throw them bows

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English

Etymology

From a song released in 2000; see citation below.

Verb

throw them bows (third-person singular simple present throws them bows, present participle throwing them bows or throwin' them bows, simple past threw them bows, past participle thrown them bows)

  1. (African-American Vernacular) To throw one's elbows around; to strike people with one's elbows.
    • 2000, Ludacris, Southern Hospitality (song):
      Oh, how I love these pretty ass hoes
      Pretty ass, high class, anything goes
      Catch 'em in the club throwing pretty ass bows [] If you a pimp and you know you don't love them hoes
      When you get on the floor (nigga, throw them bows)
    • 2004, Eric Jerome Dickey, Thieves' Paradise:
      She was smiling like a queen and dancing her ass off, moving like an exotic dancer and throwing them bows until the lights came on at one-thirty for last call.
    • 2018, Abiegail Rose, The Carter Effect, pages 5–6:
      The footage showed Solange and Jay-Z getting into an argument and then Solange getting her Houston, TX on and throwing them bows as she wildly hit and kicked him, before being separated by what appeared to be security and Beyoncé.