the vapors

noun

Published on April 10, 2016, 6:48 a.m.

a notional infection causing obsequious behavior;

a desire to suck up

Collocates bitch⁸, hater⁴, paper⁴, hoe³, front², -ass, all about, baby mama, cat, cheese, dope-boy, fly, head, honey, hood, it's all good, mail, sleep on, sucker, tall, tax, thug

Derivatives the vapes

Etymology perhaps from the earlier standard-English "vapors": sudden faintness, hysteria, or depression

Timeline

1988-02-23 Biz Markie "Vapors" [Goin' Off]
She'd be beggin' please, dyin' for the day to get skeezed, she caught the vapors
1988-09-13 Ice-T "Personal" [Power]
See me at a jam and catch vapors
1989-02-07 2 Live Crew "You Got Larceny" [As Nasty As They Wanna Be]
You ain't got the vapors, you got larceny

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