Entry · catalog no. 0214
wylin
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verb · New York · 2026
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1.
Acting out of pocket — doing too much, behaving recklessly or absurdly. "You wylin" means you are out of line or out of your mind.
“You wylin if you think I'm driving to Jersey in this snow.”
Origin & Attribution
New York Black speech, on record by the late 1980s — Ice-T's "Radio Suckers" (1988). In 1989 the press twisted "wilding" into a moral-panic word during the Central Park Five case, a distortion of a word that in the community mostly meant acting up, not violence.
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The Northeast
New York · 2026
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New York
$WYLINThe 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
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Recorded here
2026
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Citations & Sources
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Radio Suckers, Ice-T — recording · 1988
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+ Cite a sourceGreen's Dictionary of Slang, wild v. — reference · 2010
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