skraight
English
[edit]Adjective
[edit]skraight (comparative more skraight, superlative most skraight)
- Pronunciation spelling of straight, representing African-American Vernacular English.
- 2006, Eric Jerome Dickey, Chasing Destiny, Waterville, Me.: Thorndike Press, →ISBN, page 464:
- You ain't legit. I'm a skraight-up hustler. You ain't got no street cred with me.
- 2013 April 17, Jon Moy, “The 10 Hottest Skyscrapers In The Game Right Now”, in Complex[1], New York, N.Y.: Complex Networks, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-03-21:
- The Mode Gakuen Cocoon Tower is dedicated solely to education. Yup, 669 ft. of skraight learning.
- 2013 March 18, Drew Millard, “The Night the Bottom Fell Out from Under the Rap Internet”, in VICE[2], archived from the original on 2022-08-18:
- The only level head throughout the entire affair seems to have belonged to T.I., who sagely tweeted, "Just holla'd @my Lil bruh Tunechi...& he skraight! TMZ some fuck-niggaz for reporting that hoe-ass-shit!!! That man daughter is like mines… That shit surely got his mama hurtin,his kids hurtin,& he got true to da game patnas like me & Othas who ready to RIDE bout all da fuck shit."
- 2013 June 25, Noire [pseudonym], Dirty Rotten Liar, New York, N.Y.: Kensington Publishing Corp., →ISBN, page 230:
- Everybody woulda got the memo that the great Mrs. Domino's rich ass ain't nothin but a jump-off, out there getting'[sic] smutted on the side! Damn skraight!