bootsy

bootsy

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈbutsi/

Adjective

bootsy

1. (African American Vernacular) Bad, not good; (by extension) ugly or crazy.
   • 2009, Peter Leonard, Trust Me: A Novel →ISBN, page 76:

     "You hear his new one Tha Carter III? Sixteen cuts, they all good. Not one of 'em bootsy." Skinny Pimp said, “Fifty's the bigga nigga. Boy got some knock."

   • For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:bootsy.

Further reading

• Alonzo Westbrook, Hip Hoptionary: The Dictionary of Hip Hop Terminology (2002, →ISBN (lists two senses, "bad, not good" and "crazy")