From my last post:

* props=proper respect=public acknowledgements

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It just occurred to me-did the term "hook-up" come from "hooker"{meaning prostitute}??

I still think that "off the hook" comes from "off the chain" since the latter term was used first {if 'latter' means the chain saying-I always get 'former' and 'latter' mixed up.

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Hey, Matt_R , thanks for your post, but can ya help a sistah out?
I know that "the Internet is full of synonyms", but what are the meanings of:

own
pwn
0wn
pwnsauce
pwnd
pwndxorz

???

I know "LOL" means "lots of laughs" and "ROFL" means "rolling on the floor laughing". But I didn't know about these being used as prefixes and suffixes.

Thanks, I guess I need to get around [the Internet] more.

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Special thanks to Sorcha for helping to get this thread going. I'm learning alot from your list, girl friend.

Sorcha, please let me add a bit of background to the "homies" term:

"Homies" {"homeboy"; "homegirl"} started out meaning a person from your "hood" {neighborhood}. It later expanded into a person who grew up in the same city/town you did {or the area near that city/town}. And it also can mean a person who lives in the same city {area}that you live in now.

I suppose if I went overseas {to another country} any 'UnitedStater' would be my "homie". TSo you could say that that term "homie" is relative.

Get it? "Relative" meaning 'having different meanings'. Not relative meaning "being your kin".

Ha! Ha!

[Someone here just mentioned the other day that I haven't got a sense or humor {well, actually the poster said 'humour'}. But if that poster had said that my sense of humor is kinda strange, I woulda agreed with her. But since she doesn't know me, maybe she wasn't aware of that. But, I bet some of you figured that out. Not that this has anything to do with the price of beans in Boston. I'm just sayin.]