Entry · catalog no. 4307
tippin
/ /ˈtɪp.ɪn/ /TIP-in
verb · Houston, Texas · 2000s
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1.
Cruising slow and easy in a customized car — rolling deliberately low on wire wheels, letting the neighborhood see you. In Houston, tippin is the pace of the slab: unhurried, deep in the sound, the opposite of rushing.
“We spent the whole night just tippin down Main, no place to be.”
Origin & Attribution
Houston, Texas, out of the Black slab and chopped-and-screwed car culture of the 1990s. Mike Jones, Slim Thug, and Paul Wall carried it national on "Still Tippin'" (2004) — "tippin on four fours, wrapped in four Vogues" — but the practice and the word rode Houston streets long before the record.
1990s
Slab and screw culture takes shape in Houston
2004
"Still Tippin'" breaks nationally
Region of origin
West
Midwest
N.East
South
The South
Houston, Texas · 2000s
Spoken by
Houston Black speakers; slab culture
$TIPPINThe Record · cultural traction
▲ Steady31 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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Citations & Sources
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Mike Jones ft. Slim Thug & Paul Wall, "Still Tippin'"
2004
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+ Cite a sourceDJ Screw and the Screwed Up Click, Houston
1990s
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