Entry · catalog no. 1601
OD
/ /oʊ ˈdi/ /oh-DEE
adv. · New York City · 2000s
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1.
Excessively; over the top. As a verb, to overdo or take something too far. From 'overdose,' widened to any kind of too-much.
“He was hyping me up OD.”
Origin & Attribution
New York City AAVE, out of the early 2000s, from 'overdose' stretched to mean overdoing anything — a reaction, an outfit, an attitude. Documented in New York speech and online ('odee' appears on Twitter by 2008) before TikTok explainers carried it national around 2020. A New York Black coinage, part of the same family as 'deadass' and 'buggin.'
early 2000s
Current in NYC speech
2008
'odee' attested on Twitter
c. 2020
Spreads nationally through TikTok
Region of origin
West
Midwest
N.East
South
Nationwide
New York City · 2000s
Spoken by
New York City Black and Latino speakers
$ODThe Record · cultural traction
▲ Rising21 yrs
ahead of the mainstream
66/100
peak cultural energy
Introduced to English by the culture — logged here before the mainstream caught on.
Cultural usage — the recordMainstream search interest
First used
2005
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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Citations & Sources
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Documented NYC usage; 'odee' on Twitter — 2008
reference · cited
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+ Cite a sourceNew York City AAVE, oral attestation
oral history
See also