Entry · catalog no. 4231
siced
/ /saɪst/ /SYST
adjective · DMV · 2000s
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1.
Excited and hyped, ready to go.
“I'm siced for the cookout this weekend.”
2.
To instigate or blow a situation out of proportion.
“He wasn't even mad till his boys siced it up.”
Origin & Attribution
Washington, DC and the wider DMV, most likely worn down from "excited" or "psyched." It runs two ways — being hyped yourself, or hyping a situation past its size. It's a marker of the District's home speech, carried in the same go-go-shaped current as jont and bama.
2000s
Common DMV term for hyped/excited
2010s
Documented in folklore archives and DC slang guides
today
Still a marker of home-grown DC speech
Region of origin
West
Midwest
N.East
South
Nationwide
DMV · 2000s
Spoken by
Black Washington, DC (DMV)
$SICEDThe Record · cultural traction
▲ Steady26 yrs
ahead of the mainstream
42/100
peak cultural energy
Introduced to English by the culture — logged here before the mainstream caught on.
Cultural usage — the recordMainstream search interest
First used
2000
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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USC Digital Folklore Archives — "Common DMV Slang: Sice" — documented oral history
researched
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+ Cite a sourceCulture Trip — "DMV Slang: Washington, D.C. Area Phrases" — article
researched
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