7:30

adjective

Published on April 10, 2016, 5:20 a.m.

crazy, unstable

Categories Numbers

Collocates 30-30, 45, 9, block, flow, homie, straight up and down, wodie, yo, -ass, cat, clip, thug, whip

Domains Self Description

Etymology origin uncertain; perhaps from the time of a meds dosage or a shift-change; perhaps relating to the angle of clock hands at 7:30 being crooked; perhaps referring to a code in NYC jails marking out an unstable inmate

Synonyms 5150, buck, loc'd out, off the meat rack

Related concepts wild, wild out

Rhymes dirty⁴, Ol' Dirty, worried, birdy

Timeline

1994-12-06 Black Sheep "B.B.S." feat. Emage [Non-Fiction]
Straight up and down, you'll say that "Them's the niggas 7:30"
1995-08-22 Twinz "Sorry I Kept You" [Conversation]
7:30, we in motion, bouncin up the block, and you know it don't stop, won't stop, can't stop
1996-07-30 A Tribe Called Quest "Stressed Out" feat. Faith Evans [Beats, Rhymes & Life]
These money-hungry niggaz is seven thirty

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