Entry · catalog no. 0158
baddie
/ ˈbædi /BAD-ee
noun · AAVE / hip-hop · 2010s
✓ Verified
1.
A woman who is attractive, confident, and impeccably styled; self-possessed.
“She pulled up looking like a whole baddie.”
Origin & Attribution
Feminized from bad in the sense of excellent or striking that’s long been ours (see bad). Sharpened in hip-hop and Black social media through the 2010s.
Region of origin
West
Midwest
N.East
South
Nationwide / diaspora
AAVE / hip-hop · 2010s
Spoken by
Black women; hip-hop
$BADDIEThe Record · cultural traction
▲ Peaked5 yrs
ahead of the mainstream
76/100
peak cultural energy
Introduced to English by the culture — logged here before the mainstream caught on.
Cultural usage — the recordMainstream search interest
First used
2013
in the culture
Recorded here
2024
point of first record
Mainstream crossover
2018
search interest spikes
Cultural energy indexed from documented usage, search interest, and citation frequency. The recorded date is the archive’s permanent point of record.
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By region — how it actually sounds
@auntiereg
Atlanta, GA
@deltasoul
Memphis, TN
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