Entry · catalog no. 6346
slime
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noun · Queens NYC / Atlanta · 2026
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1.
A close friend, a loyal brother, someone you move with — a term of trust and solidarity. Also used as a greeting.
“That's my slime, we been solid since day one.”
Origin & Attribution
Brought into hip-hop by N.O.R.E. and the Queens, New York scene around the late 1990s and early 2000s, then re-popularized nationally out of Atlanta by Young Thug and his YSL circle, who wove it through their music and gave it layered in-house meanings.
Region of origin
West
Midwest
N.East
South
The South
Queens NYC / Atlanta · 2026
Spoken by
Queens NYC / Atlanta
$SLIMEThe Record · cultural traction
▲ Rising0 yrs
ahead of the mainstream
12/100
peak cultural energy
Introduced to English by the culture — logged here before the mainstream caught on.
Cultural usage — the recordMainstream search interest
First used
2026
in the culture
Recorded here
2026
point of first record
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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N.O.R.E. / Queens hip-hop, "slime" — cultural history · late 1990s
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+ Cite a sourceYoung Thug & YSL, Atlanta usage — hip-hop · 2010s
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