type shit
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]- (in combination, vulgar, chiefly African-American Vernacular) Something resembling or characteristic of a given thing, person, or situation.
- That's some serial killer type shit.
- 1998, Danny Hoch, “Jails, Hospitals & Hip-Hop”, in American Theatre[1], volume 15, page 44:
- That’s why my new album, Where Is the Joy, is on some new, improved, extra-ill, enlightened, epiphany-type shit, and that’s all I got to say.
- 2004 April 4, Elizabeth Kolbert, “Dumbassification”, in The New Yorker[2]:
- “I think talk radio from a liberal standpoint means that you can actually touch more souls and be more sensitive to a wider demographic, instead of saying, ‘We’re going to turn America into a bonfire pep rally, and if anybody doesn’t like that we’re going to bomb them, too,’” Chuck D said. “I mean, what the fuck is that about? That’s some 1944, ‘Sands of Iwo Jima,’ John Wayne, I’m-mad-at-everybody-else-because-some-black-guy-took-my-girlfriend-type shit.”
- 2022 October 13, Mach-Hommy, Andre Gee, “Don’t Call Mach-Hommy ‘Reclusive’”, in Rolling Stone[3]:
- That’s like the apex. That’s when it’s like, “Damn.” All the leaves actually done fell and gone type shit. That’s the deep freeze.
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Interjection
[edit]- (slang, vulgar, chiefly African-American Vernacular) An expression of agreement or approval.
- 2024 March 13, @odellthedon, Twitter[4], archived from the original on 18 August 2024:
- Yh type shit but im giving all i CAN like i couldnt possibly give more this is a girl id want to have my kids and im giving her 100% of what i have left even if it isnt really 100% cah i cant
- 2024 July 14, “Emma B (Rundown Balla)”, in Reddit[5], r/Bronxghanistan, archived from the original on 18 August 2024:
- Yeah type shit but yk how shit is nowadays niggas jack anything at any age, plus the bitch looked like a dyke😭 I'll see if I could find the flick of her