The Glossary

Twenty words, defined as they are actually used

Nothing under that.

Several of these are much older than the feeds that spread them — ate, it’s giving, no cap and bussin’ all come out of Black American speech, and in the ballroom cases out of Black queer speech specifically, decades before any of it reached a general audience. Where that is the case the note says so. Where an origin is genuinely disputed, the note says that instead of picking one.

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