Adjective: Someone who is from an inner city and expresses the essence of urban culture. Not to be confused with ghetto because a person can be hood but not ghetto at all. Describing a person as 'hood" can be a positive compliment but describing someone as ghetto is usually derogatory. Many people that are "hood" are successful, classy individuals who not only survived the perils of the inner city but love their hometown and have a desire to make it better for everyone there. Whereas people described as ghetto are usually poor, trashy and uncouth. Back in the day, many "ghetto" people lived in the projects. "Hood" describes people from the hood who were raised with the hip hop era but are not and have never been ghetto. Many grew up in middle class households in the hood. They are home boys and home girls.
Dude is so hood. Did you peep his style?
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Derived from "neighborhood". An area which one lives/lived/ or is in
Ima go visit my hood.
i need to raise up out my hood
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1. The ghetto.
2. Someone who is from the ghetto.
3. Someone who acts like they are from the ghetto.
Other Slang: Hoodlum, Gangsta, Thug, Nigga, Pimp, Street-rat, Street Urchin, etc.
4. The foreskin of a penis.
5. Covering of the clitoris.
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Attatched to sweatshirts...Often pulled over the head when the weather is cold or rainy.
Put your hood on, Little Timmy, it's cold outside.
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A shortened term for neighborhood
Ayo Jack let's go kill a few slobs in the hood.
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n.
1. Derived from the word neighborhood. Usually refers to an undesirable area: gangsters are from the βhoodβ; wankstas are from the suburbs.
2. A district or area with distinctive characteristics: a neighborhood of fine homes; an ethnic hood.
3. The area above a womanβs vagina: that cluck gots her hood pierced.
"Cuz the boyz n tha hood are always hard
You come talkin that trash we'll pull your card
Knowin nothin in life but to be legit
Don't quote me boy, cuz I ain't sayin shit"
-Eazy E
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