Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
A subgenre of hip-hop music and dancing associated with the San Francisco Bay Area.
adj
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryRambunctious, loud, crazy, dangerous, irrational, and outrageous in behavior. · Of or relating to the hyphy music subgenre or culture.
Probably an alteration of hype or hyper. American rapper Keak da Sneak is sometimes credited as coining the word in the 1990s, but no evidence exists to support this and the term is first attested in 2002.
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