Entry · catalog no. 6213

junt

/ /dʒʌnt/ /JUHNT

noun · Memphis · 1990s

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A thing; a stand-in noun for almost anything — an object, a place, a person.

“Pass me that junt right there — this junt go hard.”

Origin & Attribution

Memphis. A local cousin of joint — the same reshaping that gave Philadelphia its jawn — used as an all-purpose noun. Carried in Memphis rap from the Three 6 Mafia era and pushed back into the national ear by GloRilla, who has spent interviews teaching outsiders how to use it.

1990s

Current in Memphis speech and rap in the Three 6 Mafia era

2023

GloRilla teaches junt in an MTV Push feature on Memphis slang

Region of origin

West

Midwest

N.East

South

The South

Memphis · 1990s

Spoken by

Memphis, Tennessee

$JUNTThe Record · cultural traction

▲ Rising

31 yrs

ahead of the mainstream

55/100

peak cultural energy

Introduced to English by the culture — logged here before the mainstream caught on.

Cultural usage — the recordMainstream search interest

First used

1995

in the culture

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

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New Orleans, LA

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Houston, TX

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Citations & Sources

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GloRilla, MTV Push — Memphis slang feature · 2023

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Carried in Memphis rap from the Three 6 Mafia era — corpus · 1990s

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