means one thing when actual meaning is different from reader's said meaning.

James: I'll never get this report on "Why English is butchered" done.

Robert: James, time flies like arrows, fruit flies like bananas.

James: Will you stop using that gibberish?, Everybody knows that neither fruit nor bananas fly.

Robert: For someone who's a an English major, you know nothing about garden path sentences.

James: I should've known.

by fball_jones June 30, 2011

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Who's the 'I' in that sentence?

figure of speech, a response expressing genuine or mock disbelief toward something admitted by the previous speaker

Felix: "I can''t meet up; I've got plans to watch Glee with my girlfriend."

Ben: "Who's the 'I' in that sentence?"

Felix: "Who's the...uh...me...it's me."

Ben: "Really?"

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Dude: "I think I wanna volunteer in New Orleans this spring break."

Bro: "Who's the 'I' in that sentence?"

Dude: "You're right. We should just get drunk in Mexico again."

by pwinz May 5, 2010

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