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Pronunciation
Adjective
bootsy
- (African-American Vernacular) Bad, not good; (by extension) ugly or crazy.
2009, Peter Leonard, Trust Me: A Novel, →ISBN, page 76:"You hear his new one Tha Carter III? Sixteen cuts, they all good. Not one of 'em bootsy." Skinny Pimp said, “Fifty's the bigga nigga. Boy got some knock."
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Further reading
- Alonzo Westbrook, Hip Hoptionary: The Dictionary of Hip Hop Terminology (2002, →ISBN (lists two senses, "bad, not good" and "crazy")